alt Hacker NewsI'm continuing to hack on Tiled Words, my daily word puzzle!
After winning the Playlin Player's Choice award I've noticed an uptick in players as well as some people sharing videos on YouTube which has been fun. I've got a few thousand people playing every day.
I just launched user accounts today so user's can now track their progress across devices and share their stats with each other. This ended up being a bigger chunk of work than I expected but I'm really pleased with how it turned out. (Though I launched it 15 minutes ago so I'm holding my breath for bug reports)
I'm fine-tuning my internal puzzle-building now with the goal of letting people use them to make and share their own puzzles soon!
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I love tiled words, I've actually been doing the daily puzzle for a while, have completed over a 100 of them! It's part of my morning routine :)
I'm not sure if it would fit the theme, but sometimes I end up searching what an expression means, or where does it come from. Maybe it would be cool to have a little info box after you discover what the word is. Just an idea! Not sure if it would clutter things, and you can always search it yourself, but something I've been thinking about. I still remember looking up peanut gallery and sand dollar!
Thanks for making this. It's totally refreshingly intuitive while doing the practice puzzle!
Just tried it out on my browser. Will be following this.
Also would love to see your workflow you spoke about, on coming up with puzzle ideas and tile arrangements. Cheers!
I've been enjoying Tiled Words! I find myself playing in a weird way, by totally ignoring the clues. I look at the title and try to puzzle out all the answers myself. I don't know if I'm alone in that, but it could be a neat mode to have a setting to hide the clues.
this is so cool, i liked the musical instruments one!
would be super interested to hear more about the puzzle-making process too, is it fully automated with AI at this point or is there still a good amount of manual work and fine-tuning involved?
bookmarked already, can't wait to play tomorrow again
Very nice, the movement and snapping of the tiles is very nicely done, enjoyed today's puzzle!
I just tried this out for the first time and really enjoyed it!
That's a very fun puzzle, nice work! I'll be telling my friends.
Oh wow. This seems like it was a lot of work. Bookmarked and installed!
I can't say I'm a regular user but a while ago I stumbled upon another post about tiledwords while a loved one was in the hospital and it was a fun and welcome distraction to solve some of the puzzles together while stuck in an otherwise grim environment.
Thanks for making this and I wish you all the success in the future.