Hi everyone,
I’ve been playing around with word puzzles lately, and the NYT Letter Boxed puzzle gave me an interesting idea for a small web-development project.
For anyone who hasn’t tried it, Letter Boxed is a word puzzle where letters are arranged around the sides of a square. You have to create words by connecting letters while following the puzzle’s rules, with the goal of using all the available letters.
It made me wonder how difficult it would be to build a simple browser-based version from scratch. The basic interface seems fairly straightforward, but the interesting part would probably be creating the word-validation logic and finding a good way to generate puzzles that are actually solvable.
I’m curious what approach other developers here would take. Would you use JavaScript with a local word list, or build a small backend to handle the dictionary and puzzle generation?
It seems like a fun little project for experimenting with UI, JavaScript logic, and word-game algorithms.
Has anyone here built a similar puzzle or game before?
