Show HN: Tidy Baby is a SET game but with words

(tidy.baby)

15 points by brgross3 hours ago

2 comments

furyofantares1 hour 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.I'm curious about the decision to do it showing 2 words and you find the 3rd. It's trivial to identify which length and text decoration you'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's why you're meant to level up your pacing.But I'm surprised it's not more like the original set, where you're searching around the board for a group of 3 rather than presented with 2 that have a known 3rd that you're meant to find.The share result is really clever. I guess maybe that answers my questions actually, it's designed around a playtime that's more like a daily puzzle game.
- zahlman45 minutes ago
 > Part of speech is quite easily the hardest dimensionMany English words can be used as two (or all three) of noun/verb/adjective. Including, er, "set".> The share result is really clever. I guess maybe that answers my questions actually, it's designed around a playtime that's more like a daily puzzle game.That'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/Twitter/etc.
 - furyofantares38 minutes ago
 > That's table stakes for this kind of game now.Haha, well yes - I've put quite a number of these games out myself. I was a little surprised I didn't realize at the start that it was going to be this type of game, probably because of SET being a PVP game I've played tons of (well, you can play it solo but I haven't) so I wasn't really seeing this as a daily puzzle game at first.But anyway, some of these games do a better job with their share result than others, often depending on if it'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.
zahlman47 minutes ago
> We’ve got three “paces” in the game: Steady, Strenuous, and GruelingI hope nobody in the wagon gets dysentery.> In Tidy Baby you only have to deal with three dimensions... two “game cards” and a grid of up to nine candidatesSo it's just recognizing which candidate completes the set?> - word length (3, 4, or 5 letters) - part of speech (noun, verb, or adjective) - style (bold, underline, or italic)"Style" seems artificial here. Couldn't it be something else to do with the word itself?