Wordle meets Clippy in this new word game
Dartwords is a new daily word game that uses a combination of a local LLM and hand-authored clues to provide a conversational guessing experience. The game was designed by Sam Rosenthal to mimic the casual, social nature of word games played in person.
Why it matters
The game highlights the growing trend of integrating AI into casual gaming to create more dynamic and interactive user experiences.
Like many of us, Sam Rosenthal plays games like Wordle every day, chasing after good scores and sharing the results with friends and family. But he’s also a game designer, the creative director at Blaseball developer The Game Band, and so this regular habit got him thinking about what else could be done in the space. “When I was a kid and I played word games with my family, they weren’t the New York Times puzzle games,” Rosenthal explains. “We were sitting in a car on a road trip playing these really loose games that couldn’t be made digitally before. Things like the alphabet game or our own riffs on 20 questions. That felt like a really interesting space to explore.”
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