Looks like the game can get itself into invalid states: https://imgur.com/a/3Wktj10. Don't want to spoil this board, but there are incorrect letters accepted as green here.
* edit: just saw that oceliker ran into the same issue.
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#102This isn't a logic game, this is a game of "guess what word I'm thinking of". - - G G Y - E E - S - - - - Y O P U B F K L L Possible solutions: b u G G Y p E E k S f o l l Y f o G G Y p E E k S b u l l Y f o G G Y p E E l S b u l k Y I wrote down the solutions ahead of typing them in, in this order, and was extremely frustrated that the answers I came up with, which were correct, did not read your mind. Even more fru…
It ought to do a better job of explaining that there are specific words it's looking for. Originally I did explore the game you thought that this game was — create any 3 words using all the loose tiles — but the problem is, there are around 12K five-letter words in standard word game play. My game has an imperfect list of less than 33% of these that can be recognized by most people. It would be too easy to guess an acceptable word, only to have the remaining words technically legal, but not among the remaining guessable words, and worse, possibly offensive. If I limit it to only the guessable words, then for many people, words they reasonably expected to be accepted would be inexplicably rejected.
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#104This isn't a logic game, this is a game of "guess what word I'm thinking of". - - G G Y - E E - S - - - - Y O P U B F K L L Possible solutions: b u G G Y p E E k S f o l l Y f o G G Y p E E k S b u l l Y f o G G Y p E E l S b u l k Y I wrote down the solutions ahead of typing them in, in this order, and was extremely frustrated that the answers I came up with, which were correct, did not read your mind. Even more fru…
>I discarded "PEELS" because it's just a four-letter-word with an S at the end, not a proper five-letter-word
Did you discard "PEEKS" on the same basis?
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#105This isn't a logic game, this is a game of "guess what word I'm thinking of". - - G G Y - E E - S - - - - Y O P U B F K L L Possible solutions: b u G G Y p E E k S f o l l Y f o G G Y p E E k S b u l l Y f o G G Y p E E l S b u l k Y I wrote down the solutions ahead of typing them in, in this order, and was extremely frustrated that the answers I came up with, which were correct, did not read your mind. Even more fru…
It ought to do a better job of explaining that there are specific words it's looking for. Originally I did explore the game you thought that this game was — create any 3 words using all the loose tiles — but the problem is, there are around 12K five-letter words in standard word game play. My game has an imperfect list of less than 33% of these that can be recognized by most people. It would be too easy to guess an a…
Requirements imo, should be
1) All used words are guessable
2) There are no possible alternate solutions with unguessable words
I haven't done the math, but I suspect there are plenty of solutions like this, you'll just have to calculate them.
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#106This isn't a logic game, this is a game of "guess what word I'm thinking of". - - G G Y - E E - S - - - - Y O P U B F K L L Possible solutions: b u G G Y p E E k S f o l l Y f o G G Y p E E k S b u l l Y f o G G Y p E E l S b u l k Y I wrote down the solutions ahead of typing them in, in this order, and was extremely frustrated that the answers I came up with, which were correct, did not read your mind. Even more fru…
> I discarded "PEELS" because it's just a four-letter-word with an S at the end, not a proper five-letter-word Did you discard "PEEKS" on the same basis?
Good point, I missed that one.
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#107Looks like the game can get itself into invalid states: https://imgur.com/a/3Wktj10 . Don't want to spoil this board, but there are incorrect letters accepted as green here. * edit: just saw that oceliker ran into the same issue.
Yeah I am trying to figure this out. I have not been able to reproduce it. It should not be possible; I think the UI state is getting out of sync with the true puzzle state. It looks like you tried VIALS - do you know if you interacting pretty quickly? Using the keyboard or not? Another person reported weirdness with tiles that were supposed to be getting locked in place instead being replaceable. I wonder if the final row was merrily animating its lock into place sequence, then you typed VIALS, and it permitted those to moved, falsely locking them into place in the other word?
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#108Looks like the game can get itself into invalid states: https://imgur.com/a/3Wktj10 . Don't want to spoil this board, but there are incorrect letters accepted as green here. * edit: just saw that oceliker ran into the same issue.
Yeah I am trying to figure this out. I have not been able to reproduce it. It should not be possible; I think the UI state is getting out of sync with the true puzzle state. It looks like you tried VIALS - do you know if you interacting pretty quickly? Using the keyboard or not? Another person reported weirdness with tiles that were supposed to be getting locked in place instead being replaceable. I wonder if the fin…
I was using the mouse to drag around letters, not the keyboard. It was my first time playing and I was still wrapping my head around basic game concepts, so it's unlikely that I was interacting quickly.
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#109I honestly thought you had copied wordle. Well done on powering through. Finishing a project like this is an accomplishment in itself and the fact it is polished adds to it.
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#110The game seems to expect a particular solution even when there are multiple possibilities of forming correct words. For example, I tried "peeks" & "bully" but the game only accepted "peels" & "bulky". This is frustrating, as one has to "mind-read" the game. Another thing to improve is to reduce the frequency of plural forms. Plurals are just a cop-out to turn four-letter words into five-letter words. ;)
You realize that this is exactly how wordle works right?