# Meet Gridog – your daily word puzzle companion! 🐾 Can you unravel the mystery word?

**URL:** <https://forum.defold.com/t/meet-gridog-your-daily-word-puzzle-companion-can-you-unravel-the-mystery-word/76177>\
**Category:** Showcases\
**Created:** [March 3, 2024, 4:47pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/meet-gridog-your-daily-word-puzzle-companion-can-you-unravel-the-mystery-word/76177 "2024-03-03T16:47:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Iustin\_Gheorghe](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/iustin_gheorghe/32/35226_2.png) [@Iustin\_Gheorghe](https://forum.defold.com/u/Iustin_Gheorghe)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2024, 4:47pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/meet-gridog-your-daily-word-puzzle-companion-can-you-unravel-the-mystery-word/76177/1 "2024-03-03T16:47:29Z")

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👋 Hello world.

Introducing **Gridog** – your daily dose of wordy wonders! 🐾 Unleash your inner word detective by navigating through a maze of letters to uncover the hidden word. 🕵️‍♂️ Share your triumphs on social media and challenge friends to beat your accuracy. Come back tomorrow for a new puzzle – because with Gridog, every day is a playful puzzle expedition! 🐕📚

Give it a try at [gridog.com](https://gridog.com). Since we are good friends, I’ll give you a defold forum head start: today’s word second letter is “C” 😉

 ![image](https://forum-defold-uploads.b-cdn.net/original/3X/2/e/2eb47a011ea01e10c4f3863cba9789f042c54084.jpeg)

Can you sniff out the hidden word?

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**Author:** ![NaakkaDev](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/naakkadev/32/34927_2.png) [@NaakkaDev](https://forum.defold.com/u/NaakkaDev)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2024, 5:29pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/meet-gridog-your-daily-word-puzzle-companion-can-you-unravel-the-mystery-word/76177/2 "2024-03-03T17:29:09Z")

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I like this a lot. It is very clean and simple which is my favorite. This will be my first “wordle” type of game I’ll be playing daily.

Btw. the logo is cute! 🦴

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**Author:** ![Iustin\_Gheorghe](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/iustin_gheorghe/32/35226_2.png) [@Iustin\_Gheorghe](https://forum.defold.com/u/Iustin_Gheorghe)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2024, 11:09pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/meet-gridog-your-daily-word-puzzle-companion-can-you-unravel-the-mystery-word/76177/3 "2024-03-03T23:09:30Z")

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Thanks for the kind words. I’m really glad you enjoyed it because I really enjoyed making this game.

Have fun, and if you spot a bug pls let me know :).

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**Author:** ![theLaffa](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/thelaffa/32/35235_2.png) [@theLaffa](https://forum.defold.com/u/theLaffa)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2024, 10:19am UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/meet-gridog-your-daily-word-puzzle-companion-can-you-unravel-the-mystery-word/76177/4 "2024-03-04T10:19:30Z")

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Incredibly smooth and cute, it has a level of polish that’s simply nice without anything getting in the way. Love the subtle animations too.

But… I indeed did not sniff well, got the word on around 40%

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**Author:** ![Insality](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/insality/32/39737_2.png) [@Insality](https://forum.defold.com/u/Insality)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2024, 10:28am UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/meet-gridog-your-daily-word-puzzle-companion-can-you-unravel-the-mystery-word/76177/5 "2024-03-04T10:28:11Z")

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Very cute and simple game! Congratulation with the release 🎉

There is a simple thing you can fix with the fonts:

 ![Screenshot 2024-03-04 at 12.23.33](https://forum-defold-uploads.b-cdn.net/original/3X/8/e/8ee796a3f69da245ed20a5b4c9eb4419677aacba.png)

The solution here: [Issues with DF fonts - #10 by totebo](https://forum.defold.com/t/issues-with-df-fonts/63744/10)

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**Author:** ![NaakkaDev](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/naakkadev/32/34927_2.png) [@NaakkaDev](https://forum.defold.com/u/NaakkaDev)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2024, 1:31pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/meet-gridog-your-daily-word-puzzle-companion-can-you-unravel-the-mystery-word/76177/6 "2024-03-04T13:31:19Z")

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One thing I would like to see is an indicator when mouse hovering a letter box. Perhaps a nice sound, different from the click sound, along with some kind visual indicator.

After todays word I had to google it do see its definition, would be cool to see the definition at the result view.

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**Author:** ![totebo](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/totebo/32/36087_2.png) [@totebo](https://forum.defold.com/u/totebo)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2024, 1:47pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/meet-gridog-your-daily-word-puzzle-companion-can-you-unravel-the-mystery-word/76177/7 "2024-03-04T13:47:34Z")

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Nice! I also landed at 40%, must improve!

Out of curiosity, is the daily word baked into the app or stored on a server?

Also, I noticed the clipboard copy works on mobile web, is that using custom JavaScript, or did you use the Defold Clipboard extension?

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**Author:** ![Iustin\_Gheorghe](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/iustin_gheorghe/32/35226_2.png) [@Iustin\_Gheorghe](https://forum.defold.com/u/Iustin_Gheorghe)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2024, 8:10pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/meet-gridog-your-daily-word-puzzle-companion-can-you-unravel-the-mystery-word/76177/8 "2024-03-04T20:10:14Z")

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I noticed that too. But I don’t have much experience with the behind the scenes of fonts, so I somehow imagined that would be very hard to fix. Glad to see that’s not necessarily true. Thanks a lot for the link, I’ll give it a try.

