Show HN: My daily word puzzle Jointter revisited
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Hello. This is a follow-up to the post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50317548 I've got tons of feedback. Thank you all so much for that! The main issue was an absence of tutorial. I've added it. Hope it helps. Since many people have played, I've noticed that many people start the game, but almost no one finishes it. Is the game hard? What is the main obstacle? Most people, when see opened HA......, try to enter the word that start with HA and give up, forgetting that the first letter…
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Show HN: My daily word puzzle Jointter revisited was first seen on Hacker News · Front page on Nov 9, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 43 checks on 2 different days, across 2 lists (Hacker News · Front page, Hacker News · Show HN). Its best position was #28 of 30, reached on Nov 9, 19:54 UTC. It dropped off the list after Nov 10, 14:51 UTC.
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| List | Best | Days | Checks | Last seen |
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| Hacker News · Front page | #28 | 1 | 4 | |
| Hacker News · Show HN | #8 | 2 | 39 |
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> How to improve the game, so that more people finish it? I tried to play today's and failed after 5 attempts. The attempt feedback is borderline incomprehensible to me, even with the tutorial. I understand what it's telling me, but it doesn't actually help me. I ended up with red lines all over the place, and they…
There’s probably a good game there, but there’s too much cruft on the screen which makes me feel overwhelmed. Ideally, I should be able to just intuit how the game works with as little instruction as possible. Less is more/simplify would be my advice. That’s from my own experience building games at Waffle Studio like…
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Not at the moment. It was last on the list on Nov 10, 14:51 UTC, after 2 days of trending.
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It was first seen on Nov 9, 2026 and has been on the list on 2 days (43 checks) since.
9 points and 4 comments; submitted by proy87 on Nov 9, 2026.