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  • Sorry folks, something broke! Looking into it and will post here with updates.

    UPDATE #2: Seeing full recovery now (Aug 9, 10 PM PST).

    UPDATE #1: Looks like Railway is having problems - https://status.railway.com/incident/RL8FRJE6

    by johnchinjew
  • Fun game. Would be nice if there was a single player mode that simply prints the letters and at the end shows the longest word that was missed. That way you can play it offline and place a phone in the center of the table and people can play around it with pen and paper or by just thinking of the word and everyone announces at the end.
    by scronkfinkle
  • Nice job. But wouldn't accept tnetennba [1]. :)

    Seriously though reminds me of the game "Countdown" in the series IT Crowd where they compete to find the longest word in a random assortment of vowels and consonants.

    [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9ixvD0_CmM

    by vunderba
  • Idea: it would be more interesting/competitive if you could immediately see others' submissions, and if those words were then "taken" and can't be reused.

    Currently you're just kind of twiddling your thumbs after you submit and run out of ideas.

    It was also not immediately obvious to me that you can submit multiple words, so I was wasting time entering and deleting attempts before finally submitting the best one.

    Finally, instead of fixed timers between rounds, you might want to have a "Ready!" or "Go!" button.

    by decimalenough
  • I’m assuming the (duck emoji) is the bot for when no one else in the lobby? Glad you included that. However, I’m not sure why “niggas” is one of the words it uses… Moderating users is one thing but I would hope at least the bot could be inoffensive…
    by recursive-call
  • Hey all! I've added a number of features this past week. Tell me what you think.

    1. You can now react with emojis at the end of every round.

    2. Someone found a great word? You can now double-tap to give them a like.

    3. You can now see the first letter of the "word to beat" in real time.

    Other improvements: Added a more detailed "How to play?". Addressed the profanity issues. Improved the word list quality. Fixed unexpected "Word already used" errors.

    by johnchinjew
  • Nice!

    Needs a chat space to say "gg" at the end. It could even be just a button that does just that, if you're worried about unmoderated chat. Competitive games feel unfinished without it!

    I was in second place for the first three rounds and then swept to the front on the last round.

    by SamBam
  • This is a lot of fun! I'm pleased that I was able to defeat "hitler1488", but you may want to add some content filtering for the name choosing step.
    by magneticnorth

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