Word Pivot
Games
word puzzle game
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2points
8comments
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How HN took it
QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project
0 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 1 critical, out of 4 comments about the project.
Design: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Fun game
From 1 comment
Fun! Fyi, I had an issue backspacing on Pixel 7 backspacing overwriting a letter.
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Objections
Keyboard closes after each letter and has input bugs on mobile
From 2 comments
Nice! A few issues on Firefox android: - keyboard closes after adding each letter so it's a clunky experience - couldn't delete a letter - it let me add two letters into the last…
stevage on HNFun! Fyi, I had an issue backspacing on Pixel 7 backspacing overwriting a letter.
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Rules are unintuitive, especially horizontal words not needing to be words
From 2 comments
Nice! A few issues on Firefox android: - keyboard closes after adding each letter so it's a clunky experience - couldn't delete a letter - it let me add two letters into the last…
stevage on HNAlso, the rule that you can't repeat a letter for a position with the horizontal word, or two immediate neighbours is just too...finnicky and arbitrary.
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Timer feels unnecessary
From 1 comment
Nice! A few issues on Firefox android: - keyboard closes after adding each letter so it's a clunky experience - couldn't delete a letter - it let me add two letters into the last…
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Requests
Fix mobile keyboard and backspace behaviour
From 2 comments
Thanks for letting me know, I will check on it!
max0563 on HNYeah, I am starting to appreciate that view a bit more now after also struggling with the native keyboard. I already started working on adding that to Word Pivot.
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Simpler ruleset in a new version
From 1 comment
Thanks for the feedback. > The rules are a bit unintuitive. Definitely surprising that horizontal words don't have to be words. You are not the first person to say this, and I am…
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Alternatives named
Custom keyboard app wordglyph.xyz
From 1 comment
I ended up making my own keyboard for consistency across devices for https://wordglyph.xyz Another nice thing about custom keyboard is it doesn't give you word predictions like a…
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