Show HN: InfiniWord – infinite multiplayer word search

Hi everyone! I’ve been on leave since welcoming our first child into the world which has given me time, in between 3 am diaper changes and with the tireless support of Claude, to get to personal projects.

One of those is a game for my wife who’s big into word searches. Around the time she expressed interest in wanting a word search game I was reminded of “1 million chessboards” (https://eieio.games/blog/one-million-chessboards/) and thought that would be fun to replicate in this space. Thus was born infiniword - an infinite, persistent, procedurally generated, realtime multiplayer word search game.

Alongside the standard word search features, Infiniword has the following unique ones:

Scrabble like tile multipliers (currently a 1/2000 chance for a tile to be worth 3x)

First find bonuses for being the first to find a word globally

25 achievements of various difficulties

All time and weekly leaderboards across points, found words, and first finds

Simple friends list with the ability to teleport to them and hunt for words together

Shareable events like a specific word you found, winning a “wanted word”, placing in the top 3 of a “challenge zone”, and more.

“Wanted words” - a timed hunt for a specific word in a circular area that comes with a bonus based on how much time is left

“Challenge zones” - every 3 hours a random 100x100 tile zone becomes a “challenge area” where you compete with all other players to get the most points from words in the zone.

“Daily challenge zone” - same thing as the main world challenge zones but the world is just the 100x100 area with a new seed each day. Competition runs from 10am central US to 10 pm central US. The first daily launches here soon, go check it out! https://infiniword.com/daily

Hope everyone enjoys playing it as much as my family and I do!