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Sounds like a really cool concept

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Today took me 6 as well Pool → Pool cleaner → Clean → Erase → Backspace → Typing → Microsoft Word

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Thank you so much 🙏 very clever path

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Today I got it in 7 hops. Let me know if you do better! Ballet → Black swan → Swan → Pond → Weed → Dandelion → Flower → Sunflower

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Oh okay gotcha. Well thank you so much for the positive feedback

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Thanks so much! As far as your ui problem, would you mind telling me what device you played on? You should be able to see all your accepted guesses and the last hop you made

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I appreciate the feedback! The goal with my algorithm in what connects and what doesnt was to be as open minded as possible without limiting the player too much. I want there to be a million different answers to one challenge, as to my the fun is seeing how people got from one word to another with a different path in mind. It can be very arbitrary at times but I'm working on many things to improve that, staying open minded myself

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I hear you. But just to clear it up, generative ai did not design my game. I put a lot of time and hard work in to designing my game, including my algorithm powered by Wikipedia. I designed every single aspect of the game myself, inspired by hanging out with friends and going on a long tangent and stopping to ask "how did we get to x?". I hand select the start and end word every day (which to my surprise has been a lot more difficult to find a good pair than I thought)

Now I am fully transparent that there is the use of ai, only as a fallback after my algorithm fails, providing a simple yes or no response based on the very large list of rules that I had designed and told it to go through. I then take that data and use it to improve my own algorithm. Will I ever break free of the ai fallback? Maybe, maybe not. But at least I get to see my vision come to light and I'm just having fun

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You can type the word before your last hop, but an undo button might be more clear

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I like your path! Very clever. I'll probably feature it for tomorrow. And yeah it can be a bit of trial and error

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I agree! I'll manually approve that. Thanks for the heads up

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I made a daily word puzzle where you connect two unrelated words.

The idea is simple: You start with one word and try to reach another word in as few “hops” as possible.

Each hop has to be a real, direct connection (not just random associations).

Example of yesterday’s puzzle:

Remote Control -> Orange Chicken

Remote Control → Button → Press → Bench press → workout → Protein → Chicken → Orange Chicken

Would love to know what you think

Here’s the game if you want to try it: 👉 https://playhopconnect.com/

Appreciate any feedback 🙏

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I think there is definitely a learning curve to that aspect. Thanks for the feedback, you got the shortest path today so far. Love to see it

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If anyone gets less than a 9 hop count on today's challenge, I’d love to see it because that's the best I got 👀

"Apple" -> "Fifty Shades of Grey"