I made a game about the 3k-year evolution of Chinese characters
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I've always found it fun to explore the history of Chinese characters.Some modern characters are unrecognizable from what they represent, while others still look similar to the versions carved in turtle shells over 3,000 years ago!I built a Heardle-inspired game where you guess the meaning of a Chinese character as it gradually transforms back through time to a more pictographic version. Let me know what you think.
HN · launched Oct 31, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 90%) · 0 views
Niche: educational games and learning tools · 207 launches, 24 in the last 7 days ▲ +50% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes It is a Heardle-style web game that shows historical character images from a public source (Wikimedia Commons) and checks guesses against a meaning list, all achievable with simple front-end code and a curated dataset.
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Competitors
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Attention rank: #382 of 391 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 367 days after the earliest competitor.
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