Baseball Game Devlog

1. Why Baseball Game Came to Soosooland

It was when I first introduced Soosooland to people I knew.
Some of them said, “I went to Soosooland but didn’t know what to do.” For them, I added Gomoku.

Around that time, Soosooland had about 100 users, and I noticed visitors from 10 different countries. Thinking foreigners might know it, I added Baseball Game (Bulls and Cows).
I got excited that foreigners were flooding in — but it turned out to be just two people from Tunisia and Finland, who probably landed there by accident and left after 12 and 26 seconds.
Everything else was bots. There were even 6 sessions from Moses Lake, and I sat in front of my monitor imagining a group of American kids gathered around playing Soosooland games together.

Baseball Game is something I go way back with.
During the years I ran a math gifted class, I used to catch kids on their way home
“Hey, not busy? Want to play baseball game with me?”
and teach them the rules.
Eventually, kids started coming to find me just to play.
Back then, we used paper and pencil, and only played 3-digit number baseball.
From mid to late August 2025, I added English Baseball, Korean Baseball, and Number Baseball to Soosooland. In September 2025, Baseball Game hit #1.

2. Soosoo Baseball Game

I made an easier version of baseball game and, without much thought, slapped the prefix “Soosoo” on it.
In standard English, Korean, and Number Baseball, the result of each guess tells you the counts of S, B, and Out. In Soosoo Baseball, it also tells you their positions.
For example, a standard game shows the result as 1S 2B 1O — but Soosoo Baseball shows it as SBBO, SBOB, BOSB,BOBS… revealing not just the counts but the exact positions of each S, B, and Out.
No baseball game had been made with rules like this before, so I briefly considered registering a copyright — but the format is similar enough to Wordle, and there’s no beating Wordle, so I dropped it. Besides, Soosoo Baseball makes it far too easy to find the answer. It’s for beginners, useful mainly for learning the rules.

3. The Birth of Korean Baseball

English Baseball and Number Baseball already existed, but Korean Baseball is something I invented.
Korean has too many vowels. So, like in Moeum Quiz, I made the vowels visible as hints and had players deduce only the consonants. A friend who never plays computer games found Korean Baseball too hard and asked me to use only words without final consonants — so there’s now an easier version with exactly that.
Korean Baseball comes in two types: one where you can input any word in the word pool, and one where you can only input words that are in the pool. So Korean Baseball ended up with four variants in total.
There might be a way to line up Korean consonants and vowels in a single row like English letters, but for now, S, B, and Out are marked at the onset and coda positions separately.
The word pool contains only nouns — I recycled the words I’d already collected for Worpuzz, Soosooland’s word game. To pick out only the words without final consonants, I wrote a small program to filter them.

4. Baseball Game’s Standing in Soosooland

I tried to write this section with some flair, but nothing particularly dramatic ever happened to Baseball Game.
I picked it first for the development log because I was writing in order of popularity — but that turned out to be a mistake. Baseball Game hit #1 in August 2025, then dropped to #2 in May 2026, ten months later. It hadn’t been #1 a single time in between, but I’d convinced myself last month that it was. The truth is, Numstone had only just launched on May 24th — just a few days in — and while its total play time was low, adjusting for the number of days made it come out on top.

🪄 Written by Soosoo, translated by Claude