Show HN: Reduce: A Daily Puzzle
reduce.gamesA daily word game that I built for fun for my wife and I, and we've gotten a lot of positive feedback from friends an family, so sharing it here in case anyone else derives a little bit of joy from daily word puzzles!
Nice puzzle. Hope you keep it up for a while.
Can you please explain the "how everyone did" table? For example, after I finished the puzzle I got this table:
2 0 0 0 17
7 6 5 4 3Thanks!
That table shows you what all other players finished at. i.e 17 other people made it to 3 letters, and 2 people got stuck on the original word (7 letters)
Nice job. My only minor feedback is that the first 6-letter word of today's puzzle feels a mite obscure. (Without spoiling anything, I'd never heard that word used standalone without a preceding one)
There is more than one valid path :)
That’s a fun idea. A nice alternative to wordle.
I did not do well… I failed early and I kinda wish I had a chance with some of the other reductions.
How did you build it?
> I kinda wish I had a chance with some of the other reductions
New puzzle every day!
I thought about making previous puzzles available, but I've decided we've got enough things on the internet trying to hold our attention as long as possible, and that isn't my goal here.
It's not very interesting technically. Standard nextjs / react webstack. Most of the fun to be had here was in writing the puzzle generation algorithm.