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**Author:** ![Iustin\_Gheorghe](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/iustin_gheorghe/32/35226_2.png) [@Iustin\_Gheorghe](https://forum.defold.com/u/Iustin_Gheorghe)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2024, 8:12pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/meet-gridog-your-daily-word-puzzle-companion-can-you-unravel-the-mystery-word/76177/9 "2024-03-04T20:12:59Z")

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That’s not so bad. I happened to miss more and I curated the words list 🙂 . I’m sure you will make better tomorrow 💪

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**Author:** ![Iustin\_Gheorghe](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/iustin_gheorghe/32/35226_2.png) [@Iustin\_Gheorghe](https://forum.defold.com/u/Iustin_Gheorghe)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2024, 8:16pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/meet-gridog-your-daily-word-puzzle-companion-can-you-unravel-the-mystery-word/76177/10 "2024-03-04T20:16:21Z")

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Hmm, you are totally right. I will do something and let you know once it’s live. Thanks for the feedback!

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**Author:** ![Iustin\_Gheorghe](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/iustin_gheorghe/32/35226_2.png) [@Iustin\_Gheorghe](https://forum.defold.com/u/Iustin_Gheorghe)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2024, 8:25pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/meet-gridog-your-daily-word-puzzle-companion-can-you-unravel-the-mystery-word/76177/11 "2024-03-04T20:25:13Z")

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About the wordlist: it’s stored on the client side (inside the app). It’s basically a list of aprox. 600 not too obscure words. That means that if no new words are added, after 2 years they will repeat. But I doubt someone will remember the words from 2 years ago so that shouldn’t be a problem.

About the clipboard: it does use an extension and had to add a bit of code to have it work in the browser. But I don’t remember the name and I don’t have my laptop with me. Will check it tomorrow and come back to you.

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**Author:** ![Iustin\_Gheorghe](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/iustin_gheorghe/32/35226_2.png) [@Iustin\_Gheorghe](https://forum.defold.com/u/Iustin_Gheorghe)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2024, 9:53pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/meet-gridog-your-daily-word-puzzle-companion-can-you-unravel-the-mystery-word/76177/12 "2024-03-05T21:53:59Z")

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Yes, used [Britzl’s extension](https://github.com/britzl/defold-clipboard). To make it work in the browsers too, add in the touch event’s callback:

```
-- native app clipboard copy is handled by the clipboard library
if (clipboard ~= nil) then
    clipboard.copy(share_message(self))
else
    -- html5 clipboard copy is handled by the "polyfill"
    defos.on_interaction(function() 
        copy_text(self)
    end)
end

```

where `copy_text` is a local function:

```
-- this function is used to copy a given text to the clipboard, on browser builds
local function copy_text(self)
    -- check if the current browser supports the clipboard API
	local result = html5.run("navigator.clipboard")
	if result == "[object Clipboard]" then
        -- executes the supplied string as JavaScript inside the browser.
		html5.run("clipboard_copy('" .. share_message(self) .. "')")
	else
		print("Can't access clipboard")
	end
end

```

Now, the last step is to provide the `clipboard_copy` function. Add it to the page’s `head` tag:

```
<script type="text/javascript">
async function clipboard_copy(thing_to_copy) {
   const result = await navigator.clipboard.writeText(thing_to_copy);
}
</script>

```

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**Author:** ![schlista](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/schlista/32/44619_2.png) [@schlista](https://forum.defold.com/u/schlista)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2024, 10:35pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/meet-gridog-your-daily-word-puzzle-companion-can-you-unravel-the-mystery-word/76177/13 "2024-03-05T22:35:28Z")

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Nice, but I was clueless as to what I was trying to do. I now see I’m trying to guess the correct letter in each column to spell a word using only one letter from each column.

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**Author:** ![Iustin\_Gheorghe](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/iustin_gheorghe/32/35226_2.png) [@Iustin\_Gheorghe](https://forum.defold.com/u/Iustin_Gheorghe)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2024, 4:32pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/meet-gridog-your-daily-word-puzzle-companion-can-you-unravel-the-mystery-word/76177/14 "2024-03-09T16:32:28Z")

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Hello world,

Just writing a small update: the fonts issues has been addressed and now there is a feedback effect when hovering over a tile.

Thanks again for all the suggestions and tips!

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**Author:** ![theLaffa](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/thelaffa/32/35235_2.png) [@theLaffa](https://forum.defold.com/u/theLaffa)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2024, 1:54am UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/meet-gridog-your-daily-word-puzzle-companion-can-you-unravel-the-mystery-word/76177/15 "2024-03-11T01:54:49Z")

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[gridog.com](http://gridog.com) #③③ - accuracy ⑨⓪%

A nice addition to my daily addictions, awesome work again. Might only be small changes but it does feel that little extra polished 🙂

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**Author:** ![totebo](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/totebo/32/36087_2.png) [@totebo](https://forum.defold.com/u/totebo)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2024, 9:56pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/meet-gridog-your-daily-word-puzzle-companion-can-you-unravel-the-mystery-word/76177/16 "2024-03-11T21:56:35Z")

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[gridog.com](http://gridog.com) #③③ - accuracy ⑤⑥%

I’m not sure I’m improving! 🫠