Show HN: Zanagrams

almara

Fun! I like how the puzzle naturally gets easier as you solve it. How do you decide which words to include?

blfr

I like that it also handles words that aren't planned in. You get a nice "bonus word" popout.

NDlurker

Cool game. Snus isn't in the word list btw Found six bonus words.

cryptoboy2283

https://zanagrams.com/puzzles/5.json

urostrstenjak

Interesting game! Is this an original idea? Is there plan to add "endless" number of zanagrams?

msla

There are a couple of games like this on Android I play: https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.vayunmathur.gam... https://github.com/plhosk/wordtracer They're both on FDroid

jasonpeacock

It’s basically Ribbit from Puzzmo, which is fine because reimplementations let you experiment with different gameplay. https://www.puzzmo.com

aevv

https://squaredle.app/

em-bee

the score should include how many bonus words you found (out of how many there were in total) and instead of time it should count how many tries you made because technically you could brute force this and try all combinations. counting each try would eliminate that (for anyone trying to get a high score)

iKlsR

Pretty fun, took me about 10 minutes but found 24 words 10 of them bonus. This was #5 for future viewers. Edit: welp, spent another 15 mins and managed to solve the previous 4. Currently whipping up a custom version for myself that gives a new set of words related to a theme on each solve, love it.

mateenah

pretty cool. how are you deciding or generating puzzles ?

purple-leafy

Cool game! Well that’s a sign I need to launch my word game this week if any

ctenb

Cool that they list the definitions of the words afterwards. This makes it even more fun for non-native speakers, as it adds a free learning aspect to it.

moomin

Feels very like Squaredle.

ggaswint

Love how the connections disappear once the letter is used up. Feels progressive

a-l-e-c

Simple and fun, appreciate the definitions! Was wondering about ideas for creating a simple game using the vocab list from my koreader app, but will probably need to be a crossword type game where I need to match definitions with words. This just reminded me of that :)

iku

Great puzzle! Is there a way to give up and see all the answers? After 20 minutes or so still have 8 words to find. (Not a native English speaker.)

wkjagt

This is so much fun. And something while playing reminded me of a this video I saw where someone asks her boyfriend "what does Y-E-S spell", and he said "yes". Then she asked him what "E-Y-E-S" spelled, and he couldn't figure it out (he kept saying "eee... yes?"). Anyway, I was looking at the remaining letters with just one word left to go. Four of them formed a word I had already guessed, plus one letter, but didn't make any sense with that additional letter. Until it did. I won't spoil which was it was, but it was in puzzle #1.

rd3i

Similar is https://squaredle.app !

dpfu

Nice game! I found 20 words. I was a bit stunned by the concept of "bonus words". I found that every word should count. Also because some words are just plural forms (e.g. stroke+s), so kinda cheep?! Keep ups the good work!