nowfound

Life & fun · August 15, 2023

SF

Scuddl – Fail to guess the word on time, and your lobster shall boil

Scuddl – Fail to guess the word on time, and your lobster shall boil launched on August 15, 2023 with 10 votes, #1,659 of 4,347 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.

In plain words

Scuddl is a word-guessing game where players must identify a word before time runs out, or face the consequence of a virtual lobster boiling. Launched in 2023, the game is designed for people seeking quick, casual entertainment. The primary standout feature is its penalty mechanic that adds urgency and whimsy to the traditional guessing game format.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

Does a similar job

all alternatives →
  • Evil Wordle2022 · swag.github.io · ▲177
  • GuesslyJan 2026 · guessly.me · ▲96

    A daily mini guessing game that roasts you when you fail

  • Swoords - Clash of Words2018 · swoords.com · ▲145

    A New Free Multiplayer Word Game

  • Potato Pirates2018 · potatopirates.game · ▲91

    Learn programming in 30 minutes through a Potato card game

  • Scurvy Scallywags2015 · apps.apple.com · ▲54

    A match-3 RPG brimming with pirates

  • Vowl daily word guessing game2023 · vowlgame.com · ▲35

    Vowl is a simple daily game where you have to guess three things just by looking at the vowels. Each guess will reveal how many vowels and consonants you matched.

More life & fun this month

the category →

Source: Show HN post ↗

Launched alongside, August 2023

the whole month →
  • Resend▲1,325

    An entire collection of pre-built components with a much faster development experience.

    Dev tools · 2023 · resend.com

  • STORI AI▲1,316

    Your ideas become visually compelling branded social posts

    AI · 2023 · storiai.com

  • Kombai▲1,079

    A new AI model that you can prompt with UI designs

    AI · 2023 · kombai.com

  • Understand your audience without 50 interviews

    AI · 2023 · founderpal.ai

  • Lottielab▲869

    Create and ship lottie animations to sites and apps faster

    Dev tools · 2023 · lottielab.com

  • Outlines is a Python library that focuses on text generation with large language models. Brandon and I are not LLM experts and started the project a few months ago because we wanted to understand better how the generation process works. Our original background is probabilistic, relational and symbolic programming. Recently we came up with a fast way to generate text that matches a regex (https://blog.normalcomputing.ai/posts/2023-07-27-regex-guide...). The basic idea is simple: regular expressions have an equivalent Deterministic-Finite Automaton (DFA) representation. We…

    AI · 2023 · github.com