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I need to get better at not spinning my wheels when I hit a flagrantly non-phonetic word like "asphalt." Losing on level 15 is a real bummer! I also agree that skipping over the given letters when you're typing out the word is extremely awkward, though there might not be a good solution.
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Great game! And that person that hadn't heard of boyish and garish: I'm an non-native speaker too but those are pretty common words!
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Oh, and a general hint to other players:
The game tries it's hardest to be obscure and a pain in the dick. If you see a rare letter, like an X, a Z, or a Q, you can be 99% certain that letter will be in the word you are looking for. So if you see that in the pool, try and work it in. It cuts down on the number of possible words, though not always helpfully.
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A couple things:
1) You should probably make it so the game will let you type the given letter. It's constantly screwing me up to have to type "Time" as "ime" or "Tie".
2) Starting with the levels that give you a letter is actually harder than a level where you receive no letters. You can guess any word of the available letters (to see which are right/wrong) on the no letter levels, but only a very small number of words with the given letters, so you get less information.
3)The Hint letters should probably end up as Given letters, rather than being able to overwrite them. I guess that puts you kind of in the same boat as above though, if someone is trying to hint from zero letters to one. But at least at that point, they're opting in. The fact that hint letters are overwritable while given letters aren't makes it even more wonky when you're entering partial words, as mentioned in #1.
Not a bad game, just needs the edges smoothed out.
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Please. Paua is totally a word and I should be allowed to guess it. I suck at the ones where they give you a letter because I can think of hardly anything to guess. I agree with wisygig.
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@labridi: Although you can submit practically any English word, all the Mystery Words you need to solve are handpicked and shouldn't include any distinctly British or American words. Some words, like 'cipher/cypher', may have alternative spellings though. @wisygig: The game uses ENABLE wordlist to validate the words player submits, but the Mystery Words are handpicked (about 5,000 of them). @GameKultist: We salute you! ;)
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Problem--you can't clear certain letters, only the last letter or all of them; this makes for slower guessing.
As for the vocabulary, some of the accepted words are "British". The game accepted punty, cosher and cipher. None of these are common in "American" English. That isn't a criticism, but it does make it more difficult for some of us.
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Nice game, however, the levels are in the wrong order. Since you have to submit an actual word, having a letter revealed actually limits the amount of information you can obtain, at least for a human player. As an aside, it'd be nice to know what word list the developers are using.
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Good news everyone! The mystery word dictionary is now updated. No more old English or byzantine vocabulary to suffer. @Kyriva: use the "X"-button on top left corner to pause the game at any time.
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I love word games but it uses such byzantine vocabulary it's a bit unreasonable to expect anyone to get through it without guessing.
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Good game, it would be better with a break between levels though. An in level pause would be silly, but letting players choose when to start the next level (don't show them the letters yet) would be good.
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Some of the words seem to be Middle English according to online dictionaries. Shouldn't all the words be modern english? After all, nobody says "betwixt" any more...
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at later levels the time limit is too short in my opinion, making us need to just ramble in words instead of actually deducing them with the hints given. I like to try and think of the possibilities with the given options, but as you give me ni time for that it becomes more luckbased now, pity.
btw, nonnativespeaker here, and i enjoy it
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Hi all, thanks for the feedback! We'll work on the dictionary. However, a big part of the wordspecting challenge is (and will be) figuring out some of the more obscure mystery words just by narrowing down the possible letters. Think of it like cracking a code, where the meaning of the word is irrelevant.
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Woot, another awesome word game, as usual withnew word games like this, the dictionary needs to be edited. For you non-native english speakers who complain that it is to hard for you, DON'T PLAY IT! But for the love of God, don't down-rate it because of that. This is the reason so many good word games have such crappy ratings!
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Great game, but some of the words are really ridiculous (and this is coming from a person in america :P).
Anyways to anyone complaining that it's hard for non native people to play.. well that's the nature of a word game. You can't rate a game lowly because the game sticks to one language, as it should
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You might want to go through some of the words again. Recently, the work I had to guess was "kikes", which is an anti-semetic slur. So, yeah...
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giving you letters in the middle or end of the word makes this extremely difficult even for a native english speaker.
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wtf is a "krona"?! *checks*
a silver and cupronickel coin and monetary unit of Sweden, equal to 100 öre. Abbreviation: Kr., kr.
How was I ever supposed to be able to guess that? There aren't even english words that start with "K"!
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Kinda hard for non-navite english speakers. (We Dutch also recognize 'lingo' in this game)
Add support for other languages?