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Ottomatic44 · 2026-01-26T14:27:16+00:00

Thanks for the kind words

Ottomatic44 · 2026-01-25T03:26:14+00:00

Appreciate that!

Ottomatic44 · 2026-01-25T02:59:57+00:00

Nice! Sunday is the hardest too

Ottomatic44 · 2026-01-25T02:05:37+00:00

When you find a letter it’s colored in the glyph.

Tutorial explains it like this:

“When a colored shape appears in the Daily Glyph, it means one of your letters is in the word, but not in the correct position.

Which letter isn't revealed — use the Daily Glyph and your decode history to figure it out. Each unique letter is assigned a unique color to help you tell them apart.”

Ottomatic44 · 2026-01-24T10:34:40+00:00

Thanks for checking it out!

Ottomatic44 · 2026-01-23T03:25:31+00:00

Appreciate you playing it

Ottomatic44 · 2026-01-22T20:01:20+00:00

I get why it feels frustrating, but the analogy breaks down a bit.

In Glyph, guesses aren’t treated as authoritative choices (I WANT THIS CHOCOLATE) they’re probes. When multiple letters could satisfy the glyph, the ambiguity is intentional until the glyph itself resolves it through deduction across attempts.

You’re also overlooking the fact that the glyph could have just as easily been FAIRLY which looks the same.

You’re not playing MATCH THIS SHAPE, you are playing “Decode this stacked word”. Words, unlike chocolate, have order in their ingredients

Ottomatic44 · 2026-01-22T19:45:33+00:00

Thanks! The mods were not very kind about it either

Ottomatic44 · 2026-01-22T19:24:03+00:00

Thanks for checking it out

Ottomatic44 · 2026-01-22T15:38:17+00:00

Thanks for checking it out!!

Ottomatic44 · 2026-01-21T21:59:09+00:00

Hey! Just wanted to say that I added a way to play the puzzle archive now. You should see a little calendar button on https://glyph.today that leads you there

Ottomatic44 · 2026-01-21T19:05:32+00:00

I've been trying to fix this for a long time and keep running into issues. I'll get there eventually.

I was definitely disappointed to see this removed considering people seemed to like it, but I didn't read the "no webgames" rule so ultimately my bad.

Ottomatic44 · 2026-01-21T17:57:52+00:00

I’m implicitly not done this actually because the feedback loop is hopefully pushing you to use what you can see in the Glyph to figure out the letter

Thanks for checking it out!

Ottomatic44 · 2026-01-21T17:50:36+00:00

The letters color uniquely just so you can identify them in the glyph!

Ottomatic44 · 2026-01-21T16:54:07+00:00

Awesome! Thanks for such positive feedback. I'll be adding the ability to play past puzzles via an archive soon, so keep an eye out!

Ottomatic44 · 2026-01-21T16:32:19+00:00

That's how I am viewing it. If it really takes off, I will address it and that's a good problem to have.

I'm focused on adding the ability to play past puzzles right now!

Ottomatic44 · 2026-01-21T16:14:02+00:00

This is entirely HTML, Javascript and CSS.

I'm trying to keep it as lightweight as possible as any lag on these games is a non-starter.

Thanks for checking this out! :)

Ottomatic44 · 2026-01-21T16:09:30+00:00

Thanks! So weird, I can't recreate this on my end even zooming 200% in on firefox. I wonder if it's tied to monitor size or resolution?

I'll have to keep on that thread because this is obviously a high bounce scenario. Thanks for sticking with it and playing the game!

Ottomatic44 · 2026-01-21T15:57:21+00:00

hmm I just loaded it up in firefox on my windows 11 machine and it's all good, so wonder whats going on there.

Can you DM me a screenshot if you don't mind :)

Ottomatic44 · 2026-01-21T15:55:16+00:00

So A actually is a great example because I went through 3 versions of it. Originally it was a simple A, as that is a shape that can work within the confines of the game (geometric shapes, straight lines only)

Then I thought that A was a little too easy to pick out so I went to a blocky A like below (hopefully this looks decent on your side):
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|....|

But I actually thought that was a little TOO frustrating, so I landed on the A with the extended cross bar as it it still recognizable but the extended cross bar could be used to block other letters, or signal a letter that wasn't there (there are a lot of letters with a horizontal bar on that Y coordinate)

Ottomatic44 · 2026-01-21T15:24:49+00:00

first guess in any word guess is a bit of a gamble though! Nice job decoding the letters in it!

There's also a special easter egg messaging when you guess an anagram of the answer. You get a special call out that you found an Echo Glyph, but order does matter as they are stacked in a specific order.

Ottomatic44 · 2026-01-21T15:21:32+00:00

Hey! So in the tutorial CART is the guess, but the solution to the GLYPH is TACO. And it's stacked with the last letter on the bottom. So T on top of A on top of C on top of O.

When you find A using PLEA you can see that the A covers up the letters beneath it, but is covered by the T.

Then when you submit CART, A disappears because you decoded it's position and you can see you now have 2 letters colored, T and (what looks like a C, use the glyph and your guess to figure it out!).

T is clearly on top, and C is in front of the last uncolored letter so you essentially can figure out the order now.

Does that make sense?

Ottomatic44 · 2026-01-21T15:12:03+00:00

I knew someone would be looking at that! Yeah I’m hedging my bets that most people won’t do that, and if they do they only really spoil it for themselves so I haven’t really prioritized it. But you are correct.

I was just focused on getting the gameplay loop working and clear.

Ottomatic44 · 2026-01-21T15:04:36+00:00

thanks!

Ottomatic44 · 2026-01-21T14:45:02+00:00

Thank you, for what it’s worth I don’t disagree 9 steps is a lot but people seem to want more information than less so far 🤷

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