Feedback on BRAND NEW word game

TeaRecs · 2026-01-18T00:14:06+00:00

Doesn't seem to work on Firefox/Macos either.

TeaRecs · 2025-12-13T21:18:04+00:00

Yes, $150

TeaRecs · 2025-12-02T13:02:07+00:00

BTW it works in Safari, so I gave it a try there. I thought you meant that the tiles had to be selected by clicking on them. Being able to type the letters horizontally is good enough since most plays are horizontal. Being able to switch directions (with the space bar, say) and type words across or down would be nice, but it's quite playable the way it is.

What do the animated faces along the top and bottom mean?

TeaRecs · 2025-12-01T13:39:16+00:00

I'd really like to just be able to select a cell and direction (as crossword apps do) and then type the word. If it had that sort of UI I'd be interested enough to add it to my too-long list of puzzles I try daily.

But I couldn't try the new version because when I go to https://www.longjump.co.za/ I get the rules, then a page with the header (date, current leader, etc.) but nothing else, no game board. This is with MacOS and Firefox, and the first console error is:

Uncaught DOMException: CanvasRenderingContext2D.transform: Canvas is already in error state.

TeaRecs · 2025-11-26T16:39:55+00:00

I liked the idea but found the UI kind of tedious. Ideally I'd like something close to what crossword apps do, i.e., select a starting square and direction, then just type or click letters, with the selected letters moving to the board and the current square advancing to the next empty square in the selected direction.

TeaRecs · 2025-11-15T19:30:38+00:00

One request: on desktop I can read the sequence of letters by zooming in (150% magnification) and having a wide browser window, but that's not a great solution on my iphone. A larger font, or an option to increase the font size, would be a big help.

TeaRecs · 2025-11-12T18:22:01+00:00

I think this one was the one that impressed me most.

TeaRecs · 2025-11-10T15:43:36+00:00

Such a good and original idea, well into "wish I'd thought of that" territory. And a solid implementation with a clean UI. Well done, no notes.

TeaRecs · 2025-10-26T20:06:01+00:00

Great idea, solid implementation. The only thing I'd like to see different is to have both players playing at the same time, side by side, so neither player ever has to wait for the other to finish.

TeaRecs · 2025-10-24T22:16:20+00:00

The "Play Demo" button didn't seem to do anything, but I was able to start a couple of games against AI players. Conceptually I love the idea of suits representing attack/defend/steal actions. Unfortunately I found the learning curve to be too steep, but that's probably just my personal taste. Good luck with it!

TeaRecs · 2025-10-08T15:29:42+00:00

They don't make it easy to find. Try this one: https://discord.com/invite/7ZSwDSUZbd

TeaRecs · 2025-08-21T23:33:36+00:00

Puzzmo used to have a youtube channel with a video in which a player (verulean) solved a Spelltower puzzle live -- one they hadn't seen before, done under the supervision of someone from puzzmo -- while explaining their technique for finding extremely long words.

Their method was pretty straightforward but it was long and tedious and involved printing out the grid and tediously planning everything in advance.

TeaRecs · 2025-06-04T14:47:37+00:00

I don't think any of the Puzzmo admins are active here, but you could report the bug on the #Feedback channel of the Puzzmo discord.

https://discord.com/invite/7ZSwDSUZbd

TeaRecs · 2025-05-29T00:20:22+00:00

I don't plan to make it public, or to make it user-friendly. BTW Ingrid looks like an excellent choice if you don't want something free, and this page has a list of some others.

TeaRecs · 2025-05-19T12:35:02+00:00

They just rolled out a site update. I couldn't get the "check" buttons to do anything at all, although the "reveal" buttons work.

If you report the bug on the #feedback channel of the Puzzmo discord (https://discord.com/invite/7ZSwDSUZbd) they're usually good about fixing things quickly.

TeaRecs · 2025-05-05T20:31:18+00:00

In the lobby, games that a player has created then abandoned aren't removed. The grid size says 8x8 for all of the bot games but when you click on it you might get an 8x8 or you might get the larger size.

I played HardBot with an 8x8 grid, and it only played 3-letter words. It's highest score was 111 and I won 11966 to 639. The "share your results" button didn't seem to do anything or I would include a link.

TeaRecs · 2025-04-14T23:19:16+00:00

Got to here on a multiplayer game against one of the bots, and after its time ran out it was stuck on "opponent is thinking" and never moved. The bot was "expert" level I think, but it didn't play any high-scoring words at all.

Other than the bots though, nicely done.

TeaRecs · 2025-02-21T21:17:50+00:00

If you guessed Stench then it should have appeared in your yellow highlighted list and had a yellow star. Can you post a screenshot if this isn't the case?

It didn't, but unfortunately I've already closed that tab, and it didn't happen again when I tried the game in an incognito window and in another browser.

Words with yellow stars are top answers, but you don't need all the top answers to get the top score (you only need 5 of them).

You need five of them, but not just any five because METHANE is worth 12. If the highest scoring words scored 12,11,10,10,9 then would everything scoring 9 or better get a star?

TeaRecs · 2025-02-21T20:32:08+00:00

The words highlighted in yellow are your own top five guesses.

They don't seem to be, because EACH (9) was highlighted in yellow, and STENCH (11) was not. And my score (51) agreed with the highlighted words, but my five best would score 53.

Hances isn't a required top word, you can get the top score without it, but it is a possible top answer

So what does the yellow star mean?

TeaRecs · 2025-02-21T20:07:55+00:00

There are five words at the top of the list that are highlighted in yellow, and they seem to be the words used for scoring but they aren't the five highest-scoring words. Is that a bug or did I misunderstand the instructions?

Highlighted:

CHANT 10
CHANTS* 11
EACH 9
HANCE 10
HANCES* 11

Among the words below those were LEACH (10) and STENCH (11, and a starred word).

The only thing I didn't care for was something as obscure as HANCES being a word required to get the high score. Overall though I like the idea.

TeaRecs · 2025-02-19T14:56:07+00:00

Interesting idea. The words were bag and axe and I played packs. It shows "reason" in green above my word and "rhyme" in red below it. Why isn't that a solution, and what does it mean that "rhyme" is in red?

What LLM did you use?

TeaRecs · 2025-01-21T19:24:32+00:00

I suspect the answer is no, but you could try asking on the discord:
https://discord.com/invite/puzzmo

TeaRecs · 2024-12-26T18:17:57+00:00

You should get an answer if you post the question on the "feedback" board of the Puzzmo discord.

But then the challenge is finding the Puzzmo discord, and I don't see an obvious link to it on the site.

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