Three Emojis, a daily word puzzle for language learners
Details
- External ID
- 45850125
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- Three Emojis, a daily word puzzle for language learners
- Website domain
- threeemojis.com
- Launched
- Nov. 7, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 33
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7685589519650655
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
I'm in the process of learning German and wanted to play a German version of the NYT’s Spelling Bee. It was awful, I was very bad at it, it was not fun. So I built my own version of Spelling Bee meant for people like me.Three Emojis is a daily word game designed for language learners. You get seven letters and a list of blanked-out words to find. When you discover shorter words, they automatically fill into longer ones—like a crossword—which turns out to be really useful for languages like German.Each word also gets three emojis assigned to it as a clue, created by GPT-5 to try and capture the word’s meaning (this works surprisingly well, most of the time). If you get stuck, you can get text/audio hints as well.It supports German and English, with new puzzles every day. You can flag missing words or suggest additions directly in the game. The word lists include slang, abbreviations, and chat-speak—because those are, in my opinion, a big part of real language learning too (just nothing vulgar, too obscure or obsolete).Every word you find comes with its definition and pronunciation audio. If you want infinite hints or (coming soon) archive access, you can upgrade to Pro.Feedback is very welcome, it's my first game and I'm certainly not a frontend guy. Happy spelling!
Enrichment
- Theme
- indie puzzle games and learning toys
- Vertical
- Education
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- daily word puzzle for language learners
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The core app is a daily word puzzle (similar to Spelling Bee or Wordle) easily implemented as a client-side web app using dictionary lists and basic state management.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Performance issues on older Android devices, Game too long at 67-100 words for daily play, Unclear/archaic words like interjections and acronyms, Background emoji animation causes overheating on iPhone
Feature requests: Toggle to disable falling emoji animations, Harder difficulty mode (Three Emojis++ without 2-3 letter words), Performance mode for low-end devices, Better filtering of acronyms and interjections
Competitors
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Launched 9 days after the earliest competitor.
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- No other launches for this product.
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