🧨 Danobang (大脑嘣) - Multiplayer Chinese word game that tests your vocab, recall, and typing skills

Hello! I've been working on an online multiplayer asian word game called Danobang (大脑嘣) and am looking for beta testers to try out a new Chinese game mode I recently released. No signup is required, you can try it out directly here: https://danobang.com?game_lang=cmn

You can think of the game like a more flexible version of 接龙 (word chain game). Each turn players are given a random character prompt (like "爱") and must type a word that includes it in ANY position (e.g. "可爱", "爱好", "恋爱", etc). You can submit answers with either raw pinyin or hanzi via an IME.

The game is still very much a work in progress, so if you find any bugs or have any feedback please let me know! Thanks for reading ^_^

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Some more details for those curious:
- We currently support a combination of Mandarin/Cantonese and simplified/traditional game modes. If you'd like to customize gameplay further, I would recommend creating a custom room where you'll have more control over settings like difficulty, timer length, lives, cpu level, handicaps, etc. We also support HSK based difficulties!
- The game's dictionaries are sourced from cc-cedict and cc-canto with some filtering applied to exclude NSFW words. This part of the game definitely needs more work (ideally we wouldn't allow proper nouns like in Scrabble and there are a handful of words we are likely missing) and I'm hoping to figure out a better system to organize things as time goes on.
- The game has an "alphabet bonus" mechanic where if you collect all pinyin initials you earn an extra life! I've found this helps games feel more dynamic.

- I recently added a text-to-speech feature that pronounces the prompt every turn. You can click on the speaker icon next to the bomb to toggle it on or off
- The name "Danobang" has Korean origins since I originally built the game for Korean ("dano" means "word" in Korean), hence why it does not have perfect pinyin romanization of the Chinese name "大脑嘣" which came afterwards
- I want to give credit to the games "Bomb Party" and "Word Bomb" for helping inspire Danobang's core gameplay. I thought the concept was very clever and wanted to adapt it for Asian languages like Korean, Japanese, and now Chinese.

On 3/16/2026 at 10:43 AM, rufuyun said:

This is really fun, nice!

Thank you! Glad you like it 😌

On 3/22/2026 at 12:12 AM, becky82 said:

My new record is 155! Link: 普Mandarin•🧨 Classic•Simplified•Hard•Custom•155 Words•160 Turns•7:47

That's incredible! Definitely the highest I've seen so far for hard difficulty.

If you want an extra challenge I would recommend changing the "prompt position" setting to "random" 🤓  Also have you gotten a chance to try out the HSK based difficulties? I added support for both HSK 2.0 and HSK 3.0 recently which might also be up your alley.