https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=theblorglerHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:29:52 +0000Blorgle is a daily word game with a community-driven dictionary and an old-school leaderboard. Players can petition to add or remove words, and dictionary changes are applied retroactively to everyone who played that day. The board-generation algorithm favors long, interesting words. Blorgle heavily features statistics: players can use meta-stats as hints to find words they've missed.

]]>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:10:48 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48733836theblorglerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48733836https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48733836Took me back to playing minesweeper as a kid. I managed to find myself in an end state that could only be resolved with a 50/50 guess. I don't remember if the classic version had this problem, but I think it would be nice to have a guarantee of no ambiguous boards.

]]>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:08:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48733812theblorglerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48733812https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48733812