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wilf.live

30 pointswolfred18 comments

How to play:

1. You're given a set of letters (such as "ZXCVBNM")

2. Come up with two words that use all the letters (like "convex zombie")

3. The shorter the words, the better!

Cute game! A way to sign up without a google account would be nice, but since it's playable without it, that's good enough for me for now.

Nice! Fun game and works well :)

- I don’t think the space bar again to submit is super obvious.

- It’d be nice if it showed the numeric score at the end too, not just in the leaderboard. It’s also not obvious how the score is calculated (I think it’s the length of both words?)

- Would also be nice to show the score for the reveal words, so I can see how close I was to the best score

- If you log in it resets the board, maybe you could put it in localstorage before redirecting?

I completed the puzzle and it said “Good”. Then I looked at the scoreboard and other people got numerical scores? And I didn’t?

your score is the length of your two words plus the space

You shouldn’t force people to create an account. Pretty much all other xxxle games are login-free.

I was able to play without an account, when did it force you to create one?

Before it did.

A bit surprised that TILTH is not in the acceptable word list.

Ah, so I'm not the only one!

Could make it with 2 common words for 11. But a second attempt used archaic ones.

It's a bit limited though

Nor was "hilted", so I came back here to complain about the word list. :-)

It says “framer” is not in the word list, but it most certainly is a word, at least according to the New Oxford American Dictionary.

Looks like the word list in this game is rather thin. Some other that are absent from it: Reframe, Merman, Mummer, Rimmer, Rummer

(English is not my first language)

Let's add 'Murmurer' to that list

I liked it and got a 7 space 4.

Is this the max score? How can I know? It wants me to login for a reveal… which is unfortunately where I bounced. Maybe I would sign up after a fews days if I got hooked because I found it really annoying when I lost my wordle streak.

What if you find one word that covers all the letters, like "highlighted"?

There are two Ts in the prompt. Choose a long second word with a T in it.

Neat. Remove the need to log in and use the regular keyboard, please.

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