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Backwards kanji? I have no idea what this means. Can you explain the rules? Maybe with a short sample game.

Oh, I see. It would probably be easier to implement with each word on its own line, using an accumulation of indentation (like nested quotes).

Here's how I understood it. Not sure if that's what @pup72 had in mind.

Each word on its own line with indentation (instead of it being horizontal, but scrolling left) could work. Would be a lot less readable though. Well, it's hard to imagine without visuals :D

Ah, I see what you mean. That's actually more work than if you just have them alternating (because you're adding a vertical element). The complexity comes from having to calculate exactly where to place the new words so they overlap properly. I don't have access to the code so I have no idea how this is being done right now. Here's a visual of how it might work (assuming no Flex or Grid layout):

Normal (top example):
Snap the new word's container to the end of the last word.
Shift left by n × character_width if there's an overlap of n characters.

Backwards (bottom example):
Snap the new word's container (right edge) to the start (left edge) of the previous word.
Shift right by n × character_width for overlaps.

The two steps are just conceptual, in reality it's a single calculation. The whole thing is massively oversimplified.

There's probably a bunch of different issues you'd only encounter as you start coding it. That's usually how it works with these things.

Easiest would be using a Flex or Grid layout, but looking at the code, every word is being manually positioned with explicit coordinates.

I mean, there's basically no way Michael does this, but it's fun to think about :)

P.S. I'm a backend dev so this isn't really my wheelhouse 😁

Is it like えけつ--->つとひ?

No! My idea was backwards kanji shiritori. That's also funny though.

ひるあ

No! My idea was backwards kanji shiritori. That's also funny though.

Wait... now I'm confused, was my interpretation wrong? Can you give us a sample round? I've already figured out how to code a basic version

No, no, the kanji themselves are not backwards The rule is the word you play ends with the first kanji of the previous word.

I don't think I'm as techie as you ギョルギ九十三さん, but what you made was exactly what I was imagining anyway.

Then that セージ͎.𝓡_8̯̭̓̇͂卦掌天 invented a new game of their own, backwards hiragana shiritori. I'm not sure that variant is all that helpful for learning Japanese although (at least for me) it got the old noggin joggin'.

Got it. I made a really crappy normal shiritori yesterday, I just need to reverse the logic, and it should work as a sort of a proof of concept. It's in kana for testing (doesn't have validation yet). It's also really ugly...

The other idea (backwards hiragana) is actually very easy to implement. Assuming you want players to input the words backwards, you just have to reverse them when checking against the dictionary. Everything else is pretty much the same. Basically every word in the chain is backwards and you only need to reverse the input in the code to check if the word is valid.

It's not ChatGPT. I tried that and it didn't work, so I made it myself 😂

It's just some Flex containers, a button, a textbox and some basic JS, really not that impressive. I mean, I do have a degree in this (Computer science)... would be very awkward if I couldn't do this much