Show HN: Social word building game where you don’t complete the word

ghostgame.io

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Hello. We are a group of 5 friends, and are proud to present the Ghost Game at https://ghostgame.io We used to play this spoken word game in college. It was a fun way to pass time as a parallel thread in our conversations.

The idea is to continue the word fragment by adding a letter, but always keep a larger word in mind. If the next player believes you have completed the word or there can be no word beginning with that prefix, they can challenge you.

We worked on this as a neat little side project. It's built on simple FE stack (HTML, CSS, JS) and uses Firebase in the backend to maintain the game state and logic.

Get on a call, create a room, and play with friends, family and coworkers. Remember, the conversations are an integral part of the experience!

Let us know how you like it.

Pretty neat. You guys need a user base. It looks like there was nobody to challenge. But it's fine. Great idea.

Perhaps add an option to pay in a room with random people. (My guess is the most popular word will be peninsular or something.)

Also, a bot may be nice. There are many free English dictionaries. But it may be difficult to balance to get a bot that is not too good but not too bad.

Hello there. Public rooms sound nice, so you can join in with random people. Thanks for the idea.

Although we do want to keep the focus on this being a social game. Something you play on discord or at work with people you know. So a bot somewhat takes it away from it.

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