Show HN: Redactle Unlimited – a Wikipedia based game (redactle-unlimited.com)

9 points by berjin 3y ago ↗ HN

I created this game based on the original game (redactle.com). I built it to play more than one game a day (hence the name) but I've since added many features; lemmatized word matching, multiplayer, multiple languages and several small things like annotations and letter counts. The front end is SvelteKit (static-apapter), back end is mostly node.js, go+Redis streams for multiplayer WS and it's running on k8s. Lemma dictionaries are cached in Azure blob storage.

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mikewarot 3y ago ↗

It's fun and frustrating, especially when it's someone like Nicolae Ceaușescu, who I knew of, but there's no way I could spell his name, ever.

saasxyz 3y ago ↗

Nice, I also thought making a similar wordle game based on Wikipedia articles.

berjin 3y ago ↗

If you do ever make a project I'd advise not publishing source code and obtaining a domain early. Initially this was an open source project on github pages but then redactleunlimited,com copied my work slapped a silly logo on the page then claimed to be me on social media. Now they've joined wordle-unlimited,io which is a modern eBaum's world of plagiarized games all linking each other for SEO.

mikewarot 3y ago ↗

I've had a lot of fun (and frustration) playing this over the past week.

I've learned that British entries use a slightly different set of words that just don't click with my American vocabulary... such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construction_engineering

I eventually had to give up and use google to find the answer...arrrrrhhhhhh