Building an Unlimited Wordle-Style Game: Duplicate Letters, Word Bags, Streaks, and Accessible FeedbackMost Wordle clones get one of four things wrong: duplicate-letter scoring, repeated words in unlimited mode, fragile streak and stats storage, or colour-only feedback. This post shows how to fix each 2d ago · 9 min readcanuckle.hashnode.dev
Generating Solvable Waffle Puzzles: Crossing Constraints, Seeded Scrambles, and Duplicate-Letter ScoringA waffle puzzle looks like a 5x5 grid, but if you model it that way, the code gets awkward fast. The board has gaps, the words share letters, and the scramble has to leave the player with something th2d ago · 9 min readcanuckle.hashnode.dev
Scaling a Web Puzzle Game: Architecture, SEO Schemas, and State IsolationIf you search for web-based word puzzle games today, you will find thousands of implementations. Most are quick forks of open-source Wordle repos—single-page apps with a hardcoded dictionary array andAug 17 · 4 min readcanuckle.hashnode.dev
