1. I found it distracting the instructions were an image instead of text. I sometimes drag my cursor along lines in bulleted lists and was surprised the image started moving.
2. Why can I drag the directions across the page? Is that a bug?
3. The instructions are very concise and clear.
4. Why is there a `*` after `values` in the fourth item?
5. Would you enable a "click to teleport letter to next position of 'active' word" so I don't have to drag the mouse across the screen so many times? Or some other way to get answers up faster?
6. It would be nice if I had an indicator that one of the words I got fits in the global solution. How do you feel about enabling an "easy mode" or something that allows instant feedback for this?
7. It is nice you have the top possible score in the header. Would it be more obvious if it was made to stand out somehow (maybe 43/380 points or something)?
1. Will fix this! It's because I'm using jQuery draggable for moving the letters.
2. Same as above.
3. Thanks!
4. The score is letter values multiplied by word length (will make this more clear).
5. Yes this would be a great improvement.
6. Yes this would be good.
7. Will play around with this design.
8. Thanks!
Looks fun, but drag and drop (at least on desktop) is just too finicky to play for any length without being frustrated.
Any chance of just being able to type the letters and hit enter/up+down to change lines?
This is pretty great, there's a lot of potential here. I find myself wanting a "clear" button (maybe one per line?), as I try different things it's annoying to have to drag them around to different lines. And when I see the score for a set of words and realize I still have quite a ways to go, it'd be nice to just bring them all back down and start over again.
I was dismayed to have two words rejected that I thought were by all accounts legitimate. What's the word list you are using? Since they got rejected, there is probably no issue with mentioning them here: "hoplite" and "caltrop".
Each letter is given a weight and it's multiplied by the length of the word it's part of to get its effective weight. Sum it up for all letters and you get the final score. Here, it seems like two 10 letter words can be formed using the given 20. Hint - blackboard is one such word.
Thanks for playing! Right now the score is calculated by letter value multiplied by word length so longer words score more points. Open to feedback on this as wasn't sure best scoring.
I think a mix of word length and rarity might be the way to go. Information entropy would be a helpful approach here (look up the 3Brown1Blue video on Wordle).
I disagree on the rarity piece, I think it will be more frustrating if you can't predict how to improve your score. Length is straightforward because you know your strategy should always be to make the fewest longest words.
Oh, that's a much harder one than Wordle, this is interesting. I was surprised when "calc" wasn't accepted, I've heard Americans use it so often. Is it not really considered a full word?
This seems very similar to NYT Spelling Bee? Except the central letter constraint is missing and it lays out certain letters multiple times visually. Note that in Spelling bee too letters can be used multiple times. At the least author should call this an inspiration from
spelling bee. Anyways, will give it a go.
In full honesty I've never seen or played spelling bee haha, but yes definitely some similarities after looking now! The inspiration came more from scrabble than anything else
Don’t worry, it’s nothing like Spelling Bee at all except that they’re both word games. Spelling Bee is more similar to Boggle than this. I think the other commenter misunderstood your game.
I enjoyed this and agree with many of the comments here - typing would be far easier and more fun! It might also be fun to add a "hint" where it gives you one of the words in the top scoring solution - maybe just as is, or even jumbled up. Overall, great concept and I look forward to playing more often!
Fun game. Works well on iPhone 13, but doesn’t work on iPhone SE (screen doesn’t fit and there is no way to scroll). Another thought, would be great to see how score compares to others or the average, best score, fastest, etc).
I don't know what dictionary is being used here, but rabbiter and looper were both rejected despite being in the UK and US Scrabble Words lists. That's immensely annoying.
On the scale of how annoying things are, it's somewhere between the squeaking noise my office chair makes if I lean back too far and the threat of global thermonuclear war.
The text you get when you click share should indicate which puzzle you solved, in some way (e.g. like the number in "Wordle 247 3/6").
Having some kind of graphic in this sharing text would feel nicer, I think, as well, somehow.
(Could be just sequences of green blocks for each word, basically just showing how long the words you made are.)
Yep this would be great. I was surprised that my two 10 letter words didn’t get the full score, so would be curious to see what the winning solution was.
1. I found it distracting the instructions were an image instead of text. I sometimes drag my cursor along lines in bulleted lists and was surprised the image started moving.
2. Why can I drag the directions across the page? Is that a bug?
3. The instructions are very concise and clear.
4. Why is there a `*` after `values` in the fourth item?
5. Would you enable a "click to teleport letter to next position of 'active' word" so I don't have to drag the mouse across the screen so many times? Or some other way to get answers up faster?
6. It would be nice if I had an indicator that one of the words I got fits in the global solution. How do you feel about enabling an "easy mode" or something that allows instant feedback for this?
7. It is nice you have the top possible score in the header. Would it be more obvious if it was made to stand out somehow (maybe 43/380 points or something)?
8. The interface is super clean. Nice job!