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by chrisco23 41 days ago
Where is this tutorial? I see nothing on the link nor on wordtrak.com that really explains how to play. I tried to play Daily and I had no idea. I tried dragging tiles onto squares to spell words, no tiles stuck anywhere, gave up.
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matt_kantor 41 days ago
> I tried dragging tiles onto squares to spell words, no tiles stuck anywhere, gave up.

I think the first move is a forced swap, though from a gameplay design perspective I'm not sure why. It took me a while to figure this out; it should definitely be made more obvious (assuming it's intentional).

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qrush 41 days ago
Good callout. My idea here was that you commonly get a garbage hand to start the game, and this helps you build a better first word.
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qrush 41 days ago
It's the ? button on each game, and on the new game screen. I'll make it more obvious. Also here: http://wordtrak.com/manual

I punted on dragging tiles since it felt janky...considering revisiting though.

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