Wordsweeper – A word guessing game based on levenshtein distance
Hey HN, I’ve been trying to spend more time working on small fun projects and wanted to share with you a fun word guessing game I made inspired by Wordle and Minesweeper. Here’s how it works: You guess a 5 letter word, and get back a score representing the “distance” between your guess and the correct word. The lower the score, the closer you are to the correct word. The score is calculated by taking the sum of the distance between the letters of your guess and the correct word, multiplied by the levenshtein distance between the guess and the correct word. Scores for each guess are tallied…
Wordsweeper – A word guessing game based on levenshtein distance launched on May 12, 2024 with 5 votes, #1,921 of 4,539 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches.
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Hey HN, I’ve been trying to spend more time working on small fun projects and wanted to share with you a fun word guessing game I made inspired by Wordle and Minesweeper. Here’s how it works: You guess a 5 letter word, and get back a score representing the “distance” between your guess and the correct word. The lower…
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