Here is Monday’s puzzle this week! We have a fix in the pipeline for the last letter issue in the scramble on mobile, but that shouldn’t affect this puzzle. Still ideal on desktop for now!
Hope you enjoy!
Instructions:
- Solve the grid using the clues provided. The direction of the word is indicated by the number around the grid (so some words are backwards).
- After you complete the grid, click the pencil icon tab at the bottom to switch over to solve the anagram. The title is a hint to the anagram!
5:38 fist time, a great game! a few suggestions for stupid people like me.
1- I missed you instructions in the post and there is nothing in the game regarding how to play other than the “Solve the crossword, words begin at the numbers, some clues might be reversed”. You should add the rest or make an instructions button to bring it up.
2- Have the button for the scramble be something other than a pencil icon, took forever to figure out that there was a scramble ( having not read the instructions in the post) with the “not quite” pop up getting frustrating. The pencil icon looks like an “edit” icon so I never clicked it. I found the scramble by accident swiping right.
3- Cache the game so leaving and returning does not clear it but provide a reset button.
4- provide a copy results to clipboard (share) function.
No no, don’t let the current design be cause of calling yourself dumb! That’s an excellent first-time score!
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I’ve put “have instructions” as a high priority fix on our dev board, so I’m hoping we’ll be able to get something up in a week or two to this effect!
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The end goal is to move everything to a single page layout so we won’t need to switch tabs at all! Agree it’s not intuitive right now.
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Will look into this one!
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This is big on my list once the user interface issues are sorted, completely agree. We need the instructions first and then the mobile bugs to be fixed before I share this more broadly in places where I can’t interact with the wonderful people bearing with the current interface <3
Happy to provide some unit testing feedback, I will keep an eye out for the next iterstion.
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7:38 first time playing
Nicely done!! Wednesday and Friday get a little harder but now you know the lay of the land!
Solved in 4:41 first time playing
I think the unscramble part should be on the same page like we should scroll down to it instead of pressing the pencil icon.
That’s a solid first-time score, especially trying to navigate the slight awkwardness of it!
I also think you’re completely correct. Having it on the second page also doesn’t make the connection as clear that the grid and phrase are anagrams of each other, whereas if you can see the “letter scramble bank” and roman numeral spaces populating as you solve the grid, then the connection is more established. We have some preliminary designs in the works to shift it to a single-page model, so our thinking is in line with yours!!
Neat, also cool concept I forgot to add that lol
I think there should also be an option to share results and copy it to the clipboard like wordle does with the emojis, like maybe show which squares the player got wrong before getting them right
Something like
🟩🟥🟥 🟩🟩🟩 🟥🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟥🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩And to prevent it from being too long, limit how many times the player can submit/check the answers. That also makes a loss condition as well, and prioritizes maintaining a streak
There absolutely needs to be a social share option. I’ve been mulling on it for a while now and haven’t come up with something I’m completely happy with yet. I do like the grid layout you have here though so I’ll see if I can incorporate that into my current line of thinking for it! Maybe it stays as a single grid, but 1 instance of a wrong letter in a cell gets you a yellow, but 2 or more wrong letter instances gets you a red? Ideally the anagram portion is represented somehow as well, perhaps with a similar system!
As for the puzzle checking, I’m contemplating an easy and hard mode. Easy mode would allow checking at any time, and checking would also lock in correct letters for both grid and anagram. Hard mode only tells you if the grid or anagram is correct, and perhaps a limit could be enforced! I’m more of the mind that if you complete the puzzle, your streak remains, but perhaps there could be tiers of streak (gold star for flawless complete, silver for a wrong letter or two, bronze for completing at all) - the stars could also be involved in the social sharing!
1:40 today! Not bad for a Monday puzzle, I suppose.
You beat me by 1 second!
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Not bad at all! I’ve seen a few veteran solvers manage sub-minute scores, but the current user interface doesn’t lend itself nicely to speed runs. Plans in the works to help make inputting much easier but will take a bit of time to implement!
