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".
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.
In terms of difficulty,hard but achievable. Might think on a difficulty slider, or a climb (first solve 5 letter, if won, 6, then 7?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In terms of difficulty,hard but achievable. Might think on a difficulty slider, or a climb (first solve 5 letter, if won, 6, then 7?
I really like this, it kind of reminds me of "Hangman"!
A few ideas, if you don't mind:
1. Have a "normal" mode and "master" mode, where the normal mode has words with maybe 5 letters and the master mode uses 7 letters
2. Have an archive of previous games - kinda sucks that I can't play the old ones!
3. Contrast on the up/down arrows on letters isn't clear enough, at least not for me (colour blind)
Cool in principle, but I had an awful lot of trouble finding 7 letter words on the wordlist.
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.
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
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.
7 letter words are too long. I'm finding trouble thinking of any.
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.
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.
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.
I don't get it. I type a word and nothing happens?
Think this needs calibration, it's way too hard!
No archive of previous games?
I like the idea but it takes a lot of thinking power that I have to come up with actual words that long each time.
this feels like a fun premise!
As feedback, I think I'd enjoy it more with shorter words or more guesses