Show HN: Letterphile – a word game you try to make many words with 1 letter (play.letterphile.com)

3 points by sonOfHades 1mo ago ↗ HN

Challenge with AI (easy, medium, expert), your friends, or solve daily puzzles in this strategic word game where you try to find the best placement for your letter that makes as many words as possible in all directions (across, down, diagonal, and reverse)

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nwarner0 1mo ago ↗

Good concept. Why does it not allow the same word more than once - no way I'm going to remember.

sonOfHades 1mo ago ↗

The reason is to make the game challenging so that players can come up with unique words. There is also words played dict which lets you see all the words you have played thus far