Show HN: An album art-based Wordle clone called UNCVR

by aaronlevin • 4 years ago

18 8 4 years ago

This is very hard, cool concept though!

Sadly these days I hardly know any of the artists/albums I listen to. Everything is shuffled and new and usually in the background while I work.

suyula• 4 years ago

2 clicks and 1 guess :-) I love that album.

Cool idea, but sadly it's probably a decade too late, since album art isn't as visible nowadays.

stavros• 4 years ago

I got it with zero clicks because I wasn't aware you were supposed to click. The interface is a bit confusing.

mypalmike• 4 years ago

How is this a wordle clone?

netsharc• 4 years ago

To be very harsh, it's not even a game of skill (I clicked some squares and got the title as written on the cover), and I guess the author wants to go viral, but huh, tweeting the info about what squares you clicked spoil the game for others...

aaronlevin2• 4 years ago

Author here. I was inspired to make this by thinking about how Wordle, a game where a word is slowly unraveled by guessing letters, could apply to images (and specifically album art).

Perhaps clone is a poor word here and inspiration would be more accurate.

mustardgreen• 4 years ago

I agree with others about the clicks. I weirdly got it on the first guess and thought it would be revealed after. Or more of the squares would be revealed per guess a la wordle

aaronlevin2• 4 years ago

Something I’ve noticed that I didn’t expect is that people are able to guess a lot of albums in only one or two squares. Some of this is luck and image layout paradigms being surprisingly consistent (titles at the top!), but we also may have better context-based image memory than we think. There’s an obscure setting to increase the difficulty, which makes the squares smaller (or larger) to combat this.

Interesting idea about the reveal! I’ll consider adding that (or some cheap version of placing the image in the success modal at least).

Show HN: An album art-based Wordle clone called UNCVR

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