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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
Mine loads, but the keyboard never appears to guess letters. I have no idea if there is a bug or if I am doing it wrong. Mobile chrome on Google pixel 3.
This is cool, but there's a bug when there's multiple possible correct solutions https://i.imgur.com/S56AWWj.png
This is cool, but there's a bug when there's multiple possible correct solutions https://i.imgur.com/S56AWWj.png
Not a bug! There are three specific words it’s looking for. I will find a way to make that more explicit.
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
- there's a timer
- solutions are not always unique
Often in Wordle, you'll have three or four green letters, which leaves several possible answers, and you just have to guess which one is correct. Some days you'll be lucky, some days you won't! But it feels OK because you're not working against a clock; so you have time to mull over the possibilities and decide which one feels better.
In Three Magic words, because you're racing against the clock, once you see a solution you immediately want to put it in. But sometimes it gets rejected! For example, on Tuesday's puzzle:
Gur pbeerpg fbyhgvba jnf CRRYF naq OHYXL, ohg V gevrq CRRXF naq OHYYL juvpu V guvax jbhyq nyfb unir orra inyvq.
Somehow that feels more unfair than the Wordle case. I wonder if it might be better just to accept any valid solution that uses known common words?
I finished about 20 seconds slower than I would have if the animation hadn't lagged as much.
> Repeated bad guesses incur a time penalty.
Very nice! It's a fun game, and looks really nicely implemented. Congratulations especially on finding the energy to push through and finish this. It must have been a bit disheartening to see Wordle's massive success, and it could have been an easy excuse not to bother finishing your own game (or at least to radically re-think and simplify it into yet another me-too Wordle clone).
I personally prefer games without time pressure, and I kept trying to type the whole word, not just the missing letters. But it's still a neat idea and an overall great execution.
NYT's spelling bee has a feature that i think you should consider implementing: a button and/or key press (e.g. space) that shuffles the remaining, unused letters.