I've built a words game based on binary search
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HN · launched Jul 16, 2026 · 50 upvotes (top 15%) · 1 view
Niche: browser puzzle games · 310 launches, 26 in the last 7 days ▼ -7% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 310 launches in browser puzzle games →
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 : 939 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #129 of 940 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 260 days after the earliest competitor.
- A word game a friend and I built. How did we do? · hn · 2026-02-16 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- Purple Word · hn · 2026-02-06 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- Wordchute · hn · 2026-10-18 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- Letterphile-a word game where you try to make many words with 1 letter · hn · 2026-07-03 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- An NLP based word game for users to play against Astra, Opus, and more · hn · 2026-11-06 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- An endless scrolling word search game · hn · 2025-12-11 · 25 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Trail · hn · 2026-09-27 · 31 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Trail, a New Logic Game · hn · 2026-09-16 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.56
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