Hi HN —Tidy Baby is a new game made by me and Wyna Liu (of NYT Connections!) that is inspired by the legendary card-based game SET that we assume many of you love (we too love SET).In SET, you’ve got four dimensions: shape, number, color, and shading, each with three variants.In Tidy Baby you only have to deal with three dimensions:- word length (3, 4, or 5 letters) - part of speech (noun,...
Here's a very bad example I just made of one way you might use emoji to make inter-clue references:
https://suburbs.bracket.city/5Q1O24
too confusing/unsatisfying right now -- but I made the builder partly so that people would experiment...I bet someone will figure out something good!
Hi HN —Bracket City is the word puzzle game I made earlier this year and (in part thanks to this community, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43622719) managed to license to the Atlantic in April.The game has been growing a lot and I wanted to share the latest: a tool that lets anyone make a Bracket City puzzle — specifically a “Bracket Suburb”!I made this tool to help me construct...
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/leascope/id6608979884
This app is designed to answer my wife’s question “what country would we hit if we went straight” (generally posed while pointing)Two additional features:1. Load up historical maps from different years (right now 1 BC, 700 AD, 1000 AD, 1300 AD, 1800 AD, 1900 AD) and see what you would hit if you had a time machine AND you went in the direction your phone is pointing2. Tap a country/territory...
The game will stay free to play (and not require logging in). Also, I'm still making all the puzzles!
HN provided the first real infusion of players that weren't my mom's friends. So thanks everyone.
FWIW The Atlantic's team is amazing and got this live exactly 2 weeks from when we signed the deal.
This happened quick and I feel very lucky. The HN community of solvers keeps me honest with much helpful technical and editorial feedback. I love it all -- here or at [email protected]
T[Tom who befriended a volleyball] HN
PS my original post! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43160542
but I hear you!
Hi hn -I co-own a diner where I co-host a puzzle night that is kind of like a diner-themed escape room.At the last one, I made a puzzle that was crossword-like clues nested in brackets. People at the diner seemed to like it, so I resolved to make it a real game and Bracket City was born: https://bracket.city.I love crosswords, so it's been fun to write crossword-like clues:[it contains MSG]as...