Nhakogithub.com/kimzam30/butterfly-word-searchSuperseded
Butterfly Word Search
The original: realtime multiplayer word search in vanilla JS and Firebase, playable offline. Rebuilt as NhakoSearch.
- Status
- Superseded
- Kind
- The original word-search game
- Stack
- HTML, CSS and vanilla JavaScript; no framework, no bundler
- Backend
- Firebase Realtime Database and Authentication
- Offline
- A service worker with a versioned cache
- Successor
- NhakoSearch
- Started
- Last push
- License
- MIT
- Built by
kimzam
What it does
- Three difficulties (10 by 10, 12 by 12, 15 by 15) and more than 200 words in themed sets.
- Host a room, share the code, and play in real time; discoveries sync through Firebase.
- Installable, fully playable offline, and it drops to single player when the network goes.
- Database rules validate writes on the server, so a client cannot fake a win.
What came next
Its roadmap listed global leaderboards, hints and a daily challenge. All three landed in NhakoSearch instead, rebuilt on Next.js and Supabase with a level path and co-op. This version stays up as the original.