Crossle
Scrabble meets crossword game
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Hello HN,I created Crossle after playing a dice version of this once. it's web/mobile only with mechanics similar to wordle. the object is to create a crossword using scrabble words that is fully connected and each word is at least 3 characters long. all letters must be used. Fun weekend coding project that I'd love to get any feedback on.thanks!
HN · launched Mar 18, 2026 · 11 upvotes (top 39%) · 0 views
Niche: browser puzzle games · 310 launches, 26 in the last 7 days ▼ -7% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Vertical SaaS
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Yes This is a self-contained client-side word puzzle game with straightforward tile-placement mechanics, word validation against a static dictionary, and local score tracking.
Discussion
15 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Moving tiles cumbersome and difficult, Difficulty classification missing, No variable difficulty levels yet
Feature requests: Keyboard interactions for tile movement, Move groups of tiles at once, Scroll the grid, Classify puzzles by difficulty
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 396 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #143 of 397 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 140 days after the earliest competitor.
- Wordsicle · ph · 2026-10-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- Words Corner · ph · 2026-11-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- I built a dual crossword puzzle where two crosswords share one grid · hn · 2026-04-27 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Jointter · hn · 2026-10-31 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- 5 Letterr Words · ph · 2026-10-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Crossword Challenge · ph · 2026-09-23 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- WordyLab · ph · 2026-10-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Word Tiles · ph · 2026-10-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
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