[d--b]

The game's great but I'm puzzled why no one mentions that this is a verbatim copy of Lingo, a 1987 tv show that's been adapted in many countries. I used to watch this in France where it was very successful. Once people got too good at 5-letter words, they ran 6, then 7, and finally 8 letters.

[Kiro]

It's obviously very standard (and has been done a million times before and after Lingo... probably as long as language has existed) but it's all about the execution here.

[Vinnl]

Nine days ago :)

> Fun fact: this concept is also the basis for a game show on Dutch national TV. I took part two years ago, and spent way too much time optimising our strategy: https://vincenttunru.com/hacking-a-gameshow/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29713212

And we even went up to ten letters! (Albeit in a slightly different format.)

[Jasper_]

It goes back even further, to a word game from 1955, though I'm sure it's been invented earlier. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jotto

[kirso]

Everything is a remix!