Show HN: Cobble – A hard daily word game

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28 points | by wolfred 3 days ago ago

18 comments

  • degamad 3 days ago ago

    Cute game! A way to sign up without a google account would be nice, but since it's playable without it, that's good enough for me for now.

  • mcintyre1994 2 days ago ago

    Nice! Fun game and works well :)

    - I don’t think the space bar again to submit is super obvious.

    - It’d be nice if it showed the numeric score at the end too, not just in the leaderboard. It’s also not obvious how the score is calculated (I think it’s the length of both words?)

    - Would also be nice to show the score for the reveal words, so I can see how close I was to the best score

    - If you log in it resets the board, maybe you could put it in localstorage before redirecting?

  • pimlottc 3 days ago ago

    I completed the puzzle and it said “Good”. Then I looked at the scoreboard and other people got numerical scores? And I didn’t?

    • v64 3 days ago ago

      your score is the length of your two words plus the space

  • d--b 3 days ago ago

    You shouldn’t force people to create an account. Pretty much all other xxxle games are login-free.

    • degamad 2 days ago ago

      I was able to play without an account, when did it force you to create one?

      • spookie 2 days ago ago

        Before it did.

  • andelink 2 days ago ago

    It says “framer” is not in the word list, but it most certainly is a word, at least according to the New Oxford American Dictionary.

    • Lalabadie 2 days ago ago

      Looks like the word list in this game is rather thin. Some other that are absent from it: Reframe, Merman, Mummer, Rimmer, Rummer

      (English is not my first language)

      • tumnus a day ago ago

        Let's add 'Murmurer' to that list

  • Wistar 3 days ago ago

    A bit surprised that TILTH is not in the acceptable word list.

    • eszed 2 days ago ago

      Nor was "hilted", so I came back here to complain about the word list. :-)

    • spookie 2 days ago ago

      Could make it with 2 common words for 11. But a second attempt used archaic ones.

      It's a bit limited though

    • floren 2 days ago ago

      Ah, so I'm not the only one!

  • majikandy 2 days ago ago

    I liked it and got a 7 space 4.

    Is this the max score? How can I know? It wants me to login for a reveal… which is unfortunately where I bounced. Maybe I would sign up after a fews days if I got hooked because I found it really annoying when I lost my wordle streak.

  • gsliepen 2 days ago ago

    What if you find one word that covers all the letters, like "highlighted"?

    • MinimalAction 2 days ago ago

      There are two Ts in the prompt. Choose a long second word with a T in it.

  • vrosas 2 days ago ago

    Neat. Remove the need to log in and use the regular keyboard, please.