Please don't give me a hint if I didn't ask for it! Maybe make a hint button that becomes enabled at a certain time.
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#52It 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!)
It won't let you use the same letters in the same order again (e.g. LEASE -> LEASED). I think that's fair.
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#53It 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!)
It won't let you use the same letters in the same order again (e.g. LEASE -> LEASED). I think that's fair.
I agree that this would be fair, but it seemingly not true. "SEA" disallows "SEAL" on the next turn (correct answer ALES,) but then you are suddenly allowed to use "SEALED" later - because of my assumption of the rule, I didn't get this stage until the clue. Same with "LEASE" and "LEADERS," which are both allowed to use "LEA."
So it seems as though the rule is, you must mix up the letters for the following answer, but further answers are fair game to reuse letter combinations (or, it is applied arbitrarily.) Neither are very intuitive IMO.
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#54Very cool, little improvements: the hint I got contained the ethymological "root" of the word to find. Might be better to make the hint never leak too much on the word itself
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#55It 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!)
It won't let you use the same letters in the same order again (e.g. LEASE -> LEASED). I think that's fair.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
All words are made up
That’s what luipugs said. An interesting twist on this game might be that spelling is enforced to be non-standard. Here are letters, here’s the meaning, make the word but it must not be spelt right.
No, they said that in Australia words are made up. I'm not disagreeing, but I'm saying that it's not specific to Australia!
Tangentially, it's funny to me that you happen to use "spelt" here; I've always felt that it doesn't look like a "real" word and choose to use "spelled" instead, but I also recognize that this is entirely my own personal thing and not reflective of anything other than my own issues. It's a great example to me though of how trying to push personal feelings about words against a wider consensus mostly just leads to frustration without any real gains, so it's less frustrating in the long to be able to live with the fact that they won't always match up.
Language is weird and wonderful and despite often being inconsistent and sometimes outright annoying, it's also extremely powerful, and it works well maybe because of the resiliency it needs to withstand the very real limitations it has, and I choose to embrace it all and enjoy it! (I also suspect is why I enjoy puns way more than average; to quote one of my former coworkers, "words are toys")
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#57This is a fantastic little word game. The staggered entry animation and the typing UX are incredibly polished.
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#59It 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!)
It won't let you use the same letters in the same order again (e.g. LEASE -> LEASED). I think that's fair.
OK yeah, that does sound fine once you say it, but since the only stated rule is “one more letter”, I don’t think it’s obvious enough.
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#60Interesting. how did you build it?