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murphyslab | 1 year ago

Fun game, although it would be helpful to have the "How to Play" instructions ( https://huewords.snellman.net/help.html ) explicitly state that shorter letter sequences (2,3,4 letters) do not need to form words. That's an expectation built up from many other crossword games, so it would be good to nullify it through a clear statement that the usual crossword rules do not apply here.

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jsnell|1 year ago

Thanks, I've added an explicit statement to that effect.

The instructions were very terse to start with, due to a misguided attempt to keep them to one page even on tiny screens for aesthetic reasons. I gave up on that, but maybe didn't take enough advantage of the now infinite available space.

llamaz|1 year ago

Excellent game. I also suggest adding instructions that words can only be top down or left-to-right.

I was trying to fit right-to-left in some cases initially.