Eric Sink

@jaketapper Shamelessly asking a famous CNN anchor to try our daily word puzzle: wordbox.game

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Have you tried our free daily word puzzle yet? 😀 wordbox.game

@ianlandsman Bummer. A similar thing happened to me years ago, I had to cancel a conference speaking session because my gall bladder threw a tantrum at exactly the wrong time. Best wishes, and be well.

I am shocked and distressed to share that I have been renewed as a Microsoft MVP for the 5th year. I mean, what were these people thinking? In terms of MVP stuff, I was SUCH a slacker this year. I guess now I need to turn over a new leaf. 😉 ( Er, thanks #MVPBuzz )

@jonbho Word Zero is currently an iOS app only. The other two are Word Max and Word Box, currently web apps. Lots left to do. :-)

@jonbho Ha. Winnable Solitaire. That's a blast from the past. That was never a terribly serious endeavor. With the current effort we are hoping to build something sustainable. We have 3 games now.

New word game! wordbox.game In the tradition of Wordle, one puzzle each day that can be played in a few minutes. Starting from a box of letters, use the clues and swap pairs of letters until every row and column forms a valid word.

@jonbho By allowing more obscure words like are seen in Scrabble play or crossword puzzles, the number of possible puzzles gets much larger, into the 10s or 100s of thousands.

@jonbho When constrained to very common English words, yes, the solution space is quite constrained. Around 2,600 possible puzzles for the 6x4 size.

@jonbho And thanks!

@eric_sink Pretty cool, liked the first day, will give it a try. Are there enough word combos that are also words across? Or is this a one/few off? 😅

@DamianEdwards Ditto. I didn’t see that coming.

This makes me LOL way more than it should 🤣

Me: Crossword board game apps have too much pointless fluff. I'll create "Word Zero". Also me: I wish I could find an excuse to put a physics engine into a word game app.

@csharpfritz But what is the right number of water-skiing squirrels in life? I understand the benefits of going from zero to one, but after that, there’s no obvious place to level off.

I need more water-skiing squirrels in my life

Want to try the new game we've been working on? 'Word Max is a daily crossword board game played in the "duplicate" style.' It should work in (most?) any web browser. This is the first public preview. Feedback welcome. wordmax.game

@SamErde @awakecoding I came here to say the same thing. Project Hail Mary. So good.

@awakecoding Project Hail Mary by Andrew Wier. So good.

My reading list is getting shorter. What are some good science fiction books you've read in recent years? 📚

Big shout-out to @sourcegear/@eric_sink , joining macroquad as the Platinum Sponsor and making this all possible. I am back to fulltime-ish work on *quads!

@BethMooreLPM I assume now it’s your worst scrunchie.

Pecos just threw up my best scrunchie.