triplit.com• Jan 16, 2025• 1 min read
Show HN: Triplit, a new daily word gameMy partner and I built a daily word game that has elements of the Mini Crossword, Wordle, and Spelling Bee, with some twists all its own.I’ve been fairly obsessed with the New York Times crossword puzzle ever since I saw the documentary Wordplay about 12 years ago. I started with Mondays and gradually made my way up to Saturdays, and when I began to appreciate the puzzles as aesthetic objects worthy of appreciation and criticism (rather than just a slog to survive and then brag about), I began to wonder what it would be like to create puzzles. But making full crossword puzzles was always very daunting to me.Luckily, my partner got an idea for a new word game while on vacation in Italy over-caffeinated on espresso, and boom! Triplit was born.We feel that after the smashing success of Wordle, the time is ripe for a new quick daily word game. To us, Triplit combines the playful, at times cryptic clueing of crosswords with the mental manipulation of Spelling Bee and the feedback and scorin