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Wordhelper.app

Paul Kinlan

Paul Kinlan

Lead of Chrome DevRel

During the lockdown me and my partner got into crosswords and codewords, and with my partners first language not being English, and me mostly failing English in school I built this little web app to help us find potential solutions for crosswords.

I built this simple app because 1) I didn't want to install an app, and 2) a lot of the sites on the Web are laden with junk adverts or complex syntax. I just wanted something simple to use and that loaded instantly.

To use the app, you just include all the letters you know and use _ or . for the letters that you don't know (i.e, CA___A). If you know there are two letters that will be the same but you don't know what they are you can use a digit (i.e, B12121).

I will do a technical write up soon, but it's a pretty traditional PWA.

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