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Re: Show HN: Three Magic Words

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Post by airstrike »

beepy wrote: post #26
anentropic wrote: post #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

I think I follow, thank you. Perhaps a reduced animation option (or respecting prefers-reduced-motion setting) would help.

While we're on the topic, I found the animations in between puzzles too distracting, particularly given there's a timer. If you're timing me, the puzzle better let me play as fast I can!

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Post by definitelyhuman »

Well executed unique approach, great job! I’ve worked in games my whole life, and that’s hard to do!

Like others, I personally don’t like the time pressure and have really enjoyed the async one a day whenever format of wordle. It largely depends on your target audience and objectives for whether it’s right for this game. Separate zen/challenge modes would help players self select, but also muddies the onboarding. Great job though, fun game!

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Post by armoredkitten »

neogodless wrote: post #39

Playing on latest Firefox, Windows 10. Was doing the easiest one, and at 1:14 in the fifth round after I typed in the letters for the third row, it just froze up. Didn't say I won or ran out of time. Not sure if that's how it ends or it bugged out. 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 ex…

Definitely doesn't end like that -- when I finished, it gave sort of a summary screen with the performance for each round (kind of similar-ish to Wordle's summary screen). So sounds like it bugged out for you.

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Post by shubhamkrm »

gamerDude wrote: post #14

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.

Same here. No keyboard in portrait mode. When I change to landscape mode, I can see the first row of letters to guess, but that's it.

If it helps, I'm using Chrome on OnePlus Nord.

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Post by beepy »

gamerDude wrote: post #14

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.

I think I've fixed this (hopefully without breaking something else). Give it another look if you can and let me know.

Re: Show HN: Three Magic Words

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Post by beepy »

definitelyhuman wrote: post #52

Well executed unique approach, great job! I’ve worked in games my whole life, and that’s hard to do! Like others, I personally don’t like the time pressure and have really enjoyed the async one a day whenever format of wordle. It largely depends on your target audience and objectives for whether it’s right for this game. Separate zen/challenge modes would help players self select, but also muddies the onboarding. Gre…

Thanks! Not sure what to do with it, to be honest.

I had trouble finding the game satisfying without some goal beyond just solving it. However, speed is not required unless you care — you can win without collecting the stars. Perhaps it would be enough to have a well-worded checkbox on the play page ("Chill mode," "don't pressure me", "I'll take my time", something).

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Post by atuladhar »

airstrike wrote: post #50
atuladhar wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Using dpaste is a great idea! But I just realized that I was reading the clues wrong -- I thought the gray tiles were the user's attempts, not clues that the game gave you as already correct. It does indeed look like a bug or it's using a very obscure word. Sorry!
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