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Re:Ask HN: What games do you religiously play on your phone browser?
on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @04:34AM (#49989905)
Another word game, https://www.chiddle.net
Re:enclose.horse
on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @09:24AM (#46512633)
I agree. Also, knowing the max score in advance would be better, so you know when to stop/whether to keep going.
Re:enclose.horse
on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @06:21AM (#46511033)
This is a very cool and enjoyable game. I'd be really interested in knowing what framework/library was used to make it. I inspected the source and can see the game is done on canvas, but can't work out more than that.
Re:Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move in to?
on Sunday July 20, 2025 @01:55PM (#44627558)
This is incredible and just what I wanted. Chrome extension and mobile app, and I could even seamlessly import all my pocket data direct from pocket. Absolutely using this. I don't tend to read things offline as much since internet is everywhere now, but I love having all my bookmarks in a nice browsable format with tagging.
Re:Show HN: Chiddle – Daily word game inspired by Boggle, Scrabble and...
on Friday February 21, 2025 @04:38AM (#43125727)
Thanks, haha yeah I thought it was a shame too. Maybe i'll repost in a couple of months, or blog about it sometime and share that. I've got some reddit posts up in word game related subs but the game won't stand out as much there since lots of others are doing the same.
What do you all think about the hint function?
Re:Show HN: Chiddle – Daily word game inspired by Boggle, Scrabble and...
on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @09:11AM (#43102344)
Thanks very much. Yes I agree, these types of games are best kept simple.
Re:Show HN: Chiddle – Daily word game inspired by Boggle, Scrabble and...
on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @07:15AM (#43101223)
Wordle and NYT Connections are two games I've enjoyed playing daily for several years. I like how they're relaxing, simple, I can come back to them throughout the day, and they're so accessible that friends and family frequently play too and we share results. I wanted to create something in a similar vein that I'd enjoy playing daily alongside them.
Chiddle is what I came up with. It's essentially boggle, but with scrabble-style letter points, and the aim is to get the highest score you can with your five highest scoring found words. You can try to find as many words as you like but only the top five scoring are counted towards your score, which is shown primarily as a percentage of the highest possible score. When you can't find any more you can submit your score to reveal the remaining top words and share your result. Like Wordle there is a new puzzle each day.
It's written in HTML/pure JS/CSS, with puzzles generated by a .net console app. Hosted for free on cloudflare.
All words have definitions, so if you try a word but are not sure what it means, you can read the definition afterwards if it's valid. When the top words are revealed, their definitions are also laid out alongside them. I found this to be a nice way of learning some new words. I also added a hint button to aid with finding the last word(s) to get you to a 100% score (all it gives you is what letter the word starts with). I go back and forth on whether the hint system affects the challenge too much, but I often don't get to 100% even with hints; some words are just really tricky to spot!
The biggest challenge of the project is in trying to generate puzzles that are satisfying to complete. After some early testing I found the criteria that makes the best puzzles are: 1. Lots of possible words. 2. Top words that are relatively common. 3. Tops words that are not mostly similar.
For point 1 I reject generated puzzles that contain a word count below a threshold. For point 2 I collected a number of common word lists from different sources, and I use the number of lists a word appears on to determine how common it probably is. If it's possible to get a 100% with common words, then the puzzle goes to a manual review stage where I check that the words are in fact common, and that point 3 is satisfied.
I've been playing around with the game for quite a while and I'm running out of ideas on how to improve it. Any feedback or suggestions are welcome!
Re:Issues Connecting to Azure SQL Databases in East US
on Saturday September 16, 2023 @06:07PM (#37539233)
I just tried to post about this and got redirected here. I am honestly gobsmacked at this from Microsoft. We're paying a premium and expect a solid uptime in return, and I'm at 14 hours down now with no resolution. They're a leading cloud provider with an abundance of resources to mitigate these sorts of issues
Re:Civilization 7 Is in Development
on Saturday February 18, 2023 @04:11AM (#34845343)
I wondered if anyone would bring it up. Polytopia other than csgo is the only game I really play anymore. It's essentially civ distilled into a perfectly cruftless experience. It's also perfect for multiplayer, as it works beautifully on phones (less friction to take a turn) and you can easily jump into 24-hour turn limit games.
I'm not sure the civ guys can come up with something to compete with it. The recent games were so bloated and everything dragged on to the to point you'd just lose interest mid game, or quit before an inevitable victory/loss in the late game.
Also I'm not sure what you could do to improve Polytopia to make it a better game, except adding multiplayer team games.
Re:Show HN: BookStack – An open source wiki platform and alternative t...
on Saturday January 08, 2022 @11:24AM (#29853122)
How does this compare to wikijs? This looks very good, but I'm already very happy with wikijs.
Re:10 years of whatever this has been
on Thursday November 18, 2021 @05:01AM (#29263851)
Except it's not? Especially a fully insured and physically backed ETC fund with low fees.
Re:Bitcoin Hits New All-Time High Above $65K on Strength of ETF Debut
on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @02:33PM (#28934277)
Ok so I've learnt something there, just one transaction to open a channel that everyone uses. But then what happens when you've transacted with say 30 different merchants, and the tab is called? Is that one bitcoin transaction to settle, or 30 since you're presumably sending bitcoin to 30 different wallets?
Personally I don't like the glacial pace of ground layer dev, as it makes me think this stuff can't be solved. Each way you approach it is a compromise.
Re:Bitcoin Hits New All-Time High Above $65K on Strength of ETF Debut
on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @11:49AM (#28932170)
Correct me if i'm wrong, but to open a payment channel with another party on the lightninng network (for example Starbucks to buy coffees) you need an onchain transaction. Then when you finally want to settle all of the lightning network transactions (pay your tab) you need another transaction. So you need at least two onchain transactions for every merchant you want to trade with.
The reason this doesnt scale is because for 100 million people to open one payment channel, it will take over a year to process all of those transactions. That wouldn't happen though as the transaction costs would skyrocket to the point people wouldn't bother.
Am I wrong? Genuinely, this is how I see it and why it cannot work.
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on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @10:10AM (#12390280)
Ah, soft deletes, so there's an accepted term for this approach. Does anyone know what sort of books run through these sorts of development issues? I feel like I should plug a few gaps in my knowledge around this area
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on Sunday May 24, 2015 @03:01PM (#9597172)
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