Show HN: Wordit – Change One Letter, Keep the Chain Going

Show HN: Wordit – Change One Letter, Keep the Chain Going(victorribeiro.com)

9 points by atum47 1 day ago | 11 comments

Hi everyone,

I got this idea for a game where, starting from a four letter word you need to go as deep as you can in your vocabulary, changing only one letter per word.

bear -> beer -> peer...

Each correct word gives you 1 point

Each incorrect word takes one life away from you, you start with 3

tty456 2 hours ago |

Love the concept! Although found it a bit leading of easy answers once I landed on a word where changing the first letter yielded many new words (i.e. word like 'time' yielded many new *ime words, or plural words if ending in an s). Felt repetitive after a while. Perhaps a Hard mode where the next changed letter must be a different position?

atum47 2 hours ago | |

thanks, the whole thing were prototyped in a day or so. I was thinking about ways to make it more challenging, maybe using 5 letters word, 6... messing with how many edits you get.

I was going under surgery on the day I released this, cause it was my first time going under general anesthesia and i was freaking out. it was a rush against the time to release as is. now that I'm recovering i'll work on it some more.

thanks for the feed back

uberex 1 day ago |

This sort of thing was a favourite in puzzle books except you had to get to the end word.

Fun play!

I soon realized get to a nice word where the first letter can be replaced alot like "buck".

atum47 1 day ago | |

After the initial prototype, I was playing to see if the game was fun, I realized that from time to time you can get a whole new word by changing one letter. I'm glad you liked it

nosioptar 56 minutes ago |

The keyboard control on mobile is tedious. Have to tap in letter box to get keyboard, keyboard disappears after entering letter, have to repeat for each letter. It'd be a huge improvement to let me type all four letters without exiling my keyboard to mordor.

atum47 48 minutes ago | |

You're not supposed to type more than one letter. You click the box you want to edit, type the letter you want to change and click check.

nosioptar 12 minutes ago | | |

Oh, that makes more sense.

tim-projects 2 hours ago |

LARP wasn't in the dictionary. I feel cheated.

atum47 1 hour ago | |

don't blame me, I used the biggest dictionary I could find

naikrovek 1 hour ago |

“bapt” was my starting word.

I was doomed to fail. “bapt” are you kidding?

rothos 1 hour ago | |

rapt, rape, rare, dare, ...