Show HN: Zanagrams(zanagrams.com)
60 points by pompomsheep 3 hours ago | 14 comments
ctenb 11 minutes ago
Cool that they list the definitions of the words afterwards. This makes it even more fun for non-native speakers, as it adds a free learning aspect to it.
jasonpeacock 1 hour ago
It’s basically Ribbit from Puzzmo, which is fine because reimplementations let you experiment with different gameplay.

https://www.puzzmo.com

abound 1 hour ago
Came here to say this, Ribbit is a lot of fun, and Puzzmo in general is a really solid site.
iKlsR 47 minutes ago
Pretty fun, took me about 10 minutes but found 24 words 10 of them bonus. This was #5 for future viewers.

Edit: welp, spent another 15 mins and managed to solve the previous 4. Currently whipping up a custom version for myself that gives a new set of words related to a theme on each solve, love it.

moomin 9 minutes ago
Feels very like Squaredle.
purple-leafy 22 minutes ago
Cool game! Well that’s a sign I need to launch my word game this week if any
em-bee 1 hour ago
the score should include how many bonus words you found (out of how many there were in total) and instead of time it should count how many tries you made because technically you could brute force this and try all combinations. counting each try would eliminate that (for anyone trying to get a high score)
NDlurker 2 hours ago
Cool game. Snus isn't in the word list btw

Found six bonus words.

blfr 2 hours ago
I like that it also handles words that aren't planned in. You get a nice "bonus word" popout.
2 hours ago
msla 2 hours ago
Yeah, I got "TUNS" as a bonus word.
philsnow 37 minutes ago
Yeah tuns (a word well known to homebrewers) is not as esoteric as yttria (a word known to.. chemists?)
smitty1e 1 hour ago
Not sure how to vote for it, though.
almara 2 hours ago
Fun! I like how the puzzle naturally gets easier as you solve it. How do you decide which words to include?
pompomsheep 2 hours ago
Thanks. I use a combination of AI to first score the words by obscurity and then manually decide which ones to include based on this score and my own judgement.

I then manually test each of the puzzles and throw out any that I feel weren't "fun" to solve for whatever reason

cryptoboy2283 2 hours ago
urostrstenjak 2 hours ago
Interesting game! Is this an original idea? Is there plan to add "endless" number of zanagrams?
mateenah 42 minutes ago
pretty cool. how are you deciding or generating puzzles ?
msla 2 hours ago
There are a couple of games like this on Android I play:

https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.vayunmathur.gam...

https://github.com/plhosk/wordtracer

They're both on FDroid

aevv 1 hour ago
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