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- average time to correct answer - correct percentage
I think you should leave it hard like this. Make people earn that perfect score. Maybe add a dedicated clear button. Others have mentioned shuffle but I think you should leave as is, it's more challenging. Awesome stuff I'm going to send this to my mom she will be addicted.
I like the idea, but I didn't like losing after a few words. Now it might just be me not being good at losing, but who is? Maybe the game can always progress to the next word with your total score being reduced. So if you get all within 30 seconds you score 18/18. That way everyone can play the whole game and share with their friends how far they got: |X|o|X|X|X|o|o|o|X|X|X|X|X|X|X|X|o|X| 13/18
https://wordnerd.co/23words/ is similar (but 23 words instead of 18). Possibly the biggest difference is that 23 Words continues with the next word if you fail to get a word within 30 seconds. When you have attempted all 23 words it will present you with results like this. You found 21/23 words Top 7% of players today.
I'm pretty sure it didn't used to continue after getting one wrong.
I played it and the other word nerd games every day for a few months, but eventually they get repetitive, which I suppose any generated game will.
Embarrassed of where I failed (#8). Very cool game though!
My theory is that if there's a small but non-trivial chance for our brains to for some reason fail to recognize a word, stringing together enough of them in a row will end up causing most people to suddenly have that moment out of nowhere. It kind of reminded me of that episode of Friends with the bit about writing down all 50 states in a certain amount of time; perfect consistency even for things we know well can sometimes be surprisingly hard!
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?
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14 was taken.
I see what you did there. I did a double take when I saw this on the front page of HN. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Words
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?
Something about not being able to shuffle the tiles makes this hard for me.
Agreed, I'd really like a shuffle button
I loved it, i hated it. I'm so bad at this. I think summarizing everybody's feedback the simplest solution is: "Game difficulty". - Standard: what you have today - Relaxed: 1 minute per word? - Practice Mode: no timer whatsoever And "Practice Mode" is a completely different mode that lets you skip questions, and instead of "you win / you lose" which is today's behavior, you end up with a score (14/18).