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Posted by pompomsheep 13 hours ago

Show HN: 18 Words(18words.com)
806 points | 283 commentspage 8
spaceman_2020 9 hours ago|
Damn fun and challenging

Congrats! This looks like a daily one for me

mkrecny 11 hours ago||
one thing I noticed playing this:

way easier with fingers on the keyboard (vs selecting characters with mouse)

just typing out seemingly possible words per muscle memory / subconscious impulse

upmind 12 hours ago||
what made you go with 18?
drcongo 12 hours ago||
14 was taken.
giancarlostoro 11 hours ago||
I see what you did there. I did a double take when I saw this on the front page of HN.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Words

pompomsheep 11 hours ago||
Haha I've never heard of this but lucky i went with 18
giancarlostoro 11 hours ago|||
I'm equally laughing because I remember a coding snafu I ran into once, where we were aggressively filtering out "1488" turns out someone finally joined and "1488" was part of their user ID (auto-increment field!), and we realized maybe we shouldn't be checking the auto-increment field, not sure if it was me being too aggressive and not thinking about it, or another developer, but I did laugh once I figured out why that one user was unable to use half of the web app. This was for a gaming community based project, we had a lot of trolls come and go, and they would definitely shove these sorts of references in their usernames, and anywhere else you had custom user input.

The internet is a magical place.

pizzafeelsright 7 hours ago|||
in good faith, you went with a number.

had it been 14 you would have a torrent of ill will where no excuse or response would have been sufficient in the minds of those who fail at life.

We must secure equal forgiveness for the people and the future inadvertent online mistakes.

giancarlostoro 6 hours ago||
We must secure Hacker News from low quality commentary and ensure insightful future discussions.
falcor84 12 hours ago|||
Not the parent, but I just checked and it seems that all $iwords.com are taken for i<18
Retr0id 9 hours ago||
It's the standard number of holes in a golf course
eranation 11 hours ago||
Nicely done. A shuffle letters button would be nice.
docheinestages 12 hours ago||
This could be a cool captcha challenge (without the timer).
addandsubtract 11 hours ago|
That's not how captchas work...
docheinestages 9 hours ago||
Please enlighten me on how they work. My understanding is that captchas usually either involve challenges for humans or require proof of work (some computation). I found the idea of this game along the lines of a human challenge.
magneticnorth 8 hours ago||
Captchas are usually used to separate humans and bots, typically with something a human can solve but a bot cannot. A bot would have no trouble at all with this game.
docheinestages 4 hours ago||
I think humans don't behave the same as bots when playing this game.
orliesaurus 12 hours ago||
Fun, that's it. New addiction after daily wordle unlocked
quasiperfectus 12 hours ago||
Embarrassed of where I failed (#8). Very cool game though!
magneticnorth 8 hours ago||
I failed on number 11, which put me in the top 20%. It's a tough game!
al_borland 12 hours ago||
If it makes you feel better, I failed on #3. In my defense, I'm running on 2 hours of sleep.
yayamao 3 hours ago||
hard and addictive
mritchie712 12 hours ago||
great game, what do you think of adding shuffle?
linhns 8 hours ago|
Shuffle button needed.
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