Turntiles, an NYT style word game I made for my parents
24 points by wheybags
24 points by wheybags
A little more explanation in the directions would have helped:
The goal is to fit all the supplied letters into the map to form words, in the shortest amount of time.
The supplied letters come with an orientation; they can only fit in spaces sharing the same orientation.
Neither of those things were obvious to me at first. I spent a while thinking that there were partial solutions that would score points, or that I could reorient some letters.
Delightful. My parents would have loved it too. Thank you for sharing.
(The 2025-12-31 puzzle stumped me for a bit, until I learned a British English word that isn't used in North America by process of elimination. Perfectly reasonable for the shoe to be on the other foot, but might merit a line in the 'how to play' dialog.)
I have refined the word list since then, amongst other things I removed words that are spelled differently in US vs British English, and tried my best to manually remove dialect words.
I did that specifically because I love the NYT's connections game, but I'm often super frustrated when they use something like "famous baseball players" or "classic SNL sketches" that I have no hope of getting.
Heh - I get that with Connections completely. They sometimes have categories that I'd never have a clue about, or that are just flat out wrong here. The most recent one was claiming that "outie" and "Audi" were homophones. Not to a Canadian ear.
Love it! Great concept and nice easy to use UI (better than the new pips game which has issues around dragging the pieces around)