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74 points by damiannn ↗ HN
Hey folks,

I built Hisorty, a small daily game where you sort historical events in chronological order (strongly inspired by Wordle mechanics).

Each day you get 6 events and 3 attempts to place them correctly.

I found it surprisingly tricky to design those puzzles so the difficulty is just about right.

Would love feedback on: - difficulty balance - UI/UX - whether the concept feels engaging long-term

Happy to answer any questions about how I built it.

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jordanscales
Nice work! I'd consider ditching the AI art though, it was distracting.
AndrewKemendo
I like it! A quality old school learning game, like we had in the 90s

I’m also a huge history guy so anything that helps people understand history better is great

Was the goal just to make this for yourself and see how it goes?

tdb7893
How accurate are these pictures? I feel like I see ideas like this on HN pretty often and the art always gets things wrong. Like all the same clean armor during the first crusade seems doubtful and two swords on horseback just seems wacky. Two swords like that is dumb normally but also how do you control the horse lmao
wwalker2112
Very fun. Would you consider putting years on the timeline to match the events up to? I think from an education perspective it would be a great feature! Nice Work!
J0rdanius
Neat! I think with more events (~9) and obscure ones it would be more fun. I also think it would be fun to make it possible to play previous days. Bookmarked.
defrost
Noodling kind of question, Share results / copy to Clipboard both seem to put the same string in the local clipboard:

Hisorty #9 1/3 https://hisorty.app

( the six green squares don't render on HN ) ... which is still a string that can be readily edited.

It's more resources your end to save game results for a specific play and generate a unique checksummed hash key for a third party URL lookup, sure, so I guess the question is how important is it for players to reliably share their results in a manner that is hard than a simple edit to 'cheat' on?

snarf21
Maybe I missed it but if I don't solve in time, it didn't show me the correct answers.
delichon
A fun variation would be to create the cards from social media posts or articles, stripped of dates. It's astonishing how little context the geoguessers need, I expect the same for chronoguessers.
coder97
Nice game. I can see myself playing this daily.

How do you plan to feed the questions? Is it with AI or manual work?

emberfiend
cool game, maybe consider removing the eternally looping animation in the header, it's pretty visually distracting
everyone
awesome! but the one per day thing kills it for me.. I want to play like 10 in a row and then forget about it for a few months.
SkepticalWhale
Very cool! Consider adding a wikipedia link to each card after the game is over.
techsystems
Cool, I would play this

Hopefully EMEA isn't all of history /s

natloz
Wow, just played my first game and I wild-guessed it and got it right in 1 attempt. Maybe time to go buy a lotto ticket...I honestly had no clue! Good job on the easy-to-use interface.
freema77
Fun game. I like the name! Consider making the card description two rows on mobile. All of them got truncated, so I had to click on them to be able to read the last word. I think you have space for the full text.