words.zip
Massively infinite word search
Details
- External ID
- 46588892
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- words.zip
- Website domain
- words.zip
- Launched
- Jan. 12, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 11
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5335968379446641
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Hi HN! This is a word search game I launched in the beginning of this year - didn't get much traction then, but it's been posted around a bit (right now getting some traffic from kottke.org) and now has over 12,000 words found!Now that it's a little more filled out I figured I'd share it again. Really enjoying seeing what everyone is making on it - it appears most people start by just adding a few words to the big clump in the middle, then adding to other people's projects (or ruining them) and finally working on their own little concepts. My favorite is the kitty to the north. Hope you enjoy!
Enrichment
- Theme
- indie puzzle games and learning toys
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- —
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- infinite word search game
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes An infinite canvas word search can be built in a weekend with an HTML5 canvas frontend, a dictionary trie, procedural or tiled grid generation, and a lightweight WebSocket/HTTP backend.
Discussion
5 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Boggle
Concerns raised: Unclear what 'drawings' means vs letters, Unclear what 'little projects' means
Feature requests: Point system for players
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 152 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #74 of 153 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 75 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.