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My kids love Duolingo so I just started turning their spelling lists into this: https://thomaspark.co/projects/cleolingo/

Without Claude so it took much longer than 10 minutes.


This is nice! But some of the descriptions are really ambiguous. Some of them are also kinda wrong, imo.

"A shout of joy or excitement"

My answer: "cheer" - expected answer: "cheers"


Wow it's amazing.

How hard is it to change it for a different language? Looks fun for practicing words


I solved this by making a calculator that rounds to the nearest 1/16. Tiny app for Americans doing DIY work around the house:

https://thomaspark.co/projects/calc-16/


Querymon is a more tutorial-like SQL game:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkP_W8xFz5s


How bout the rubber tip of a mucilage glue bottle:

https://deepfriedhoodsiecups.wordpress.com/2011/07/04/dfhc-7...


This project was born out of regular games of Dutch Blitz.

For gaming, existing scoring apps had more complexity (and friction) than I was after. I wanted something quick & dirty.

I ended up on Google Sheets with some simple formulas. Other groups also started using it. It seemed to be something I could generalize with a bit more work, and here we are.

Welcome any and all feedback.


Thanks for the feedback, the current iteration is definitely a work in progress and mobile needs much polish. Your bottom tab idea is a good one for mobile.

I'm not a regular Scrabble player so feedback from actual players is helpful. I've seen the play column and thought it was a neat-to-have feature, but on mobile it's a different story.


Good thought, I'll add it to todos.


Thanks for the suggestion, I'll add it.


I'm accepting suggestions for games to add, since pretty I'm out of touch with the scene and there's so many amazing new ones to keep up with.

As far as contributing, maybe I'll put this up on GitHub...


Be nice to just have a "default" that's just names, rounds and scores, which would cover like 1000 card games.



Thank you!


As a way for individuals to contribute?


Absolutely! I meant to add it back, I originally had one front and center on the landing page. Lots of uses for it.


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