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Show HN: Word Tower – A simple daily word puzzle

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10 pointsdanieltait7 comments

I found the letters shifting around as you used them to be frustrating and confusing. I also wasn’t sure whether unused letters remain or are replaced between rounds.

Nevertheless I enjoyed it well enough… the one time I got to play it

Neat. The first play through was confusing as it was unclear that I was using letters that would be replaced with new ones. Making that clear would be good.

I'd also suggest that what makes wordle so popular is that it's shareable in a meaningful way without giving away answers.

The share should have your final score as well as colored blocks of all the words made (without the letters) like wordle and put into the clipboard for pasting.

It was fun tho!

Running Brave with uBlock extension and the page is entirely white - Nothing loads. Console only shows

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'split') at (index):57:32

Looks like the creator only put in enough for a couple days worth:

    day = Math.floor((new Date() - new Date("Nov 1 2022")) / (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24));

    games = ["NIEDSSLNINARAHIEAETKECGIPEILTZ", "TBERAOTEIBDNATIOEGGUIGUWUNHEOS", "NIEDSSLNINARAHIEAETKECGIPEILTZ", "TBERAOTEIBDNATIOEGGUIGUWUNHEOS"];

    letters = games[day];

    lettersarray = letters.split("");

Same in Firefox - also with uBlock. Didn't check the console.

Putting this into my daily rotation, this is great!

very simple and addictive.

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