Have you ever wanted to make your own version of the NYT’s Spelling Bee?\u00a0 Sure, it’s easy to just put down seven letters on a piece of paper, but what about scoring?\u00a0 Acceptable words?\u00a0 Easy playability?\u00a0 To my knowledge, something like that doesn’t exist.\u00a0 Until now!<\/p>\n
Check out Hexagon Lexicon<\/a>, our please-don’t-sue-me-named word game that may or may not share certain similarities with another popular word game out there.\u00a0 Just like that other word game, you can visit that site daily to get a new puzzle, though it won’t be quite as curated as others.\u00a0 That’s not the most interesting part, though — that would be the build-your-own feature<\/a>, the page where you set the letters you want to be in your very own hexagonal puzzle.\u00a0 Once you’ve set the letters you want to be in your puzzle, you can see how many words are available, what the max score is, and how many pangrams it has.\u00a0 You can then remove any words you don’t think are common enough and get a permalink you can share with others who might want to play your game.\u00a0 We made this one that we like a lot<\/a>, and for the memes, may we humbly present this one<\/a>. We can’t wait to see what others will come up with!<\/p>\n Want to host this on your site instead of linking to ours?\u00a0 No problem.\u00a0 All the code is hosted on GitHub<\/a>, released under the Apache-2.0 License<\/a>.\u00a0 Feel free to just grab the code and post it on your site.\u00a0 If you know some CSS and want to make it look even better, pull requests are more than welcome!<\/p>\n Special thanks go out to Norah<\/a> for suggesting this idea, lzha97<\/a> and Sabrina Ang<\/a> for contributing the original code (and agreeing to release it under a permissive license!), and Parker<\/a> for pointing me toward the word list we’re using for these purposes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Have you ever wanted to make your own version of the NYT’s Spelling Bee?\u00a0 Sure, it’s easy to just put down seven letters on a piece of paper, but what about scoring?\u00a0 Acceptable words?\u00a0 Easy playability?\u00a0 To my knowledge, something like that doesn’t exist.\u00a0 Until now! Check out Hexagon Lexicon, our please-don’t-sue-me-named word game that…<\/p>\n