18 Words, Zanagrams and Sunflowers Are Now PZL Games
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A few months ago I shared 18 Words, Zanagrams and Sunflowers here, which loads of you ended up playing and sending really useful feedback.I’ve now brought all three together into PZL games along with three new daily games.Just wanted to say thanks to everyone here who played, commented and helped improve them. HN has been a big part of getting these games off the ground. I'v now had over 1 million players across them.Would love to hear what you think of the new site, and any feedback is very welcome.
HN · launched Aug 28, 2026 · 8 upvotes (top 53%) · 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
- Commercial product
More like this: all 310 launches in browser puzzle games →
Could you build this?
Yes This is a collection of casual browser-based daily word/puzzle games which can easily be created using standard frontend web technologies like React or vanilla JavaScript.
Discussion
3 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Cannot go back a step in test mode, only discard, Can only play daily levels, not other modes, Feedback form is broken, Off by one bug: results page time 1 second more than in-game elapsed time
Feature requests: Restore ability to go back a step in test mode
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 292 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #141 of 293 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 303 days after the earliest competitor.
- words.zip · hn · 2026-01-12 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Tiled Words, a daily puzzle inspired by board games and crosswords · hn · 2025-10-29 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- My daily word puzzle Jointter revisited · hn · 2026-11-09 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- I Recreated Encarta's MindMaze · hn · 2026-04-20 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Play Zener Cards · hn · 2026-01-30 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- An endless scrolling word search game · hn · 2025-12-11 · 25 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Three Emojis, a daily word puzzle for language learners · hn · 2025-11-07 · 33 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Hexalexagons, a daily word game on a hexagonal grid · hn · 2026-11-13 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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