Reverse Games

Imagine your favorite games, Connect 4 and Wordle, but flipped upside down. This is what's behind Reverse Games. By working your way backwards, it makes the original games more fun and complex.

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Inspiration

The inspiration came from playing wordle everyday, especially when facing the boredom of school.

What it does

Currently, we have two "upside-down" versions of NYTimes's Wordle and Hasbro's Connect 4.

How we built it

We built the site with web technologies: React.js, Typescript, Chakra, and Vercel.

Challenges we ran into

Oddly enough, the biggest challenge we faced was brainstorming the initial idea. After hours of ideation, we zoned in on something we were passionate about: wordle. During the development process, we faced a weird bug with connect 4 where we couldn't flip each individual column and sync the state. However, after debugging for quite a large chunk of time, we overcame the hurdle.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

I've always seen and played wordle variations, like AoPS's math based variation; however, today I was finally able to create my own implementation that fell within the hackathon's theme.

What we learned

Oddly enough, there are 12478 5-letter words.

What's next for Reversed Games

We'll be adding more reversed games, for example sudoko. In addition, adding a multiplayer version that pair random players together would amp up the website's experience.

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