Show HN: Spanara – Yet Another Word Game

[bsmith]

This was inspired by a game my wife introduced me to in Finland, where license plates always started with 3 letters. The game was to come up with the "best" word, using those 3 letters, in the same order as they appeared on the plate. Thought it would be a fun app, so here it is. What do you think? Feedback appreciated :)

[wordglyph]

Good game! Made me think! Fyi, transitioning is a word but it wouldn't let me enter it. Try my word game when you get a chance. Https://WordGlyph.xyz

[bsmith]

Thanks for trying it out! And thanks for the word example, I'll have to find a better dictionary.

And your game was fun. I noticed it gave me a letter (A) when it still could have been another (F) https://imgur.com/a/7EU7XAo.

[wordglyph]

No, the green sticks mean they are part of letter. So in this case it must only be A. The sticks turn black when the letter is found. But the game is to figure out in fewest sticks so you don't want to turn them black. You want to use you "negative" aka wrong sticks to help deduce things.

[bsmith]

Yeah, just guess I'm a bit confused, because the green sticks I've chosen are valid for both A and F, so I'm not quite getting how F got ruled out in that instance.

[wordglyph]

Just remember the rule that if the letter sticks are green (even tho the green sticks make a letter) then you didn't find the letter.

[wordglyph]

I have a dictionary I complied years ago from all scrabble dictionaries UK & US which contains all the words you'd ever want. My original wordGlyph game used it. I can send it to you if you want to use it. Goto the bottom of WordGlyph instructions to contact me.