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Transportation was really fun; I thought a long time and got it in 1, and I felt I had a grasp on…",{"id":61,"by":58,"text":62},"38821443","Played it again. Got the transportation category again in 1 after another long and satisfying think. So that was really fun once again. I tried gathering info on the beatles…",{"value":64,"source":54,"evidence":65},"Neat concept with interesting vowel placement feedback",[66,70],{"id":67,"by":68,"text":69},"38811503","ericrallen","It’s interesting how much the placement of vowels can help you imagine the shape of the word. One small point of feedback. It wasn’t clear that you were expected to enter a space…",{"id":71,"by":72,"text":73},"38811477","hayksaakian","this is neat the 3 letter challenge didn't really show off the game though I just guessed 3 possible words and happened to be correct on my 3rd guess",[75,98,113,120,130],{"value":76,"source":54,"evidence":77},"Scoring counts repeated vowels confusingly, reporting matches not in the answer",[78,82,86,90,94],{"id":79,"by":80,"text":81},"38811885","jprete","My puzzle word has four vowels. My two guesses each four vowels, but not the same four (e.g. \"AAIO\" and \"AEIO\"), and I got four vowel matches for each guess. I know how that…",{"id":83,"by":84,"text":85},"38812420","gojomo","Was eager to try but found it buggy - or at least, confusingly arcane in how guesses are scored. Today's 'transportation' puzzle had 4 consonants & 4 vowels. I got to a guess…",{"id":87,"by":88,"text":89},"38812682","wavemode","Game is buggy, as others have mentioned. Either that or the scoring makes no sense. Why did it say I had 4 vowels correct, if my guess contained 4 vowels and one of them wasn't…",{"id":91,"by":92,"text":93},"38812224","smcin","It's pretty good. Scoring a single letter N times if it occurs N times in the target word, instead of just once, is misleading.",{"id":95,"by":96,"text":97},"38814233","Kiro","If the target word contains two E and my guess only contains one E it should say 1 vowel correct, not 2. Isn't that obvious? What am I missing? I presume you made it this way for…",{"value":99,"source":54,"evidence":100},"Feedback not actionable; gameplay feels tedious and unfun without letter position clues",[101,105,109],{"id":102,"by":103,"text":104},"38812186","pjm331","If the feedback is supposed to be helpful in narrowing down future guesses - I didn’t find it to be. If it’s just for scoring attempts then it’s working great. Would prefer to…",{"id":106,"by":107,"text":108},"38814629","stevage","After playing through to step 3, but not knowing any king's of Leon songs, I have to say: this game is not fun for me. I have played many daily games and like most of them. What…",{"id":110,"by":111,"text":112},"38814307","eps","Great idea, but I find gameplay to be a bit too tedious to be enjoyable. In this aspect Wordle got it right with the color cues, but here I don't think it's even possible to…",{"value":114,"source":54,"evidence":115},"Clue placement and design unclear; 'Transportation' hard to notice",[116],{"id":117,"by":118,"text":119},"38813175","bonestamp2","I'm probably dumb, but I didn't realize \"Transportation\" was a clue until I looked at the network traffic and saw it labeled as such in one of the responses. In fact, I didn't…",{"value":121,"source":54,"evidence":122},"Puzzles too hard; too many guesses per step",[123,126],{"id":124,"by":107,"text":125},"38814529","I found this pretty hard. Took 23 guesses to solve step 1. At that stage, I expected to have a result I could share with people. Just being taken to a step 2 was demoralising.…",{"id":127,"by":128,"text":129},"38814503","nmeofthestate","The first one took me 17 guesses, writing nonsense words to count each letter in the answer. The other two I managed in 1.",{"value":131,"source":54,"evidence":132},"Unclear handling of Y as vowel or consonant",[133,137],{"id":134,"by":135,"text":136},"38812177","gnicholas","Is 'Y' treated as a consonant or a vowel? Does it depend on the word (\"sky\" versus \"yuck\")?",{"id":138,"by":139,"text":140},"38814157","froddd","For what it’s worth, other languages than English may consider Y a vowel. French does, for instance. In my opinion this actually makes more sense.",[142,153,157,164],{"value":143,"source":54,"evidence":144},"Document scoring and vowel rules in How to Play",[145,149,150],{"id":146,"by":147,"text":148},"38812000","kaiken1987","Yeah that really messed with me OOA and OAA shouldn't count the same imo, but at bare minimum if it's a feature not a bug it should be noted in the How to Play",{"id":134,"by":135,"text":136},{"id":151,"by":107,"text":152},"38814554","IMHO almost every game I have ever played in which there is a vowel\u002Fconsonant distinction begins immediately by telling you how Y is handled.",{"value":154,"source":54,"evidence":155},"Show which letters are correct even without position",[156],{"id":102,"by":103,"text":104},{"value":158,"source":54,"evidence":159},"Accept slashes in place of spaces",[160,163],{"id":161,"by":118,"text":162},"38816904","I second this. I typed in the slashes and I had the correct answer, but it didn't accept it until I swapped out the slashes for spaces. I thought the rule was that we were…",{"id":67,"by":68,"text":69},{"value":165,"source":54,"evidence":166},"Narrow categories to things everyone knows",[167],{"id":61,"by":58,"text":62},[169,173],{"value":170,"source":54,"evidence":171},"Is Y treated as a vowel or consonant?",[172],{"id":134,"by":135,"text":136},{"value":174,"source":54,"evidence":175},"When does the new daily game release?",[176],{"id":177,"by":178,"text":179},"38818006","MrZander","When does the new game release? It is almost noon in California and it is still on the previous days game",[181,185,192],{"value":182,"source":54,"evidence":183},"Wordle",[184],{"id":110,"by":111,"text":112},{"value":186,"source":54,"evidence":187},"Wordiply",[188],{"id":189,"by":190,"text":191},"38813733","zabzonk","people might also be interested in https:\u002F\u002Fwww.wordiply.com\u002F",{"value":193,"source":54,"evidence":194},"guessthe.game",[195],{"id":196,"by":197,"text":198},"38812880","jboogie77","I’ll have to add this to my list. currently do the Wordle, guessthe.game, guess the audio, guess the book, and waffle.",{"comments":200,"answered":33,"key":201},12,[202,205,208],{"id":203,"text":204},"38817129","Thanks so much for this feedback. I think you're right. I've updated the game, and I think it makes more sense now. Would somebody be able to try it out for me and let me know?…",{"id":206,"text":207},"38817149","I think you're right - I've updated the rules - give it a go and let me know. Thanks for the feedback.",{"id":209,"text":210},"38817141","Thanks so much for this feedback. I think you're right. I've updated the game, and I think it makes more sense now. 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