Totally agree! Whenever I’ve done them in the past, I’ve provided both sets of clues so people could choose their own adventure. Might test the waters in a week or two by proving two options to see if any takers!

Any love for cryptic clues? Or would the increase to solve time be undesirable 😅

No no, don’t let the current design be cause of calling yourself dumb! That’s an excellent first-time score!

1. 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!

2. 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.

3. Will look into this one!

4. 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

Nicely done!! Wednesday and Friday get a little harder but now you know the lay of the land!

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!

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!!

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!

Hey Jefe! Yes that’s a really odd one. On puzzles where there is only one long word it, doesn’t seem to be an issue, only when a second word is there! I’ve marked it high priority for a fix so hopefully won’t be a problem in future puzzles. Nicely done on the solve!!

Cheers, sushigrass! Solid time. A 16-letter anagram is not easy!

Hey fugitive!

Thank you for taking the time to type that all out for me. Yes, absolutely, mobile definitely needs some work and that last letter bug I’ve made a priority to get fixed. I’ll reply here when those get addressed! Thanks for the encouragement!

Thanks, Walden! That’s a solid time for a Friday puzzle and you had to navigate the scrappiness. Thanks for sticking with it on mobile! Monday is typically only a 3x3 grid and 9-letter anagram, so I suspect you might break sub 3 mins if you tackle that one next week!