20,000 words
which is the middle?
Details
- External ID
- 49462700
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- 20,000 words
- Website domain
- pzlgames.com
- Launched
- Aug. 27, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3125
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- indie puzzle games and learning toys
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- —
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- word guessing game
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 62 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #35 of 63 (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
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- words.zip · hn · 2026-01-12 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Opening lines of famous literary works · hn · 2026-07-14 · 183 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Sentence Starters · hn · 2025-12-22 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- middle place · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Lastwordonearth.com · hn · 2026-06-18 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.39
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.