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Re: Show HN: Three Magic Words

#12
Nice game. I liked the feel of moving the tiles. There is a slight problem when I first enter a new puzzle. The movable tiles are below the screen! [0] (On Android, standard Chrome browser). It fixes itself if I rotate to landscape and then back to portrait.

So far I like the word list you've used. But I've only tried the easier days :p.

[0]: https://ibb.co/7NvPTnM

Re: Show HN: Three Magic Words

#15
I really like the execution on this. One piece of feedback is that the timer gave me anxiety and I closed it. I do puzzles to phase out from stress not to challenge myself in a time bound environment

Re: Show HN: Three Magic Words

#16
post #8

Doesn't work on android

It worked on my Android device when I rotated the screen to landscape mode, though not with optimal UI anymore. The bottom character row is invisible in portrait mode on my device. Great fun though!

Thanks - I did struggle with getting the game to size properly under different conditions. I sorely lack deep knowledge of the matrix of Android browsers/OS version quirks.

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#18
post #11
post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Urk - what browser/version please?

On Chrome on Android (whatever is latest on the Play store) in portrait mode, the bottom letters are off the bottom of the screen. If I rotate everything is small but I can see it.

Thank you, that's super helpful.

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#19
Bug: if you click the next letter while the 'victory' animation for the previous letter is still playing, it replaces the previous correct letter with the new one you clicked, instead of putting the second letter in the next empty space

Too much animation overall

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#20
I liked the game and have never played Wordle, so can't really compare. However, I was stuck on one specific set of words for a long time due to spelling issues. The word I couldn't grok was "armor", whereas my brain would by default only recognise "armour". It'd be a nice small enhancement to state clearly what dictionary was being used for the spellings.
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