“...the truth is that those who reluctantly cast their vote for Trump were far outnumbered by those who did so with a kind of gleeful rage. They may cite the Supreme Court or low taxes, but it’s Trumpism that they love, a politics unconstrained not only by rules or laws but by basic human civility.

When Trump tosses around childish insults and acts as though any American who doesn’t support him is his enemy, they don’t say, ‘I don’t like that; it’s the other stuff I like.’ Trump’s vulgarity and hatefulness is exactly what they like. It’s a feature, not a bug. Seeing a political leader who enacts their darkest impulses on a daily basis thrills and intoxicates them.”

— Paul Waldman in The Washington Post

Ogle

Word-finding game — Web & mobile — JavaScript, React

Ogle is a free word-finding game for the web and mobile. It derives from a tabletop game you’ve probably played, but the pace is much faster. Play it now.

Ogle screen shots

I created a desktop version of this app years back, when I was learning C#. I created this version when I was learning React.

Ogle is a progressive web app (PWA), so you can install and use it on your phone much like any other app. If you navigate to the play address, your phone should offer to install it. Your phone’s browser will also display Install app (or similar) in its page menu.

If you find a bug, let me know.

Source code

Ogle has copyright ©2007-2022 Jeremy Kelly. You can view the source code at GitHub, but — for now, at least — you may not modify, reuse, or redistribute it. I may open-source it some day.

The Ogle word lists derive from SCOWL, copyright ©2000-2004 Kevin Atkinson. Use and distribution of SCOWL are subject to the terms of the SCOWL License.