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Re: Show HN: 18 Words

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Post by Cheetah26 »

pompomsheep wrote: post #330

Update: The game amazingly had 132,411 players yesterday and received tons of player feedback. After a long night talking with players and play testing I’ve shipped the following changes: . 1. I’ve kept the 30 second timer but you now continue through the whole 18 words to get a final score of x/18. 2. I’ve added a new share feature to better show your result in a similar Wordle style. . Thanks again for all the feed…

Just want to say that I love the update!

I didn't read the comments after trying it out yesterday so I was surprised by the change, but it definitely feels better to keep going.

Re: Show HN: 18 Words

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Post by fsckboy »

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?

how about a version that shows all the words at once and you can work on them in the order you want, skip and go back. (for a phone show one and a person can click "later" to move a difficult word to the end of the queue)

and the whole thing is timed counting up, and how long it took is the score.

the way it is now with a countdown timer for each word, the player doesn't get a reward for solving something quickly

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Post by 21-DOT-DEV »

Been really enjoying this game, great stuff! I think it would be helpful if there was a button that shuffles the character placement around. I feel like a word’s arrangement noticeably changes its difficulty.

Re: Show HN: 18 Words

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Post by blobdole »

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?

I am someone that generally is not a fan of timers in my games, but this one was not very restrictive and the punishment for failing it was minor (missing that question instead of ending the game).

So I would say No to #1 and yes to #2.

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Post by nmenon10 »

Got to 13 before blanking on what turned out to be a pretty obvious word. Personally, I think the timer mechanic that would work best here might be a running bank rather than a per-word reset. Start with X seconds, and when you solve a word add back N seconds scaled to word length. Fast solves on easy words give you buffer for the hard ones. Keeps the pressure without the "lose a potential perfect score on one brain-freeze" frustration.

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Post by [deleted] »

vicnov wrote: post #122

I think there is probably a research paper hiding inside this game. I couldn't guess Dice because, as an ESL person, I couldn't make the D-i combo sound like /d/+ /aɪ/ in my head (it sounded as /d/ + /ɪ/), so a part of my neural circuitry didn't fire, and I couldn't complete it with `ce.` In other words I, personally, in this pattern recognition game rely on the way words sounds in my head to find familiar combinatio…

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