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tir · word race
live semantic word race with pure Elo ranking
Most word games are about spelling. tir is about meaning. Race a live room to a target word by picking the closest semantic leap. Pure pairwise Elo ranking. No ads, no IAP, no signup. Free for iOS and Android.
Hey PH, I'm Aman, I built Tir: word race.
Most word games are about spelling or async daily puzzles. I wanted to build something live, competitive, and based entirely on meaning.
The mechanic is simple: a target word appears. You get four options. You pick the word closest in semantic meaning to the target. The shorter the semantic distance, the further you jump. First to reach the target wins the round. Everyone in the global room races the exact same word at the exact same second.
A few design choices I focused on:
Honest ranking. I used pure pairwise Elo — the exact same math as chess, with no gamified multipliers or streaks. If you lose to someone 300 points above you, it barely costs anything. I wanted the number to actually mean something.
Semantic graph. The game is built on GloVe + Numberbatch embeddings. Polysemy makes some of the branches behave in unexpected ways, which makes the paths challenging and interesting.
Frictionless. No ads, no in-app purchases, no account signup. Pick an emoji avatar and you're racing.
Just launched. The room is small right now, but the Elo is already stratifying — there are genuinely harder and easier paths through the word graph and it shows in the rankings.
I'd love your feedback on the gameplay, the Elo implementation, or the semantic model. Happy to answer any questions!
iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/id676...
About tir · word race on Product Hunt
“live semantic word race with pure Elo ranking”
tir · word race was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 7 upvotes and 4 comments, placing #59 on the daily leaderboard. Most word games are about spelling. tir is about meaning. Race a live room to a target word by picking the closest semantic leap. Pure pairwise Elo ranking. No ads, no IAP, no signup. Free for iOS and Android.
On the analytics side, tir · word race competes within Puzzle Games, Word Games, GitHub and Games — topics that collectively have 146.4k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how tir · word race performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted tir · word race?
tir · word race was hunted by Aman Shrivastava. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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