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Post by 40four »

Waterluvian wrote: post #28

The timer makes it not enjoyable for me. It seems necessary to the game design and I’m not being negatively critical. Just sharing an additional perspective. I’ve been playing Zanagrams and the ability to hide the clock really improved my enjoyment of that game. If I could magically get a feature by request, it would be to give me infinite time even if that meant my score came with an asterisk. Maybe just call it Rel…

I actually kind of liked the timer. It gave me a sense of urgency and exhilaration! Word games have never been my favorite, but this has a different feel. But I can see giving the option to turn it off, and fine tuning the timed mode. Seems like some real potential here

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Post by comradesmith »

rfool wrote: post #300

Nice! I think a big part of the success-to-fail-ratio is Subitizing. Interestingly, whenever I failed, the correct answer felt totally obvious - and I wonder how this observation relates to frame semantics theory? And not being native english speaker (as you, reading my comment, may have noticed) makes this harder, but still an exciting game.

(We didn’t)

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Post by montag »

rfool wrote: post #300

Nice! I think a big part of the success-to-fail-ratio is Subitizing. Interestingly, whenever I failed, the correct answer felt totally obvious - and I wonder how this observation relates to frame semantics theory? And not being native english speaker (as you, reading my comment, may have noticed) makes this harder, but still an exciting game.

What is subitizing?

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Post by nathandaly »

Enjoyed this! I would love to be able to go back and review the words after completing the puzzle. I got one with exactly 1 second left, and wanted to tell my partner, but I can't remember which word it was now.

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Post by alastairr »

pompomsheep wrote: post #100

Thanks everyone for the feedback! Two questions 1. For a version without the timer what would you like to happen if you are just completely stuck on a word? Hints to reveal letters or skip the word? 2. For those who like the timed version would you prefer to continue when you miss a word and then get a final score out of 18?

It's really good, love it!

My vote would be no countdown, but you could have a hidden timer and use that for ranking at the end, so that there's still and incentive to think fast.

If you can have infinite time on each turn, then I think hints may not be as required.

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Post by steve_adams_86 »

Fascinating, I am remarkably bad at this and consistently fail at the 8th word. This might be limitation caused by whatever ADHD does to me; in particular, holding the sets of letters in my memory as I try to compose words in my mind. It's a struggle. Super fun, though. I should probably practice this.

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Post by tclancy »

pompomsheep wrote: post #131
tclancy wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who definitely gets worked up when there’s a timer (still got all 18; top 1% really? Might be good to show a rough number of total players), I don’t really get it without a timer. I am with the people asking for a scramble/ shuffle button. I have to do anagrams all the time in cryptic crosswords and sometimes it requires seeing things in a totally different order to unlock the answer.

According to my analytics only 32 people out of 12,145 got all 18 in todays puzzle so far!

What is everyone else doing? I’m a moron.
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