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Not my site but the popular 18 words game posted here a while back has released a 9 words version I much prefer!

Nice idea. How are you selecting the headlines to use?

Fun! I like how the puzzle naturally gets easier as you solve it. How do you decide which words to include?

Love the shifty eyes. Nice work!

This is cool but please remove the fly buzzing noise!

Nice twist on boggle. Needs dark mode for me or will start to strain the eyes.

Actually on a second look the wordlist has 279,498 words. I think it was only partially loaded when I first checked.

That bumps the math to log₂(279,498) ≈ 18.1, so 19 guesses in the worst case and about 18 on average with perfect play

Interesting.

The word list / dictionary provided by the site only had around 170k lines so it must not be a complete version.

I would guess they have excluded some obscure words. I can't see anywhere in the information which dictionary is used.

Some interesting math here.

You’ve got ~170k possible words and a pure higher/lower signal, so with perfect play it’s just binary search. Number the words 1 to 170k, guess the middle, then keep halving the range. In binary terms, each guess is basically telling you whether the next bit is 0 or 1.

Since log₂(170,000) ≈ 17.4, you need at most 18 guesses. On average it’s a bit less: about half the words take 18 guesses, a quarter take 17, an eighth take 16, etc. So the expected number of guesses works out to 17.

All of that assumes you know the exact ordering of the dictionary, of course. Once you don’t, it stops being optimal and starts being human. That’s where the difficulty actually comes from.

Inspired by wafflegame.net

Inspired by the Waffle word game (https://wafflegame.net/) I built a math version :)

Good point, thank you - I'll have a think about how to make it less annoying.

Re: the timer, whoops! I'll fix that asap.

Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for taking the time to give me feedback :)

As a crossword lover, I’ve toyed with the idea of making a digital-first word game that combines clues to find hidden answers with linked letters.

This take allows for other features not present in traditional crosswords to be introduced, for example, different levels of difficulty (i.e. more letters paired = easier and viceversa) or having more flexibility when it comes to clue-making.

This is my first version, hope you like it!

Love it! I would like the possibility to keep trying when I fail.

Hey! I built a clone of wordle where answers are names as a small fun side project for name lovers like me. Enjoy :)

I used to love magic squares when I was a (nerdy) kid so I’ve now built a little fun game around them. Enjoy!

Thank you so much!

Look at that!

I have a (malfunctioning) beep but it doesn't work on mobile right now, I have to look into it. If you tried on desktop and it didn't work for you could you share what browser you used?

(Should be fixed now!)

Thanks for letting me know (and so happy that you'll be back)! I'll do more responsiveness fixes tomorrow as I based my media queries based on responsive testing in the chrome console and it definitely needs some work

Thanks! I had a couple of things implemented to avoid this but they haven't worked in mobile (in desktop it behaves as expected AFAIK, not turning off the screen while in the routine). Do you mind sharing your OS and browser?

Yep I definitely need to work on that transition (I'm the type of person that spaces out easily and would lose track of whether I'm in a break or exercise). I'll play around with a couple of ideas and hopefully resolve it tomorrow