Show HN: Battlewords – Wordle Meets Battleship

  • Hey everyone,

    I've been working on a little side project which is a version of Wordle that you can play against others. Choose a word, then take turns guessing and see who gets it first. The twist: any letters you use in your own guess are revealed to the other player if they are in your secret word!

    You can play in your browser here:

    https://battlewords.riley.dev/

    There's also an Android app available:

    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dev.riley.batt...

    Unfortuantely, Apple has rejected the app as being too much of a Wordle copycat.

    The tech stack is Expo/React Native on the front end, and then Firebase (Hosting, Functions and RTDB) on the backend.

    If you challenge a Random Opponent and we don't find someone to play against you within 2 minutes, we'll have a Bot play against you so you can always play a game if you want to.

    My friend group has been playing it for a few days now and finding it fun, but let me know what you think!