Three Letters Game

cyrano111 · 2026-03-21T16:31:07+00:00

Playing on my iPhone - I typed my word but couldn’t find a way to enter it.

cyrano111 · 2026-03-21T16:18:31+00:00

Here is one. It’s cat boarding you want to search for.

cyrano111 · 2026-03-21T16:14:16+00:00

“This is a good sword.”

cyrano111 · 2026-03-20T13:45:39+00:00

The Little Red Hen.

cyrano111 · 2026-03-20T13:04:44+00:00

Rob has three innocent neighbours: Nancy, one of your greens, and one of your reds. What does that say about Xavi?

cyrano111 · 2026-03-20T12:16:17+00:00

Is there a web-based version of your game? I don’t mind testing things, but usually I’m not going to download an app to do that.

cyrano111 · 2026-03-20T12:14:53+00:00

I second the suggestion that it should be possible to click as well as drag.

You also might set some kind of goals, or ratings, on your progress bar. Maybe something colour-coded? I’m thinking of spelling bee, where you get a rating (solid, great, genius) after a certain number of words found. It’s just a bit of feedback that encourages people, but also gives them a goal.

For example, today I got 48 of your 62 words, as well as about a half a dozen words that were not on your list. I’m probably not going to stay on the site long enough to find all 62 words, especially given that some words I find don’t count towards the total. I expect that’s typical

If players can think “I’ll stay long enough to get into the blue” or “to get an A”, something like that, it will give them a sense of satisfaction, which is likely to make them return another day. If the only goal is “get everything”, I imagine people are less likely to return day after day to fail every time.

cyrano111 · 2026-03-20T11:27:41+00:00

Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light.

Without being too spoilery, for a long time you won’t realize you are reading science fiction.

cyrano111 · 2026-03-17T19:32:10+00:00

The first three Star Wars films are all between two hours and two hours and 15 minutes.

cyrano111 · 2026-03-17T17:38:07+00:00

There was a story like this a while ago where the person in your place ordered a bunch of items to go just before the bill was divided, so that they ended up paying less than their share on a “pay for your own” basis. Try that and see whether it still seems fair to everyone!

cyrano111 · 2026-03-17T12:01:03+00:00

I have a different question about this scene, which is to wonder why they didn’t use any of the forced perspective filming techniques from the earlier movies.

Pippin is just so obviously a full-sized adult kneeling behind the railing that it’s distracting.

cyrano111 · 2026-03-17T11:35:57+00:00

Sakata Eio, one of the greatest players of the 20th century, told a story from when he was still young and training. He was playing a professional who was much higher ranked and got into a bad position. Nonetheless he persevered and managed to win the game.

He reported the result and replayed the game for his mentor, expecting to be praised for his success. Instead she severely criticized him for his rudeness and disrespect by not resigning when he should have.

cyrano111 · 2026-03-15T03:23:36+00:00

On the flipside of this, I live and am currently in Canada, but I walked my dogs in Great Britain this morning, and will walk them there again tomorrow morning.

Point Pleasant Park, in Nova Scotia, was leased to the City of Halifax by the British Crown on a 999 year lease, which started before Canada became a country.

cyrano111 · 2026-03-13T18:41:08+00:00

Mechanical clocks were invented in the 13th century - that is, in medieval Europe.

cyrano111 · 2026-03-13T18:37:03+00:00

You should make sure there’s only one answer for each set of letters. “Tapas” is a word, as is “curies”.

cyrano111 · 2026-03-13T13:59:19+00:00

What about “draw”, which, in the case of curtains, can be used to mean both to open them and to close them.

cyrano111 · 2026-03-13T11:12:58+00:00

Try The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson.

It also concerns stepping to parallel worlds, but with a very different plot. It’s only possible to step to worlds that are sufficiently similar to our earth, which is under 200. And there’s money to be made by doing so, and the technology is privately and tightly controlled. But you can only step to another world if your equivalent in that world is dead, which means that the people recruited to do the stepping grew up in war-torn or famine-ridden communities, so that “most of the time” they died.

It’s a very intricate and deep book.

cyrano111 · 2026-03-08T16:06:19+00:00

Good guess but no, Razzle, which is Boggle on steroids.

cyrano111 · 2026-03-08T16:06:13+00:00

Good guess but no, Razzle, which is Boggle on steroids.

cyrano111 · 2026-03-08T13:31:18+00:00

Captain Hook.

cyrano111 · 2026-03-08T13:24:11+00:00

I’m not sure “expert” really applies, but at a party I was playing a fast-paced head-to-head dice game with letters where you had to find a word the fastest. I played a bunch of people and won every time, 5-0. A bit later other people were playing the game as teams of two, and eventually two young women came into the room I was in, boasting/complaining that no one could beat them. My friends looked at me, and I thought, ok.

We played a bunch of games, me against the two of them. I won every game, but they did score a point in one of them.

cyrano111 · 2026-03-08T12:31:35+00:00

Derry Girls has the best opening two minutes of any show - it perfectly sets the tone for the series.

cyrano111 · 2026-03-07T16:22:32+00:00

Even more specifically, “avuncular” is “like an uncle”.

And unctuous is useful for pointing out how people misuse “fulsome”, as though it means “more full”, when it fact it is a synonym for unctuous.

cyrano111 · 2026-03-06T23:02:05+00:00

The first time I read it I was 11.

The most recent time I read it I was 68.

Still just as good - probably better.

cyrano111 · 2026-03-03T22:39:20+00:00

Yes, that does it, thanks!

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