[asvitkine]

When you guess a vowel that's repeated in the answer, it counts all the occurrences.

[Kiro]

That makes no sense. Can someone please just tell me the word?

[swores]

Answer to the first one, written on pastebin to avoid anyone seeing it as a spoiler:

https://pastebin.com/A7RQjNdd

[stevage]

It does make sense. It's just counter intuitive and not the way most puzzle games work.

It makes it quite hard. I'm not sure if it's a good hard or a bad hard yet.

[matryer]

I think you're right - I've updated the rules - give it a go and let me know. Thanks for the feedback.