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Need a break? Play today's game from The Daily Context.

Jess Lee on June 29, 2026

We (at DEV and MLH) are covering AI Engineer's World Fair by printing a physical newspaper called "The Daily Context" everyday of the conference. ...
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Jem The DEV Team

Love how this came out!

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Pascal CESCATO

I tried the game. Awesome, and addictive.

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Vivian Jair

What an awesome use case! Love word games so I'll be playing away 👀👀

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@jess Well played. I was thinking of doing this, but oh well XD

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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ

My eye burns from looking at the letters. Once I figured the words can be backwards, I fainted lol.

Thoughh....I did complete it. Nice to see this Jess!

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Jess Lee The DEV Team

You're lucky I couldn't get diagonals to work easily 😄

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Anna Villarreal

Next time perhaps words in tetris shapes? 😂😂😂😂 EVIL 🙈😶‍🌫️

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Anna Villarreal

😂🤣

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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ

Oh god I was hoping there wouldn't be any lol

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UnitBuilds

Really cool! Reminds me of newspaper word searches 😂

Huh, that's actually really cool that Dev.to can embed it like that... Who'd be interested in a series of games that cover programming paradigms and concepts?

Eg. Just mocked up a crossword in ai studio that covers blittables to explain the concepts and features of the various types? Or maybe a multi-step word puzzle that covers the systems a command goes through and the state, eg. when a LLM is run, what's the journey of an input to an output, with an arithmetic counter to 'step through' the tensor modifications in an easier to understand way?

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Jess Lee The DEV Team

✋️ I would!

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I'll give it a go for tomorrow and tag you in it, so you can give it a go, I'll have a look how long it takes me, might be a daily thing, might be a weekly thing, who knows 😂

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LLMs are Demented is almost done. Just busy fine tuning the difficulties a bit 🤣 it's gunna be such good rage-bait, but they'll love it! Once I get it on my cloud run and get it ready, I'll tag you in my challenge, I wanna see if anyone can beat my score 😁 (it wont be easy...)

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Anna Villarreal

Awesome haha 🦚😂 I was wondering what was happening!

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Sylwia Laskowska

Wow, cool! I used to play it as a kid 🥰

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Fayaz

Cool!

I love it's multi-directional nature 🥰

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Sam Kobir

I was only looking horizontal. That's why I Couldn't solve all

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Fayaz

Nope - it goes vertical, diagonal and reverse too 😂

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Jon Randy 🎖️ • Edited

Fun 😀, but the styling is pretty poor with regards to ease of actually playing the game. The really dark cell borders add WAY too much visual noise. Much better UX like this:

Better

Also, the underlying CSS and HTML is far from great... but nobody cares about that kind of stuff any more, right? 😉

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Atleast UX designers are safe from AI... (for now)

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Hadil Ben Abdallah

😍😍😍

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FromZeroToShip

The "it regenerated a brand-new puzzle on every refresh" detail got me — that "wait, why is it doing something I never asked for" moment is basically 90% of building anything with AI. Fun little game though, confetti well earned. 🎉

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Bucabay • Edited

Certainly a type of problem that wouldn't have happened pre-AI!

Actually it is a likely problem pre-AI as well.

If you build a dynamic random word search generator, the changing word positions is simpler to write. It does not require order, bounds or state. It is actual a less complex generator.

For example creating a generator for even numbers is simpler than a generator for even numbers between 1-10 in order.

The smaller space is actually a subset of the generator output and thus more complex funtionally.

even numbers

label a
i = 1
print i*2
i++
goto a

even numbers less than 10

label a
i = 1
print i*2
i++
if (i*2 >= 10) exit
goto a

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Bucabay

btw. game is super fun.

Amazing how simple things can be so fun for us mere humans.

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dp

Love this! AI generating a different puzzle on every refresh is the most AI-native "bug" imaginable 😂. We've seen similar things while experimenting with AI-assisted tools at CodeCan—great reminder that deterministic behavior still matters when digital and physical experiences need to match

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Jasmine Dueñas

Wow. This game is old school but cool! Thank you for this fun game ☺️

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Vigneshwaran V

I finish it 🤩 , nice to play.

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xulingfeng

Had fun spotting those terms in the word search — nice surprise to see them show up here after that buzzwords thread. Congrats on the launch! 🎉