Thanks for playing! After voting ends, I’m thinking of pre-solving at least one or two characters (or, some proportional number, based on headline length) to make it a bit easier, as your experience is similar to mine where I just start out guessing. Especially for the “daily” article which, for more technical reasons than anything, don’t really have a “category” as it’s just pulling from the top news feed. Good feedback (and on having a dark theme too, hm I should consider this…)!
The game indeed saves your performance in terms of swaps and time, I just didn’t have time to display it anywhere. Eventually, hoping to create a past puzzles view so you can view how you did, open those corresponding news articles. Also planning to create a leaderboard view for the “daily puzzle” and a calendar view to show both your progress over time vs (top? average? median?) players.