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Thanks for sharing this.",{"id":105,"by":106,"text":107},"30260990","f00zz","Great execution, love the juicy animations!",{"value":109,"source":94,"evidence":110},"Fresh take distinct from Wordle",[111,115],{"id":112,"by":113,"text":114},"30259079","NKosmatos","Nice execution, a variation of Wordle but different enough so as to not be taken as a clone :-) Quick feedback, why does the round timer inside the yellow star starts decreasing…",{"id":116,"by":117,"text":118},"30258704","alecst","Cool, fun, inventive, challenging. Might enjoy it even more than Wordle. It took a second for it to load on my mac -- I thought maybe it was busted. Maybe page load speed is…",[120,135,150,165],{"value":121,"source":94,"evidence":122},"Timer adds stress",[123,127,131],{"id":124,"by":125,"text":126},"30258735","msoad","I really like the execution on this. One piece of feedback is that the timer gave me anxiety and I closed it. I do puzzles to phase out from stress not to challenge myself in a…",{"id":128,"by":129,"text":130},"30259205","huhtenberg","I really don't like that it's timed.",{"id":132,"by":133,"text":134},"30259701","yhoneycomb","This game is simultaneously more stressful, less challenging, and less fun than wordle. I especially hate the timer",{"value":136,"source":94,"evidence":137},"Animations too slow or excessive",[138,142,146],{"id":139,"by":140,"text":141},"30260549","andjd","I know that you're not copying the wordle vibe necessarily, but the animations seem too over the top to me. They're pushing into candy crush territory, and to me that a strong…",{"id":143,"by":144,"text":145},"30261715","doodpants","I like it! But my one criticism is that it wastes too much time on animation, especially when transitioning from one round to the next. I'm anxious to get started, but have to…",{"id":147,"by":148,"text":149},"30258764","anentropic","Bug: if you click the next letter while the 'victory' animation for the previous letter is still playing, it replaces the previous correct letter with the new one you clicked,…",{"value":151,"source":94,"evidence":152},"Only one accepted solution when several are valid",[153,157,161],{"id":154,"by":155,"text":156},"30262447","joeframbach","This isn't a logic game, this is a game of \"guess what word I'm thinking of\". ``` - - G G Y - E E - S - - - - Y O P U B F K L L ``` Possible solutions: ``` b u G G Y p E E k S f…",{"id":158,"by":159,"text":160},"30260238","layer8","The game seems to expect a particular solution even when there are multiple possibilities of forming correct words. For example, I tried \"peeks\" & \"bully\" but the game only…",{"id":162,"by":163,"text":164},"30258961","iainmerrick","I agree... 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