Show HN: Antonemo – A Game of Words and Their Opposites (opens in new tab)

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2 pointssherlockdoyle2y ago2 comments

I had the idea to build this game when the Wordle craze was going on. Antonemo is somewhat inspired by the hard mode of Wordle. I finally built the game now as I wanted to learn some new web frameworks. To my knowledge, no other similar game exists.

In Antonemo, your goal is to construct words and unlock letters by finding their antonyms, which then allows you to create even more words. For a more detailed understanding of the game-play, you can refer to the in-game instructions or the GitHub README.

The game offers a challenging yet educational experience, allowing players to expand their vocabulary and learn about new words. If you’re ever stuck, the game provides hints for both words and their antonyms. The game also features multiple word lists that you can cycle through for an ever-changing challenge.

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jdwg2y ago

I found this fun! But my plan to gain access to M by taking the opposite of DAD was prevented by the word list. How is the list generated?

sherlockdoyleOP2y ago

I have three word lists of different sizes. The smallest one contains the most common English words. The word 'DAD' is apparently not common enough :). The larger two lists are from different machine learning datasets (you can find the sources in GitHub). The easy and hard mode also has different words.

I will add the word 'DAD' to the hand-picked list.

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