Show HN: Triplit, a new daily word game
triplit.comMy partner and I built a daily word game that has elements of the Mini Crossword, Wordle, and Spelling Bee, with some twists all its own.
I’ve been fairly obsessed with the New York Times crossword puzzle ever since I saw the documentary Wordplay about 12 years ago. I started with Mondays and gradually made my way up to Saturdays, and when I began to appreciate the puzzles as aesthetic objects worthy of appreciation and criticism (rather than just a slog to survive and then brag about), I began to wonder what it would be like to create puzzles. But making full crossword puzzles was always very daunting to me.
Luckily, my partner got an idea for a new word game while on vacation in Italy over-caffeinated on espresso, and boom! Triplit was born.
We feel that after the smashing success of Wordle, the time is ripe for a new quick daily word game. To us, Triplit combines the playful, at times cryptic clueing of crosswords with the mental manipulation of Spelling Bee and the feedback and scoring system of Wordle. It also introduces the concept of random clue order, so unlike a crossword you don’t know which clue applies to which answer. And Triplit also has multiple difficulty level settings to make it fun for a variety of players.
It has been so fun to build and iterate on! We have more features and improvements planned. We hope you enjoy playing, and would love to hear your feedback. And yes, we know there is a Triplit database, and we mean no disrespect to them :)
I had fun playing. It took me 3:14 seconds to play, which, I think, is great!
I will note that I was a little confused at first since I must have read the rules too quickly. For some reason I was thinking that you only needed to include two of the starter letters.
Anyway, am I correct in saying that each word must contain all of the letters in the shorter word directly above it? I might be misunderstanding, but isn't that essentially the same thing as what you currently have: "each word should ... contain both the starter letters and the letters of the shorter word"
I would change the hints based on which word/line is selected, otherwise very neat.
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