Chain Letters

What it is

Chain Letters is an online daily word game I built. Players build a chain of words from the starting word to the ending word, using as few links possible.

Each link in the chain must be:

1. A valid English word
2. Only one letter different from the word before.

For example:

How it works

This was my first stab into React JS. It works, but I’m not super proud of the way I implemented it. Maybe I’ll come back someday to break things into further components, use Redux, and React router.

You can check out the source code here.