Show HN: Zanagrams
65 points by pompomsheep 4 hours ago | 19 comments
ggaswint 3 minutes ago
Love how the connections disappear once the letter is used up. Feels progressive
replyjasonpeacock 2 hours ago
It’s basically Ribbit from Puzzmo, which is fine because reimplementations let you experiment with different gameplay.
replyctenb 27 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.
replyiKlsR 2 hours ago
Pretty fun, took me about 10 minutes but found 24 words 10 of them bonus. This was #5 for future viewers.
replyEdit: 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.
purple-leafy 38 minutes ago
Cool game! Well that’s a sign I need to launch my word game this week if any
replyem-bee 2 hours 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)
replyblfr 3 hours ago
I like that it also handles words that aren't planned in. You get a nice "bonus word" popout.
replyalmara 4 hours ago
Fun! I like how the puzzle naturally gets easier as you solve it. How do you decide which words to include?
replypompomsheep 3 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.
replyI then manually test each of the puzzles and throw out any that I feel weren't "fun" to solve for whatever reason
urostrstenjak 3 hours ago
Interesting game! Is this an original idea? Is there plan to add "endless" number of zanagrams?
replymsla 3 hours ago
There are a couple of games like this on Android I play:
replyhttps://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.vayunmathur.gam...
https://github.com/plhosk/wordtracer
They're both on FDroid