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Re: Show HN: Three Magic Words

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Post by beepy »

sprak wrote: post #12

Nice game. I liked the feel of moving the tiles. There is a slight problem when I first enter a new puzzle. The movable tiles are below the screen! [0] (On Android, standard Chrome browser). It fixes itself if I rotate to landscape and then back to portrait. So far I like the word list you've used. But I've only tried the easier days :p. [0]: https://ibb.co/7NvPTnM

Thank you!

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Post by albert_e »

funwares wrote: post #4

Works absolutely flawlessly on mobile for me (Android Firefox). The animations are very satisfying and the game is very fun. Fantastic work! edit: This is on OxygenOS 11.1.2.2 and FireFox 96.3.1

on my phone (Samsung Galaxy Note10+, Chrome) ... the layout is broken ... the "keyboard" / available tiles at the bottom are off screen and invisible / inaccessible

Re: Show HN: Three Magic Words

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Post by beepy »

phillc73 wrote: post #20

I liked the game and have never played Wordle, so can't really compare. However, I was stuck on one specific set of words for a long time due to spelling issues. The word I couldn't grok was "armor", whereas my brain would by default only recognise "armour". It'd be a nice small enhancement to state clearly what dictionary was being used for the spellings.

Yes, that should be explicitly stated. Thank you!

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Post by beepy »

anentropic wrote: post #19

Bug: if you click the next letter while the 'victory' animation for the previous letter is still playing, it replaces the previous correct letter with the new one you clicked, instead of putting the second letter in the next empty space Too much animation overall

I think I follow, thank you. Perhaps a reduced animation option (or respecting prefers-reduced-motion setting) would help.

Re: Show HN: Three Magic Words

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Post by iainmerrick »

Very nice! It's a fun game, and looks really nicely implemented.

Congratulations especially on finding the energy to push through and finish this. It must have been a bit disheartening to see Wordle's massive success, and it could have been an easy excuse not to bother finishing your own game (or at least to radically re-think and simplify it into yet another me-too Wordle clone).

Re: Show HN: Three Magic Words

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Post by sprak »

sprak wrote: post #12

Nice game. I liked the feel of moving the tiles. There is a slight problem when I first enter a new puzzle. The movable tiles are below the screen! [0] (On Android, standard Chrome browser). It fixes itself if I rotate to landscape and then back to portrait. So far I like the word list you've used. But I've only tried the easier days :p. [0]: https://ibb.co/7NvPTnM

...and in Firefox on the same Android device everything works fine.
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