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Drop letters into place to unscramble today's magical headline. ✨ New puzzle and story daily! · By
Just found this game and binged it, what an absolute gem! I found the tutorial pretty intuitive and I adore the worldbuilding you've been doing, I'm looking forward to this becoming a tiny, bright spot in my daily routine. ☺️ If I may make a suggestion—I would consider also adding a second link in the tutorial window to the very first puzzle, so it can be picked immediately by those who want to experience the whole thing chronologically. Though it's not a big deal at all, as it's just a couple of clicks away via the archive.
Thanks! That's a good idea. I'm pushing the idea of solving the current week because I want people to be aware you don't have to solve the whole archive... but totally, if it were me I would want to start from the beginning too. I just added a "Go to start" button to the bottom of the tutorial popup.
Absolutely adore this game and I just cannot wait for the next issue! Got stumped by the Dec. 9 puzzle which contained a word I had never seen and the English word database I happen to have on my pc did not contain it either but that just made me appreciate it so much more :D
Anyway, I found out just today that you can type in letters and remove them using backspace. I believe that shaved of good half a minute from my time on today's puzzle :D. A suggestion I would have, though, is that pressing the Del key could move the cursor to the right instead of to the left, since that is how it functions in normal text.
Thank you! Yeah, I've been doing my best to make the How to Play screen clear so people find out that you can type. 😄 Good idea about Delete, I just updated it, so let me know what you think.
I'm also happy to add other keyboard shortcuts (Tab to jump words??) if people have some they would like to use that aren't currently working.
this game looks really cool so far, but i had an issue in the december 16th puzzle where the word "where" was split across two lines with no indication that it was one word, making it look like two separate invalid words, "whe" and "re". this really messed me up and i was stuck on the puzzle for WAY longer than is probably intended. implementing some visual cue that a word is broken across two lines would probably be a good idea?
Hey, thanks for playing! I was hoping that the tutorial would introduce that words can wrap. Curious if you clicked How to Play and if you solved the whole tutorial puzzle? (Not judging, just gathering info on how people approach it.) Would a line like "Words can wrap from one line to the next" in How to Play help?
If it's a recurring issue I can look at adding an indicator, but I was hoping that once players get used to keeping an eye out for it, it's just one facet of the challenge of the puzzle. Definitely looking for more feedback on this from you or anyone reading this, thanks!
Just started to binge this game, and I love it so much!! It's such a fun treat to just sit down and exercise some good old wordplay skills. One suggestion that I have is maybe adding some sort of indicator in the tutorial area to pay attention to names and places; it might just be my lack of critical thinking but sometimes I just couldn't solve a puzzle because I didn't realize that the names from previous articles could appear within headlines.
Hi! I absolutely am addicted to this game and storytelling. It's not my usual type of game but I ended up having a lot of fun for some reason ;w;
If I can give a suggestion, I do wish that I could preview past Daily Spell articles while I'm doing the current headline. I got so lost during the Convention because I completely forgot people's names ;w;. I think it would make it easier (and lean into the whole puzzle-solving portion!) if there was a way to preview older/previous articles
You can! It doesn’t clear the current puzzle if you change to a previous day, go to the archive, etc. (The clock does keep running - pausing it is on my todo list.)
I wonder how I can make that clear..? I don’t want people to feel frustrated thinking they can’t see previous articles. I’ll at least add a note to How to Play.
Oh I didn't know that! I think adding a note on the How to Play would help a lot. I think the words "preview archive" instead of "archive" would make the player understand they won't lose their progress, but I can see how that also looks really cluttered ;w;. If you want, you can also add in a small note on the bottom that says "Forgot a name? Click the archive!" or something along those lines, since there's a lot of free space at the bottom
Hm, yeah. Added a note to How to Play and I'll think about other options. It's the kind of thing where once you know it, you don't need a reminder every time. Probably a more active tutorialization of the first couple puzzles could help, since it could point that out in context, but that's a larger change. Or making a clearer pause state, which you could use to go check out other puzzles... I'll keep pondering. Thanks for the feedback!
Probably! Like a Level 0. It would be really cool if the How To was formatted the same way the other Daily Spell articles are. That way it kind of encourages the player to think "hm, if I can see the tutorial article without messing up my progress, maybe I can do the same for actual articles?" (Especially if they're the type to skim the How To Play stuff on most games lmao.)
ohohohohhohhhhhoooooooo!! new awesome game I'm gonna binge then be sad when its over! loving it so far, discovered it a few days ago! at one point in the first set of puzzles I got frustrated because it kept flagging as wrong when the sentence made sense, but then I realized I switched Smythe and Argent's names, because they are the same length and directly overlapped. mostly just a skill issue on my part, though. absolutely INCREDIBLE game!!
editing to add, I started playing riiight before you added the word highlighting thing, so I got realllllyyyy confused by the whole words-wrapping-to-next-line-thing. Glad you pretty much solved that problem! the purple highlight thing is incredibly helpful!