When I lose it doesn’t seem to tell me what the correct answer was, is that correct?
That's right, I wasn't sure whether the answer should be revealed or not, so I left it out. Do you think the answer should be revealed, or should the player be given more tries?
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#52Definitely more challenging but it needs some nice to haves like showing which letters haven't been guessed or that couldn't possibly matter (a zero, zero row). Also, I don't like having to press enter. But overall fun.
Yeah, I think a keyboard that shows used letters just like Wordle does would be a nice addition. Thanks!
2. Can go one step further, e.g. if a guess has X-0 and all there's only X cells that are not greyed out (see above), mark them as green in all correct guesses on board.
3. After these two steps, step 1 can be applied again since there will be more such cases where it can be applied.
You might argue that it steals from the game, but I'd disagree - it leaves the high level strategy to the player while saving them from dealing with the boilerplate. A very good example of that is Good Sudoku game (app), where they've tried to innovate on classic sudoku interface for similar purposes - I highly recommend checking it out since it's somewhat close to this game in some regards.
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#53What's with Wordle like games popping out here on HN
You must have not been around during the floppening (a term I coined for the release of Floppy Bird to the world), when Floppy Bird clones abounded.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flappy_Bird
Though I don't think the term "flappening" is quite as endearing.
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
You must have not been around during the floppening (a term I coined for the release of Floppy Bird to the world), when Floppy Bird clones abounded.
The game was called Flappy Bird. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flappy_Bird Though I don't think the term "flappening" is quite as endearing.
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#56My two favourite starting words (SOARE and CLINT[0]) are tagged as invalid here, whereas they're valid in the original game. Literally unplayable /s (Seriously - cool idea, nice execution!) [0] https://blog.scubbo.org/posts/cheating-at-word-games-part-2/
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#57An easy mode could provide a querty keyboard that one can eliminate letters.
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#58Take 2 or 3 presses for Enter to submit on Firefox on Android.
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#60I can't find a way to exit the "how to play" screen. Hitting back on Android exits the game.