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Show HN: I've built a words game based on binary search

Hacker News Top · 2d ago Cached

Hilo is a daily word puzzle that blends vocabulary with alphabetical reasoning, using hi/lo clues to narrow down each letter of a 7-letter word, emphasizing logic and deduction over obscure knowledge.

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Show HN: One More Letter

Hacker News Top · 3d ago

One More Letter is a word puzzle game where players add a single letter to transform words.

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Exapunks (2018)

Hacker News Top · 2026-07-02 Cached

EXAPUNKS is a 2018 programming puzzle game by Zachtronics where players write viruses to hack networks. The page also offers physical zine sets and a custom puzzle creation tool.

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How information theory saved my word game

Hacker News Top · 2026-06-28 Cached

The article describes the author's journey building a word game that requires pure deduction without guessing, and how information theory helped overcome the challenge of generating solvable puzzles.

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History of the Muddy Children Puzzle

arXiv cs.AI · 2026-06-15 Cached

This paper traces the origin and history of the Muddy Children Puzzle, a classic epistemic logic puzzle, through publications spanning two centuries, and presents a novel hats puzzle involving self-reference.

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Show HN: Putt.day a daily mini golf game

Hacker News Top · 2026-06-12 Cached

Putt.day is a daily mini golf game where players can play a new hole each day.

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Crypto Guys Bought the Answer to the CIA’s Mysterious Kryptos Sculpture

Wired · 2026-06-12 Cached

A crypto VC firm, Paradigm, purchased the answer to the CIA's Kryptos sculpture puzzle for nearly a million dollars, taking over the role of verifying solutions.

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JS Crossword - a crossword where the clue = eval(answer)

Lobsters Hottest · 2026-05-24 Cached

JS Crossword is a web-based crossword puzzle where each clue is the result of evaluating the JavaScript expression that is the answer. It uses obscure and cursed JS features, aimed at experienced JavaScript developers.

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Solving the NYTimes Pips puzzle with a constraint solver

Ken Shirriff · 2025-10-18 Cached

The author describes using the MiniZinc constraint solver to solve The New York Times Pips puzzle, demonstrating how to express constraints and find solutions efficiently.

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