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Don't know why but it takes 2 backspace to erase a letter on Android Firefox.
When you press backspace, the focus shifts to the previous cell, deleting the contents of the current cell. When you've entered < 5 characters in the current row, the focus is on the next empty cell. So the first backspace only takes you back to the previous cell, and the second backspace clears the last entered character.
Not sure how you make this more obvious, perhaps I'm just slow today, but I failed because I didn't twig that when I got a letter in the right place it would make the right hand number go _down_ as well as incrementing the left number. I.e. I thought the right number was the total correct letters rather than just the count of letters that were correct _and_ in the wrong place.
When I lose it doesn’t seem to tell me what the correct answer was, is that correct?
That's right, I wasn't sure whether the answer should be revealed or not, so I left it out. Do you think the answer should be revealed, or should the player be given more tries?
also, would be nice to keep track of time taken in secs - as I find myself coming back to it between other tasks.
What's with Wordle like games popping out here on HN
One tech note: please consider disabling autocorrect in the letter input fields, as I was getting popups whenever I entered an i.
Definitely more challenging but it needs some nice to haves like showing which letters haven't been guessed or that couldn't possibly matter (a zero, zero row). Also, I don't like having to press enter. But overall fun.
Yeah, I think a keyboard that shows used letters just like Wordle does would be a nice addition. Thanks!
And if the keyboard highlighted "right place" letters for the most recent guess it wouldn't be mastermind.
So really it would just show letters you have or have not yet guessed, but without any indication on if they are right, or in the right place.
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Cool game! My first thought is a button for [Add Extra Try] to add one row, and another for [I Give Up - Tell Me] I also second the thought on not using red as the colors for the correct letters. Perhaps white-on-green for the in-correct-position count and white or blue-on-light-gray for the -present-out-of-place count?
Yeah I think that's the way to go, will leave it up to the player to decide. Will also change the colors to match the green/amber color coding, thanks!
So perhaps a Mastermind theme and a Wordle them?
:) If it's worth the effort!