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by jamesdhutton 442 days ago
It was fun. Couple of suggestions:

- It gave me “TCAAN” which stumped me. Afterwards I pasted it into the Internet Anagram Server, which failed to find any acronyms for it. So I can say with some confidence I don’t think it’s a valid word. Suggest making sure you’re using a dictionary similar to Wordle’s one.

- The game should reveal the solution at the end if the player fails to guess any words.

3 comments

The game ought to make it explicit that proper names are allowed.

But, personally, I would remove proper names, to make it more like most other word games (wordle, spelling bee, jumble, etc.). Crosswords do have proper names, but they've got the clue context to go with them.

Catan! (of settling fame)
Ahhh. Proper noun though right? I would suggest excluding proper nouns.
Yeah, it was a bit strange but it did fit the theme of board games which was a solid hint.
Came here to say exactly this. I let the timer expire and was expecting to be able to see the answer rather than resort to an anagram solver site...