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NO. 01 · WORD GAMELIVE · --:-- EDT

A daily puzzle about meaning, not spelling. Drag five words into order along a hidden axis, then find out what the axis was.

PROBLEM: Every daily word game since Wordle is a variation on guess-the-letters. None of them play with what words mean.
APPROACH: Rank five words along an unnamed scale like Scoville heat, formality, loudness or cost. The reveal moment, when the axis is named and your order snaps into place, carries the whole game.
ARCHITECTURE: No framework. Vite and TypeScript with spring physics from Motion and GSAP, View Transitions for the reveal, and OKLCH mesh gradients for atmosphere. Puzzle generation runs as a Netlify Function calling Claude through the AI Gateway, alongside 30 hand-curated seed puzzles.
STACK: TypeScript, Vite, Motion, GSAP, Netlify Functions, Claude.
OUTCOME: Live in production with a new puzzle every day.