Too hard (and i help my wife with crosswords).
Hint mode (put one letter in place) would be the best UI
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#12Pretty fun and challenging! That Q really had me stumped for a bit. May I suggest removing the audio all together or making it mute by default? It was a bit startling. Otherwise, good stuff!
The Q is what gave me the solution. A U in an adjacent quadrant? They must be adjacent.
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#13Nice! It was hard, and I really liked the break-in (spoilers) with the Q and U.
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#14That's really fun. I play a lot of word games online and I will be adding yours to my daily regimen. Clever use of sound too. I may want to turn it off at times but for now at least I'm leaving it on.
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#15I gave up on the puzzle because it was too hard for my end of the week brain. But, a couple of UX suggestions: a) It shouldn't be possible to drop tiles on the grid outside of the word boundaries b) Dropping one tile on another should swap their positions. With both of these implemented, it'd make it easier to move all of the letters onto the grid and then try different options, without too much fiddling.
I noticed on mobile (Chrome on Android) when I tried to drag one of the tiles on the left boundary, my browser executed the page back action instead. You should be able to override this behavior with JavaScript by intercepting the default. I think this is one of the rare cases where that would be appropriate!
Agreed with this comment and the one above it - I think the difficulty is spot on but the UI was a bit frustrating on chrome/android and I may have given up sooner but for my love of solving puzzles.
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#162:12 27 moves, my first guesses for words were correct. The Q was the key for me. Fun game!
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#17I wish there could be some sort of "reveal hint" button for each sector or something, similar to how a crossword puzzle has clues (With some sort of 'points' penalty or something for using a hint). I couldn't figure out any of the words on my first attempt. But it seems like a neat game overall.
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#18What does it mean when the letters become “straight”? I thought it meant they were in the correct spot but it was for what seem impossible letter combinations.
They also seem to become straightened out when not on the bounding boxes, and they seem to be straightened out even when not making real words. But also even when making real words they sometimes show as “broken”.
I see that it references multiple solutions but I’m still confused how that tracks.
EDIT: I ended up “solving” the puzzle but one of the words isn’t a real word, not even in a scrabble dictionary.
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#19I gave up on the puzzle because it was too hard for my end of the week brain. But, a couple of UX suggestions: a) It shouldn't be possible to drop tiles on the grid outside of the word boundaries b) Dropping one tile on another should swap their positions. With both of these implemented, it'd make it easier to move all of the letters onto the grid and then try different options, without too much fiddling.
The QU have to mesh, and there is only one pair of them in the upper half. PIQUED fits.
The rest of the upper left only makes sense as SHIN, which gives SHINGLED going down on the left side.
From there, I got ELIXIR on the bottom cross-piece. ELECTION fit going down on the right.
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#20I gave up on the puzzle because it was too hard for my end of the week brain. But, a couple of UX suggestions: a) It shouldn't be possible to drop tiles on the grid outside of the word boundaries b) Dropping one tile on another should swap their positions. With both of these implemented, it'd make it easier to move all of the letters onto the grid and then try different options, without too much fiddling.
I liked being able to reorder them outside boundaries, but I'd suggest some additional visual cues that might address the same issue:
1. Place an outline around the tile when it's on a word square.
2. Make the quadrant backgrounds a different color, shade, or texture. That will make it easier to see which tiles belong to which quadrant.
Agree on B.