6 comments

  • furyofantares38 days ago
    Really neat. Part of speech is quite easily the hardest dimension, kind of interesting to have a SET game with such a difference in the dimensions.<p>I&#x27;m curious about the decision to do it showing 2 words and you find the 3rd. It&#x27;s trivial to identify which length and text decoration you&#x27;re looking for, usually leaving only a couple options and you have to work out which one is the right part of speech. I guess that&#x27;s why you&#x27;re meant to level up your pacing.<p>But I&#x27;m surprised it&#x27;s not more like the original set, where you&#x27;re searching around the board for a group of 3 rather than presented with 2 that have a known 3rd that you&#x27;re meant to find.<p>The share result is really clever. I guess maybe that answers my questions actually, it&#x27;s designed around a playtime that&#x27;s more like a daily puzzle game.
    • zahlman38 days ago
      &gt; Part of speech is quite easily the hardest dimension<p>Many English words can be used as two (or all three) of noun&#x2F;verb&#x2F;adjective. Including, er, &quot;set&quot;.<p>&gt; The share result is really clever. I guess maybe that answers my questions actually, it&#x27;s designed around a playtime that&#x27;s more like a daily puzzle game.<p>That&#x27;s table stakes for this kind of game now. I think the main way people learned about Wordle must have been from their friends spamming their results on Discord&#x2F;Twitter&#x2F;etc.
      • furyofantares38 days ago
        &gt; That&#x27;s table stakes for this kind of game now.<p>Haha, well yes - I&#x27;ve put quite a number of these games out myself. I was a little surprised I didn&#x27;t realize at the start that it was going to be this type of game, probably because of SET being a PVP game I&#x27;ve played tons of (well, you can play it solo but I haven&#x27;t) so I wasn&#x27;t really seeing this as a daily puzzle game at first.<p>But anyway, some of these games do a better job with their share result than others, often depending on if it&#x27;s tacked on at the end or if the game is designed with it in mind. I was commenting that I liked this specific share result.
  • zahlman38 days ago
    &gt; We’ve got three “paces” in the game: Steady, Strenuous, and Grueling<p>I hope nobody in the wagon gets dysentery.<p>&gt; In Tidy Baby you only have to deal with three dimensions... two “game cards” and a grid of up to nine candidates<p>So it&#x27;s just recognizing which candidate completes the set?<p>&gt; - word length (3, 4, or 5 letters) - part of speech (noun, verb, or adjective) - style (bold, underline, or italic)<p>&quot;Style&quot; seems artificial here. Couldn&#x27;t it be something else to do with the word itself?
  • admtal37 days ago
    Fun!! Challenging<p>I streamed if you want to see a stranger play: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.twitch.tv&#x2F;videos&#x2F;2657578462" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.twitch.tv&#x2F;videos&#x2F;2657578462</a>
  • dilap38 days ago
    It&#x27;s neat!<p>Suggestionms:<p>A version where you actually need to find sets -- &quot;have two, find third&quot; is way too easy.<p>Monospaced font -- it&#x27;s too hard visually to see difference in word length right now, w&#x2F;o counting letters.
  • messe38 days ago
    &gt; Wyna Liu (of NYT Connections!)<p>The blatant rip off of a round from the BBC quiz show Only Connect?