I opened the tab in the background and when i got around to it later somehow i lost the game.... i think you need an official "start" button to prevent this.
Yeah this happened to me too. A timer with auto-start is a bad combination.
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#12Fun! As others mentioned, it's unclear why certain words are rejected. Without clues, there's no reason the player would know which of several anagrams is the "right" one. Seems like it'd be better to accept any valid word, or perhaps have some kind of bonus for finding all of them.
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#13It seems to disallow valid words made with the same letters, which doesn't feel fair. (I don't want to spoil an answer, but -- especially when the word it insists on is arguably French!)
Felt the same way. Failed the last three like that with legitimate words.
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#14I opened the tab in the background and when i got around to it later somehow i lost the game.... i think you need an official "start" button to prevent this.
Also some instructions. I had no idea what I was supposed to do at first.
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#15"Today's run is over"
I hate games of this kind. "You failed. Try again tomorrow." I won't be back. It wasn't enough fun to remember. And I'm not likely to upvote because of these reasons (so it won't appear in my 'upvoted submissions')
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#16I tried "KITERS" and "TRIKES" at the 5 letter level, but the app specifically wanted "STRIKE." It kinda demoralized me to have come up with two answers and not be able to proceed, I realized that it wasn't worth trying to guess before the clue came up so I quit out.
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#17"Today's run is over" I hate games of this kind. "You failed. Try again tomorrow." I won't be back. It wasn't enough fun to remember. And I'm not likely to upvote because of these reasons (so it won't appear in my 'upvoted submissions')
Coupled with the immediate timer start, no instructions. Meh.
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#18I tried "KITERS" and "TRIKES" at the 5 letter level, but the app specifically wanted "STRIKE." It kinda demoralized me to have come up with two answers and not be able to proceed, I realized that it wasn't worth trying to guess before the clue came up so I quit out.
wtf is kiters?
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#19"Today's run is over" I hate games of this kind. "You failed. Try again tomorrow." I won't be back. It wasn't enough fun to remember. And I'm not likely to upvote because of these reasons (so it won't appear in my 'upvoted submissions')
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#20I tried "KITERS" and "TRIKES" at the 5 letter level, but the app specifically wanted "STRIKE." It kinda demoralized me to have come up with two answers and not be able to proceed, I realized that it wasn't worth trying to guess before the clue came up so I quit out.
wtf is kiters?
kiters = kiteboarders. Welcome to Australia, the country where the words are made up and meanings don't matter.