I've built a words game based on binary search
Details
- External ID
- 48934092
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- I've built a words game based on binary search
- Website domain
- hilogame.cc
- Launched
- July 16, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 50
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8476702508960573
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- indie puzzle games and learning toys
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- —
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- word game based on binary search
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a simple frontend puzzle game implementing binary search logic across a static word dictionary.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Wordle
Concerns raised: UI arrows in blocks feel unintuitive, Using two different axes (up/down and left/right) for same information, Word filtering by offensiveness seems unnecessary, Gives more positioning hints than Wordle, making it easier
Feature requests: Practice mode or ability to play previous puzzles, Archive of past games, Easier difficulty mode, Full dictionary support for all 7-letter words
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 364 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #49 of 365 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 260 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Purple Word · hn · 2026-02-06 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- Letterphile-a word game where you try to make many words with 1 letter · hn · 2026-07-03 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- An endless scrolling word search game · hn · 2025-12-11 · 25 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Trail · hn · 2026-09-27 · 31 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Trail, a New Logic Game · hn · 2026-09-16 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Alphabet Soup, a multiplayer game, build the longest word to win · hn · 2026-08-09 · 37 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Gridl · hn · 2026-02-23 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.54
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.