[oliwary]

Fun!

I made one with a 5x5 square of letters, containing five words down and five across: https://squareword.org/

A bit like a combination of crosswords and Wordle, as vertical words can be used for additional clues.

[sand500]

Heh, I got this as a interview question years ago.

Given a list of words, see if there exists a valid 5x5 square of words.

[hexciple]

Been playing this one for a while, and I love it. I know it won't always line up this way, but the other day I was able to fill in 4 remaining words with 3 guesses and finished with a score of 8, felt great.

[aidenn0]

Nice, but seems to use a fairly restrictive word list compared to other games; might make it more attractive to some people as I have friends who say that "ZA" sums up everything wrong with scrabble in one word...

[oliwary]

Thanks for the feedback! Do you mean in the square itself or the possible guess words? Tried to calibrate the square itself for a good balance between challenge and reasonably common words.

[aidenn0]

Possible guess words. "unlid" and "mirly" are (possibly over-optimized) good second guesses in wordle.

[oliwary]

That is fair! I feel like those should definitely be allowed. I am using a wordlist based on this: http://wordlist.aspell.net/12dicts-readme/ which is public domain and has about 6k 5-letter words, compared to the Wordles 12k. If anybody knows any other good royalty free wordlists I would definitely be interested. :)

[aidenn0]

https://github.com/elasticdog/yawl is fairly standard for word-games.

[edit]

Seems possible that wordle uses it given the 12k number:

    grep '^.....$' word.list|wc -l
    12036

[oliwary]

Thank you so much aidenn0! This looks great, will integrate it in the next update.

[layer8]

Not the GP, but “April” isn’t in the word list.

[aidenn0]

Many (most?) word games forbid any words that are always capitalized. As either a month or a first name, April is capitalized.

[te]

I think this (squareword) would be even more fun with a toggle button to transpose the square.

[tfvlrue]

I've been playing this for a couple weeks now and have really enjoyed it. Well done!

[oliwary]

Thank you! I am very glad you are enjoying it.

[guelo]

Nice job!

One thing, I don't like that plurals are possible answers. The original let you guess plurals but no answers were plurals.

[NAHWheatCracker]

This is really neat and polished!

[saurik]

This forces you to type extremely slowly to the point where it feels super awkward :(.

[oliwary]

Hmm odd! Thanks for the feedback. I think it may be related to the material ripple effect on the keys. Pushed an update now that hopefully fixes it.

[danparsonson]

Really nice but... surely 'Squardle'? :-)

[madcaptenor]

There was already a Squardle: https://fubargames.se/squardle/

[danparsonson]

Ah well there we go; wow that one is confusing...

edit: ...but interesting!

[MattRix]

Yeah squardle is convoluted but feels surprisingly satisfying to solve.

[madcaptenor]

It took me a few tries to get it but I'm pretty into it now.