Make the longest word you can with a limited set a letters!
Your goal is to create the longest, valid English word you know when you only have eight letters to use. Letters can be repeated; this isn't a newspaper Jumble! The only thing you can't do is use letters that aren't in that set of eight.
Letter Potato is played on your own time! Hop into a game room, find as many words as you can think of, then come back later and see if you're still at the top of the leaderboard.
Any four-letter code will get you into a game. If you're the first person to create a room, you'll start with a new set of eight letters and no discovered words. If you enter a room code that someone else used before, you'll join a game with an existing set of letters plus any words found by other players.
This game isn't finished yet! Here are the major things under development:
- Remembering a player's name between recent refreshes
- Allowing name and room changes from the game screen
- Showing room suggestions underneath the room code entry screen
- Various development chores
- Adding documentation
- Adding Jest unit tests
- Cleaning up CSS
Letter Potato tracks bugs and feature requests using GitHub Issues. Drop a line there!
Want to fix it yourself? Great! Fork this repo, write some code, and submit a pull request.
Letter Potato was bootstrapped with Create React App. Also, Letter Potato's backend services and deployment is managed with AWS Amplify.
Installing the Amplify CLI is highly encouraged!
Testing AWS Lambdas locally requires Node 16 LTS or higher.
Deployments occur automatically through the AWS Amplify
Console for each new commit on the
master branch.
Open an issue if you'd like further deployment options!
In the project directory, you can run:
Runs the app in the development mode. Open http://localhost:3000 to view it in the browser.
The page will reload if you make edits. You will also see any lint errors in the console.
Launches the test runner in the interactive watch mode.
Builds the app for production to the build folder. It correctly bundles React
in production mode and optimizes the build for the best performance.
The build is minified and the filenames include the hashes.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the included GNU General Public License for more details.
Created by Ryan McGill. Inspired by party games developed by Jackbox Games.
And thank you for playing! 🌈