20,000 words
which is the middle?
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HN · launched Aug 27, 2026 · 6 upvotes (top 69%) · 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
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 310 launches in browser puzzle games →
Could you build this?
Yes This is a simple binary search or trivia/word guessing web game based on finding the median word among a set of 20,000 words, implementable purely with client-side JavaScript.
Discussion
3 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Small English vocabulary makes game difficult, Keyboard entry obscures bottom of screen on Android
Feature requests: Support for other languages, Auto-clear keyboard after guess on Android
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 150 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #110 of 151 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 302 days after the earliest competitor.
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- wordwise · github · 2026-09-14 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- The Whole Day · ph · 2026-10-18 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Compare Wikipedia articles between languages in the Middle East · hn · 2026-08-11 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- words.zip · hn · 2026-01-12 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Sentence Starters · hn · 2025-12-22 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Opening lines of famous literary works · hn · 2026-07-14 · 183 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Recabulary · ph · 2026-11-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.41
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