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Thank you for Tiled Words which I play regularly! I introduced it to a couple of friends and now they compete every day for the best time to finish :-)

While you're here if I could make a small suggestion - the wording of the 'type of' questions was confusing to me until I got used to it; 'stop' is not really a type of 'watch' for example, so maybe you could find a different way to phrase those? Maybe there isn't a neater way to encapsulate the idea of 'is a prefix or suffix to', I don't know, but I found it difficult. Anyway kudos to you and your wife, it's a great game!

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To me a "stop watch" is a type of watch, that's straight forward. But there are other clues that rely on cultural references I'm not familiar with - and that is, I think, inevitable in this type of game. We all have different backgrounds and there's no universal shared understanding that would make every clue the same difficulty for everyone.

I saw someone on here recently say they like to do the puzzle without looking at the clues, and I've started doing that on and off too, it changes the game in an interesting way.

> To me a "stop watch" is a type of watch

Right but the answer in this case is not "stop watch" - the answer is just "stop". Name a type of watch: "stop".

> I saw someone on here recently say they like to do the puzzle without looking at the clues

Yeah I do that sometimes too, especially finishing off can be easier that way

Hey, that’s awesome, thanks for playing and sharing it!

Great feedback on the “type of” clues. I’ll need to noodle on that and see if there’s a clearer way to express it. Maybe I should just be doing blanks… e.g. for “sun” it could be “___ dress, ___day, or ___ flower”

How about "Goes with dress, day or flower"?

Ahh yeah, that's interesting thanks. I think the one difference is it's not clear if sun is meant to come before or after the word but maybe that's okay.

I'll think on this and experiment. Thanks

If the order is always the same maybe "goes before" or "goes after" would work too, but I like the ambiguity, and it's more .. I dunno, poetic?

Yea right now I do some clues before and some after.

Goes before/after is a good idea!

Yeah that would work! Or @progbits' suggestion of "goes with" works for me too.

In any case thanks for your consideration and thanks again for a great game!

Awesome, thanks for the feedback! Very helpful

IME crosswords traditionally say "Word before...". Also thanks for the game, I love it and was excited you used one of my submitted clues a few months ago.

Oh interesting. I’ll look for examples of that. If that’s an existing convention that may be the way to go.

Thanks for submitting clues! I always like reading through them to make the community puzzle

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