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Hello HN!

Over the past few weeks I created a new word game, https://spaceword.org. Every day, you are given a set of 21 letters that need to be arranged in a crossword (all directions forming valid words), while taking as little space as possible. There is also a weekly puzzle with 63 letters. You can see how you compare to others in real time, and there is a global leaderboard as well.

I've found it to be a fun puzzle game. I can usually form a crossword with 21 tiles pretty quickly, but optimizing to place them in a small bounding box is a challenging exercise. Today, the best result uses only 24 spaces (so either 83 or 46 tiles), meaning only 3 places are left empty!

Anyway, enjoy, and let me know if you have any feedback! :)

It’s great, love it!

Only negative - is there a way to play past games? Would like to get some practice in…

Hmmm not at the moment, may add this though. Have you tried the weekly puzzle?
How’d you build this? Did you use any of the new app builders or Cursor/Windsurf?