Show HN: Cobble – A hard daily word game

18 wolfred 13 7/17/2025, 1:12:33 AM wilf.live ↗

How to play:

1. You're given a set of letters (such as "ZXCVBNM")

2. Come up with two words that use all the letters (like "convex zombie")

3. The shorter the words, the better!

Comments (13)

degamad · 3h ago

Cute game! A way to sign up without a google account would be nice, but since it's playable without it, that's good enough for me for now.

pimlottc · 3h ago

I completed the puzzle and it said “Good”. Then I looked at the scoreboard and other people got numerical scores? And I didn’t?

v64 · 3h ago

your score is the length of your two words plus the space

gsliepen · 1h ago

What if you find one word that covers all the letters, like "highlighted"?

MinimalAction · 56m ago

There are two Ts in the prompt. Choose a long second word with a T in it.

Wistar · 4h ago

A bit surprised that TILTH is not in the acceptable word list.

eszed · 49m ago

Nor was "hilted", so I came back here to complain about the word list. :-)

spookie · 59m ago

Could make it with 2 common words for 11. But a second attempt used archaic ones.

It's a bit limited though

floren · 1h ago

Ah, so I'm not the only one!

d--b · 3h ago

You shouldn’t force people to create an account. Pretty much all other xxxle games are login-free.

degamad · 2h ago

I was able to play without an account, when did it force you to create one?

spookie · 58m ago

Before it did.

vrosas · 2h ago

Neat. Remove the need to log in and use the regular keyboard, please.

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Show HN: Cobble – A hard daily word game

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