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#101

I found #6 unnecessarily difficult. While I personally really enjoy puzzles, primarily logic ones and spelling ones, this melted my brain. Maybe you could add a "hint" button that shows you which letter is the starting letter for a word in the remaining to-be-found list.

If you see a letter with only one line coming from it it’s either the last or first letter of a word.

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#102
1:40 with (I think) two bonus words. It would be nice to have bonus words counted at the end. Maybe some way of setting a score based on time plus bonus words.

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#103
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1:40 with (I think) two bonus words. It would be nice to have bonus words counted at the end. Maybe some way of setting a score based on time plus bonus words.

1:25 with one bonus word on the HN special. I saw that the bonus words are highlighted in orange in the final word list so yes, it was two on the first puzzle.

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#105

Wow, this post blew up! Thank you everyone for all the helpful feedback. I’ve just deployed a few updates: - Added a short playable tutorial for new players to learn how the game works. - Added a timer below the grid. You can hide this in the settings if you don’t want the extra pressure! - Fixed some bonus words based on your recommendations. I also made a bonus HN themed puzzle as a thanks for all the feedback - ht…

If it was really an “HN themed puzzle”, all the letters would be A or I and the minimum word length would be 2.

I’m kidding of course - great game!

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#107

Wow, this post blew up! Thank you everyone for all the helpful feedback. I’ve just deployed a few updates: - Added a short playable tutorial for new players to learn how the game works. - Added a timer below the grid. You can hide this in the settings if you don’t want the extra pressure! - Fixed some bonus words based on your recommendations. I also made a bonus HN themed puzzle as a thanks for all the feedback - ht…

Congratulations on your launch! It’s cool seeing all the word games on here taking off

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#110

I like it! #6 in 5 mins, but I have no idea if that's good or not. A percentile score at the end would be nice!

I've added a global average time for now to each puzzle if that's nice? I will look into potentially adding percentiles in the next few days once I see how big the ranges are!

Great, I just tried #7, comparing against the average is definitely better, thanks
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