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by kaybe 5181 days ago
The English language really has a delightful amount of three-letter words. I don't know all of them, but guessing gives me a high chance it actually exists.

One issue: Sometimes I want to start with some letter, but the game only marks the second letter, rendering the selection incorrect. Might be due to my computer being busy with some simulations though.

2 comments

If you're typing and hit the enter key it should start fresh so the first letter will be accepted.

I think what's happening is you're typing in a few letters of one word, then moving on to the next word with a new letter that's not adjacent to the previous ones. Typing a letter that's not adjacent causes the word to fail, and that letter won't be part of the next word. So if we had a 3x3 board

A B C D E F G H I

And I typed ABC GHI, it would only count HI since G was part of the failing word ABCG.

This is how it's supposed to work, but it can get a little trippy some times. If what I explained is not what's happening, and it's just not picking up the first letter in a normal case, let me know!

It didn't keep my formatting for the letters, but you can imagine a 3x3 board with those letters ;)
Ah, well I'll take a look then because that shouldn't be happening
I'm using the mouse.
Pushed a fix for that, let me know if it did the trick!
Seems to be better. Ah! The game is very addicting.
Could you please clarify on that issue? So it ignores the first letter and just skips to the second one? Thanks for playing the game!
Basically yes. It feels like lag. I click on the first letter and drag, but only a later letter (not neccessarily the first, sometimes also the second) gets highlighted. The simulation has ended now, so apparently it wasn't due to my CPU being maxed out.