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It took me a second to realize "has the answer E" meant "as the answer" not "as an option," but I think that's a glitch in my brain, not the puzzle.

I did accidentally pull down too hard on my screen when I was trying to scroll up, which accidentally refreshed and deleted all my answers on all difficulties, not even just the one I was working on/hadn't solved yet, so that's less than ideal. I almost had level 4 done, but no way I wanted to go back and redo it all!

I'd also love an "answer lock" button, and/or floating undo/redo buttons, because sometimes to take the next step, I need to put in an answer and game out how the rest of the puzzle comes together with that answer, and it would help to be able to undo back to that point, not just try to count my steps and keep scrolling down to the undo button for more of them. I'm not likely to get out a piece of paper or pop open a notepad app to game it out that way.

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Sorry about the pull to refresh glitch! Completely forgot to disable that. Will fix ASAP.

Thanks for the other feedback!

Came here to say the same thing. I think the wording could be a little better.

Thanks for the feedback! I'd appreciate hearing how you (or the parent) think the wording could be improved. English isn't my native language, so suggestions are very helpful.

Maybe "Which question is solved by E?" or "How many questions are solved by E?" - another way would be "Which question has E as its correct answer? // Which question is answered by E?" or "How many questions are answered by E?"

I personally like the solved wording.

Also another vote for clearer colors about possibility state - for example, the cells are marked green if that specific answer is internally consistent, but it can still be an incorrect solution overall, which means you did not get the correct answer whatsoever.

I think people (myself included) have been trained to think green = good, meaning that answer is correct and shouldn't be moved, you found that one, now work on the others - so an intermediary color as mentioned, like yellow, meaning 'yep that's plausible but not necessarily right' would be a good fit there.

I would go with, "Which question has E as its answer?" or "the answer" instead of "an answer" would fix it for me.

Similarly, "How many questions have E for the answer?"

I think it also threw me because we have a trick question in English, "How many months have 28 days?"

All the months have 28 days, but people usually answer 1, so for those of us who are used to approaching questions, especially logic questions, as literally a as possible, all the questions have the answer E. It's just not the right answer. "How many questions have E as the answer?" would clear that up for me.

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