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by ludovicianul

1 hour ago

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SubiculumCode

20 seconds ago

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Fun game. The concept is good. However:

I couldn't find the go button for a while...finally realized it was part of the keyboard...that could be better

I don't get the colors on the keys, as intuitively it seems like it should be the available letters in the current position, but they don't change based on the letter spot I would be currently typing in.

I wanted to share my result with a friend who loves word games, but there was no share button. Also pasting the link does not come up with a web preview in slack/messengers.

It would be nice to be able to go back and play past days.

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snarf21

8 minutes ago

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The high/lo feels unintuitive to me .. Down on a P makes me thing R-Z not A-O.

I actually think left/right is a more clear visual and mental model.

I like the game and it is quite difficult sometimes to come up with a legal word that gives you an improved anchor point for the binary search.

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4chandaily

1 hour ago

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I loaded the puzzle and was presented with an empty 7 character prompt. I tried typing in three different seven-letter words, and each time I hit "GO", I was told the word was "Not in the word list".

With no further guidance given, I closed the tab.

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saberience

59 minutes ago

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Had a similar issue, several of my words weren't accepted.

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some_random

35 minutes ago

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Cool in principle, but I had an awful lot of trouble finding 7 letter words on the wordlist.

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captaincrunch

1 hour ago

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I recently did the same (made a daily game) and I am approaching 100k plays since March. https://plot-hole.com - the best thing so far about this app has been the analytics which you can check out here: https://plot-hole.com/daily-analytics-82u4fhrvw

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doophus

24 minutes ago

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That's impressive! How have you been attracting players?

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captaincrunch

1 hour ago

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Just sitting at 99,736 plays since March!!

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vibcdingenjoyer

49 minutes ago

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I agree with everyone else who’s commented up to this point. But I’ll say what they’re saying more clearly: it’s a bit too difficult. I love the idea though.

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chrisweekly

26 minutes ago

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Wow this is pretty hard. I usually do well with word games, this one not so much. I may have just dodged being nerdsniped if I can just let it go.

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dec0dedab0de

1 hour ago

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I think a practice mode, or letting people play the older games would be good. I can think of a few older people who would love this, but would definitely need a few tries to get the hang of it.

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nmstoker

1 hour ago

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Looks good. What's with the submit buttons being put on the left on virtual game keyboards, even though Return/Enter usually on the right on typical keyboards. Wordle also does this.

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rfl890

50 minutes ago

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Having the backspace on the left would probably mess up most mobile typers' muscle memory, and since that key is pressed once vs backspace which might be pressed multiple times, it would be a sensible tradeoff to keep submit on the left side

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captaincrunch

1 hour ago

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I struggled with an input box for the first month on my game, Apple and its crazy UI/UX. I think you made the right choice with the keyboard.

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ronbenton

21 minutes ago

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Think this needs calibration, it's way too hard!

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dalmo3