Unwordy
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A game about re-assembling common words into rare ones.
Screenshot & Game Link
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How to Play
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All instructions are given during the game. Only a mouse and keyboard is needed.
There are two phases to this game:
Words will fly across the screen. Collect them by hovering your mouse over each one.
The letters composing the flying words will be added into the letter-bank.
Using the letters from the letter-bank, enter as many valid English words (as defined by open-dictionary.github.io) as you can. Longer words gives better score, but common words used by previous players will not count.
The words you enter in Phase 2 will then be added into the word pool. Phase 1 will then grab about 750 most-frequently entered words from that word pool.
#### Quick Tip!
In other words, it's worth memorizing the words flying in Phase 1, as those words will likely not give any points in Phase 2.
* Common words: 0 points
* A word is considered common if enough players have entered them in Phase 2
* Rare words: worth the number of letters in the word
* Words are considered rare if it is within the top-10% least-frequently entered word list, or is within the top 1000; whichever list ends up being shorter.
* New words: worth *double* the number of letters in the word
* If previous players haven't entered the word, yet, it's considered new.
Credits
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* @omiya-games did full-stack development.
* open-dictionary.github.io for the English dictionary API
Dev Notes
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I hate programming in PHP and Javascript.
* Firefox may have rendering issues.
* Example: the name entry for leaderboard is supposed to render red text indicating one needs to enter exactly 3 alphanumeric characters. This doesn't render in some browsers.
Screenshot & Game Link
===
How to Play
===
All instructions are given during the game. Only a mouse and keyboard is needed.
There are two phases to this game:
Phase 1
Words will fly across the screen. Collect them by hovering your mouse over each one.
The letters composing the flying words will be added into the letter-bank.
Phase 2
Using the letters from the letter-bank, enter as many valid English words (as defined by open-dictionary.github.io) as you can. Longer words gives better score, but common words used by previous players will not count.
The words you enter in Phase 2 will then be added into the word pool. Phase 1 will then grab about 750 most-frequently entered words from that word pool.
#### Quick Tip!
In other words, it's worth memorizing the words flying in Phase 1, as those words will likely not give any points in Phase 2.
Scoring details
* Common words: 0 points
* A word is considered common if enough players have entered them in Phase 2
* Rare words: worth the number of letters in the word
* Words are considered rare if it is within the top-10% least-frequently entered word list, or is within the top 1000; whichever list ends up being shorter.
* New words: worth *double* the number of letters in the word
* If previous players haven't entered the word, yet, it's considered new.
Credits
===
* @omiya-games did full-stack development.
* open-dictionary.github.io for the English dictionary API
Dev Notes
===
I hate programming in PHP and Javascript.
Known Issues
* Firefox may have rendering issues.
* Example: the name entry for leaderboard is supposed to render red text indicating one needs to enter exactly 3 alphanumeric characters. This doesn't render in some browsers.
| Version | For Judging? | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| v0.2.3 | Yes | 2025/10/06 | Made a series of UI fixes: fix leaderboard date display, made leaderboard name entry smaller. |
| v0.2.0 | Yes | 2025/10/06 | Added a leaderboard. It grabs the last 100 entered scores, then sorts them. |
| v0.1.0 | Yes | 2025/10/06 | Initial upload. Word submission working. |