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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
never generate a puzzle with two solutions, or accept both solutions. in this case that puzzle had more solutions because it rejected keeps and bully as well
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#93Is this a bug or am I missing something here? Looks like I'm out of vowels... https://imgur.com/a/D57IgjE
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#94- The animations definitely detract for me. It feels like it's about to start showing pop up ads or videos that I have to watch for 30 seconds before continuing
- I just ignored the timer. Making it optional is a great idea
- I don't have any problem with multiple possible solutions. That's just part of the game.
- Would I play again? TBH, probably not. The "fill in the blanks" dynamic just doesn't feel very challenging. Maybe hard mode would be better, but as I understand it I have to wait for later in the week for that, and then presumably on Monday it will cycle back to easy?
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#95I 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 hear you. I personally found the game less interesting before I added the "threat" of losing stars — it felt to me more like trial-and-error work. However, I think there is value in embracing its more meditative side and offering untimed (and I supposed, star-less) play as well.
If you really want something to formulate a score, count the number of guesses.
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#96I don't so much mind the multiple solutions - if you get the 'wrong' one, that's a new datapoint and you need to guess again, hangman style - but I don't like that it counts as a wrong guess in your stats.
But yeah, I'll play this again for sure.
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#97It's too easy.
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#98 - - G G Y
- E E - S
- - - - Y
O P U
B F K L L
Possible solutions: b u G G Y
p E E k S
f o l l Y
f o G G Y
p E E k S
b u l l Y
f o G G Y
p E E l S
b u l k Y
I wrote down the solutions ahead of typing them in, in this order, and was extremely frustrated that the answers I came up with, which were correct, did not read your mind. Even more frustrating because when coming up with the solutions I discarded "PEELS" because it's just a four-letter-word with an S at the end, not a proper five-letter-word. It shouldn't have been a solution.