Show HN: Chain-The-Words game that tests your vocab

2 martianmanhunt 5 7/9/2025, 2:30:10 PM chain-the-words.com ↗

I made this app which tests your vocabulary. You have to name a word for every letter of the current word, and the last word becomes your new word. It's in beta.

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celticninja · 2h ago

Time is also too short game ends because I occasionally choose to type a word with more than 6 characters

Also the keyboard in android covers the submit button so you have to exit the keyboard to submit and it times out.

I was on hard mode

martianmanhunt · 2h ago

Thanks that's very useful. It's currently at 5 seconds but maybe I should make it 10. On mobile versions I tried to add the "hit enter to submit" functionality but are you not finding that to be the case?

martianmanhunt · 2h ago

Changed it to 10s. Thanks for the feedback!

celticninja · 2h ago

The word list is limited.

I got "umbrella" is not a valid word.

martianmanhunt · 2h ago

Thanks that is strange. I am using the array of english words library but maybe needs to be something better.

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