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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…
Great puzzle! Is there a way to give up and see all the answers? After 20 minutes or so still have 8 words to find. (Not a native English speaker.)
+1 for this. Also not a native speaker and can't for the life of find the two last words in the #5
How is the puzzle generation? can you fully automate generating good puzzles or do you tune them by hand? I really enjoyed this, and hope to continue doing so.
I have it semi automated but I've found they need to be manually reviewed to make fun puzzles. Basically I start with an 8, 9 or 10 letter word as the core of the puzzle. I then have a generator add random letters and paths around this until it makes a grid with a good number of valid words. I then run the words though GPT 5.5 which scores them on how "common" the word is to the average person. This is very subjectiv…
Initially I thought I would feel cheated and the solution must require knowledge of some obscure scrabble player only words. I was pleased the solutions felt honest. For that reason I don't think you should offer an option to give up and reveal the answers.
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+1 for this. Also not a native speaker and can't for the life of find the two last words in the #5
Damn it, it was the longest word I've already found in plural form :/ Not sure this is good puzzle design to be honest
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Damn it, it was the longest word I've already found in plural form :/ Not sure this is good puzzle design to be honest
Thanks for the feedback. Do you think finding plural should automatically find the root word as well?
It happened twice that the word I missed was the plural of a word I already found. After finding a word I don't follow it again so finding the plural happened by accident twice, and it felt cheap.
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 will look into potentially adding percentiles in the next few days once I see how big the ranges are!
https://squaredle.app/