Show HN: Wordit – Change One Letter, Keep the Chain Going

(victorribeiro.com)

8 points | by atum47 1 day ago

7 comments

  • tty456 1 hour ago
    Love the concept! Although found it a bit leading of easy answers once I landed on a word where changing the first letter yielded many new words (i.e. word like 'time' yielded many new *ime words, or plural words if ending in an s). Felt repetitive after a while. Perhaps a Hard mode where the next changed letter must be a different position?
    • atum47 1 hour ago
      thanks, the whole thing were prototyped in a day or so. I was thinking about ways to make it more challenging, maybe using 5 letters word, 6... messing with how many edits you get.

      I was going under surgery on the day I released this, cause it was my first time going under general anesthesia and i was freaking out. it was a rush against the time to release as is. now that I'm recovering i'll work on it some more.

      thanks for the feed back

  • nosioptar 31 minutes ago
    The keyboard control on mobile is tedious. Have to tap in letter box to get keyboard, keyboard disappears after entering letter, have to repeat for each letter. It'd be a huge improvement to let me type all four letters without exiling my keyboard to mordor.
    • atum47 23 minutes ago
      You're not supposed to type more than one letter. You click the box you want to edit, type the letter you want to change and click check.
  • uberex 1 day ago
    This sort of thing was a favourite in puzzle books except you had to get to the end word.

    Fun play!

    I soon realized get to a nice word where the first letter can be replaced alot like "buck".

    • atum47 1 day ago
      After the initial prototype, I was playing to see if the game was fun, I realized that from time to time you can get a whole new word by changing one letter. I'm glad you liked it
  • tim-projects 1 hour ago
    LARP wasn't in the dictionary. I feel cheated.
    • atum47 1 hour ago
      don't blame me, I used the biggest dictionary I could find
  • naikrovek 1 hour ago
    “bapt” was my starting word.

    I was doomed to fail. “bapt” are you kidding?

    • rothos 1 hour ago
      rapt, rape, rare, dare, ...
  • JDK111 21 minutes ago
    [dead]
  • raullu 18 hours ago
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