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 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 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.
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
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)
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 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.
Had a similar issue, several of my words weren't accepted.
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
That's impressive! How have you been attracting players?
Just sitting at 99,736 plays since March!!
7 letter words are too long. I'm finding trouble thinking of any.
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.
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
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.
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.
Think this needs calibration, it's way too hard!
I don't get it. I type a word and nothing happens?
There's "Go" button in lower left corner
Go button needs to be a different colour/contrast. I also didn’t see it
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