words.zip
Massively infinite word search
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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!
HN · launched Jan 12, 2026 · 11 upvotes (top 47%) · 0 views
Niche: browser puzzle games · 310 launches, 26 in the last 7 days ▼ -7% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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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
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Attention rank: #143 of 317 (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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