Show HN: Zanagrams

(zanagrams.com)

44 points | by pompomsheep 3 hours ago ago

15 comments

  • iKlsR 15 minutes ago ago

    Pretty fun, took me about 10 minutes but found 24 words 10 of them bonus. This was #5 for future viewers.

  • jasonpeacock an hour ago ago

    It’s basically Ribbit from Puzzmo, which is fine because reimplementations let you experiment with different gameplay.

    https://www.puzzmo.com

    • abound an hour ago ago

      Came here to say this, Ribbit is a lot of fun, and Puzzmo in general is a really solid site.

  • em-bee an hour ago 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)

  • mateenah 10 minutes ago ago

    pretty cool. how are you deciding or generating puzzles ?

  • NDlurker 2 hours ago ago

    Cool game. Snus isn't in the word list btw

    Found six bonus words.

  • blfr 2 hours ago ago

    I like that it also handles words that aren't planned in. You get a nice "bonus word" popout.

    • msla 2 hours ago ago

      Yeah, I got "TUNS" as a bonus word.

      • philsnow 5 minutes ago ago

        Yeah tuns (a word well known to homebrewers) is not as esoteric as yttria (a word known to.. chemists?)

      • smitty1e an hour ago ago

        Not sure how to vote for it, though.

  • almara 2 hours ago 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 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 ago
  • urostrstenjak an hour ago ago

    Interesting game! Is this an original idea? Is there plan to add "endless" number of zanagrams?

  • msla an hour ago 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