Just to share, here's a couple updates from this weekend:
- Timer pausing
- The pause timer now pauses if you switch to a different day, open a pop-up like About or How to Play, or minimize the browser tab.
- Also, for consistency, the timer now starts as soon as the puzzle is fully revealed (previously it was only when the first letter was moved.)
- If you see anything unexpected in your final solve time please let me know!
- The pause timer now pauses if you switch to a different day, open a pop-up like About or How to Play, or minimize the browser tab.
- Puzzle date in the url (this applies to the-daily-spell.com and does not affect itch)
- Adding ?d={date} to the url acts as a permalink to that puzzle. You can see it when viewing previous day's puzzles.
- This also means if you're viewing a previous day's puzzle and refresh the page, you'll stay there.
- Navigate to the plain URL or click "Today" to go back to the default view that always shows the latest puzzle.
- Style tweak for buttons. Let me know what you think.
- Fixed the next day's headline and article being revealed if you use the date navigation in the middle of the completion animation. Now it should cancel the animation and just show the next day's puzzle.
I'm working on a few more things, large and small. Thanks for playing and let me know if you have any feedback or run into any issues!