Hacker News Games

A curated catalog of 642 games created by the Hacker News community.

Eleven Hundred
5 points
Free

Eleven Hundred

Explain the daily word to an AI using only the 1,100 most common English words

WordCraft
1 point
Free

WordCraft

Arrange words to craft target sentences horizontally or vertically

ExplainGame
10 points
Free

ExplainGame

Get teammates to guess words using only clues in this real-time multiplayer party game

Letters
9 points
Free

Letters

Decompose letters into sub-shapes to solve abstract letter-based puzzles

Word Slicer
85 points
Free

Word Slicer

Rearrange vertical slices to reveal five hidden words each day

Imagine Storiez
3 points
Paid

Imagine Storiez

Create short stories using five random words in under 60 seconds

Scrobburl
3 points
Free

Scrobburl

Scrabble where game state is stored in the URL for instant sharing

Haystack
3 points
Free

Haystack

Find a single word hidden among scrambled letters from that word

Huewords
114 points
Free

Huewords

A word logic puzzle game with color-coded clues to deduce the hidden words