Show HN: Word Wars- HTML5 real time word game

A couple of weeks ago, my friends and I built a word game during a hackathon and got a great reception from people who played it. Previous HN thread: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3750068" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3750068</a> My friends have cleaned up a lot of the UI and the code, and have published it under a new name. It uses now.js in the backend, and is all html5/js. Let me know what you think!<p>The game works well on mobile devices too. iPad has the best experience :)

The English language really has a delightful amount of three-letter words. I don't know all of them, but guessing gives me a high chance it actually exists.<p>One issue: Sometimes I want to start with some letter, but the game only marks the second letter, rendering the selection incorrect. Might be due to my computer being busy with some simulations though.

Just sunk about 30 mins into this. NYT Magazine last Sunday had an article (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/magazine/angry-birds-farmville-and-other-hyperaddictive-stupid-games.html?pagewanted=all" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/magazine/angry-birds-farmv...</a>) about "stupid games" that are highly addictive. Case in point.

Very nicely done! Polish up the UI and you this could be a real winner...the game play really works (and that's what really matters).<p>Makes me think again about updating my game, the original Word Wars (<a href="http://www.impulsedriven.com/ww" rel="nofollow">http://www.impulsedriven.com/ww</a>) to the web...<p>I'd really be interested to hear how the dictionary parser was done.

This is awesome and really pretty addictive. Although I was able to type and drag the cursor around randomly and pick up little words like 'pe' or 'th' it almost seemed like a stupid exploit. And another thing is the after game stats are really pretty interesting, if there was a way to view them longer than ten seconds that would be great!

As a Scramble with Friends addict this is clearly up my ally. I actually find the mouse to be faster because the keyboard is too unpredictable and it's too disruptive to completing a word. There must be something there since I was consistently getting the top score.

Really super buggy...using Chrome on Mac 10.7...letters get stuck all the time, sometimes keys don't register...needs work, but looks like an addictive concept, if I could make it through one round without it misregistering my keystrokes...

Great game! Although there was a problem with the leaderboard. A couple of times the leaderboard showed up only for a fraction of a second and then disappeared. I'm assuming it took too long to load and by that time the next round started.

Love it! Super addicting. My only complaint with these types of games is that I always feel like people are cheating.<p>But at least it makes me feel better about how bad I am at these word games ;)

I have the impression that it allows quite a lot of spanish. No german, no french, but spanish. Interesting. Where do you get the words from?

I tried clicking on top words or something in the leaderboard and it just went to a new game (Win/FF).

Does it drops high scores fron the leaderboard?<p>I've got 155, and then it is replaced by 147

What does "We see you haven't installed Word Wars" mean? How is a web app 'installed'?

Cool game. FYI, when you visit the site using IE9 it just remains stuck at "Loading".

Using FF 9 here, and I'm stuck on the loading/waiting for next round page :(

Damn, this game is a ton of fun!