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Really cool entry. The fact that it takes real headlines directly from the internet means it is basically infinite, which is great for this type of game. From a game design perspective I'm a little divided, like, it's just scramble except you have the computer to tell you when you put a letter in its place, which allows you to scramble literally all the letters, forcing us to start each puzzle by trying out blind guesses before we can actually deduce anything, which leaves a lot to luck at the start. I don't know, maybe I'm dumb and if you read the news a lot you can guess a word by category and number of letters alone? I'm pretty sure experience helps with that blind luck at the beginning.

I also like the visuals, you took some effort to make it look like old school newspaper, that's very nice (although I'm not gonna lie I would love a dark theme, hahaha). You also counted the time and swaps it took to solve each puzzle, which kinda implied that you kept our performance somewhere, but I couldn't find it anywhere. Good job, very cool take on the theme and scramble overall.

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Thanks for playing! After voting ends, I’m thinking of pre-solving at least one or two characters (or, some proportional number, based on headline length) to make it a bit easier, as your experience is similar to mine where I just start out guessing. Especially for the “daily” article which, for more technical reasons than anything, don’t really have a “category” as it’s just pulling from the top news feed. Good feedback (and on having a dark theme too, hm I should consider this…)!

The game indeed saves your performance in terms of swaps and time, I just didn’t have time to display it anywhere. Eventually, hoping to create a past puzzles view so you can view how you did, open those corresponding news articles. Also planning to create a leaderboard view for the “daily puzzle” and a calendar view to show both your progress over time vs (top? average? median?) players.