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This is pretty fun. Thank you OP!

Little off-topic, though, I love how Wordle kinda opened our eyes to the possibility of doing this kind of games in the web instead off a one-off native app. I recently made a word puzzle myself[1] which some of my friends enjoy playing and there's no way I would go through the soul-crushing cross-platorm native development ordeal for such a niche little app. But it can live in the web! (and pretty much for free thanks to Netlify). I'm now thinking of dusting and old Objective-C game that I wrote 10 years ago and never released, and rewrite it on web.

Idk, suddenly I feel excited about the web, again.

[1] https://palabrije.com/en (Sorry for the self-promotion)

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I very strongly dislike the user experience in Electron apps but I know the tradeoff for portability is worth it.

It's a good example that highlights the importance of both user experience and developer experience. It doesn't matter that the native implementation would be "better" if it's impractical to actually do.

For mobile apps small devs can't even go down the native road any more without the risk you'll be banished without recourse from the app store for "reasons"

I think 2048 was the first game I remember to be popular and Web based.

You're 100% right. But I would say that Wordle's success is unprecedented for web games. But I think it's part of the viral nature of the color squares tweets tbh.

I distinctly remember half a decade or so of flash games.

Me too, but I meant HTML5 games with mass appeal.

I feel like there was a lot of this sort of thing on the web back in the late 90's and early 2000's, first as Java applets and then as Flash apps.

This game is kind of nice. A clever variation of 15-Colors[1]. Problem though is that "15 Puzzle" is a pretty challenging puzzle in itself. Adding complexity of Wordle, makes it very hard. I see some potential in concept but it has to be made a bit easier to tackle.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_puzzle

It's actually easier than 15-colors (I didn't knew the name since I grow up in Mexico, thanks!) because the letters repeat so it's harder to get yourself in unsolvable positions. But I observed that many people stop playing once they guess the words, seems like solving the puzzle is way harder than guessing the words.

Like I said, a pretty niche game :)

I haven't actually tried it, but when I was getting into Flutter/Dart for a small Android project it seemed like (from what I saw online) it would be very simple to build a web version from the same code that generated the APK. Of course for more intricate apps this would likely not hold true.

Had quite a good time with Flutter even if it was just a week of tinkering.

Nice work! The letters are very blurry on Android Chrome, could be an anti-aliasing issue maybe

is it possible there is a bug with duplicate letters? or rather the implication of them when there is none?

I ended up in a situation with MMNNA all colored on the same row. AFAIK there is no word for that

Wow, 15 puzzle meets Wordle. Nice job.

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