I’m building a daily word puzzle game with a twist!

In Tiled Words you rearrange tiles to solve clues and rebuild a broken crossword.

You can play a demo at https://tiledwords.com - it’s free and web based so it works on whatever device you’ve got.

I’ll be officially launching on October 19th at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo. You can sign up to be notified on launch. Starting then there will be a new puzzle every day!

So far I’ve gotten really positive feedback and have around 100 people signed up to get notified. It’s been a lot of fun to build!

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CamperBob2 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Cool idea. One suggestion is to allow a selection box to be dragged around a block of letters. Once selected, all of the tiles in the area could be dragged at once.

That would reduce the frustration of having to move a large chunk of words around piece by piece. It would be better than the existing affordance, which moves the whole grid.

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paulhebert 3 days ago | parent [-]

Thanks! I experimented with this but struggled making it feel natural on mobile.

I ended up implementing an alternate solution that I’m hoping solves for the same paint point.

My current dev build “merges” tiles when you connect them to complete a word. This allows you to move them as

I’m going to release a demo with that feature soon. My core playtesters seem to like it but I want to get more feedback on it from a larger group!

	▲	vhantz 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Merging is exactly what I expected when I put chunks together, with tap to separate them again.

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craig227 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The UX is phenomenal. Easily in the top 1% of daily word puzzles. Love the concept, I'm sure it will do well at your launch!!

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shlomo_z 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

This is such a nice comment, and I only checked out the website because of your comment! I am glad I did. Indeed a spectacular puzzle.

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paulhebert 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That’s lovely to hear! Thank you!

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paulhebert 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

playlin.io is super cool! Nice job! I’ll submit my game there when it launches :)

	▲	craig227 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Thank you! Happy to feature your game, I've played a _lot_ putting together Playlin so I have a pretty good sense of what's out there.

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hacb 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Really cool, congrats! The UI is clean, everything is smooth, I like it :) Can't wait for the release

	▲	paulhebert 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Thank you!

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yakshaving_jgt 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I shared this with my colleagues at work. Got this feedback:

> This is amazing. I could lose days to this.

	▲	paulhebert 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		That’s lovely to hear? Thanks for sharing it!

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robtaylor 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Love this - did you buy the name or was it free to reg? (nosey!)

	▲	paulhebert 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		It was available to register at a normal rate!

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anythingworks 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

love the UI! one feedback I have is it would be nice to be able to use arrow keys on the desktop website to move the tiles

	▲	paulhebert 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Thanks! Keyboard support is on my road map