Nice execution, a variation of Wordle but different enough so as to not be taken as a clone :-)
Quick feedback, why does the round timer inside the yellow star starts decreasing while the letters are still falling/appearing? Shouldn't it start the countdown once all letters and the palying field is ready?
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#42I 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
I agree... I think there are actually a couple of niggles that work together: - 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 po…
There are a few reasons I didn't pursue that — one of them that comes to mind because of having to deal with repeats - for example, let's say in round 1 you have TRIAL and in round 2 you have TRAIL. You see TR---, guess TRAIL in round one and the game marks it correct. In round 2, you see TR--- and guess TRAIL again.
I think that solution lock you experience - it's a little uncomfortable, but once you learn to wriggle your way out of it, you get that "aha" feeling I'm going for.
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#43I had only two letters left, K and L. Words: BUL_Y and PEE_S. Each letter works fine in either spot, but only one way was correct. That kind of annoyed me because I guessed wrong the first time.
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#45Nice execution, a variation of Wordle but different enough so as to not be taken as a clone :-) Quick feedback, why does the round timer inside the yellow star starts decreasing while the letters are still falling/appearing? Shouldn't it start the countdown once all letters and the palying field is ready?
Thanks! Really, that star shouldn't appear so quickly. It currently appears as soon as the new round comes into existence. You get about 40 seconds to get the star from the end of the last round, so I could certainly cheat and have the countdown circle start at around 38 seconds so it wouldn't seem unfair.
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#46I had only two letters left, K and L. Words: BUL_Y and PEE_S. Each letter works fine in either spot, but only one way was correct. That kind of annoyed me because I guessed wrong the first time.
I don’t think there can be any easy way around issues like that in games like these. At least this game doesn’t penalize you for it
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#47i appreciate the challenge this offers compared to wordle. 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.
I like that, thanks!
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#48Is this a bug or am I missing something here? Looks like I'm out of vowels... https://imgur.com/a/D57IgjE
I have a possible solution but I can't figure out how to post it here without spoiling it immediately. If you tell me it's OK, or if somebody tells me how to post text with a black background (so you have to select the text to see it), I'll post it.
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#49I really don't like that it's timed.
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#50Is this a bug or am I missing something here? Looks like I'm out of vowels... https://imgur.com/a/D57IgjE
I have a possible solution but I can't figure out how to post it here without spoiling it immediately. If you tell me it's OK, or if somebody tells me how to post text with a black background (so you have to select the text to see it), I'll post it.
Paste it to, I don't know, https://dpaste.org