I gave up on the puzzle because it was too hard for my end of the week brain.

But, a couple of UX suggestions:

a) It shouldn't be possible to drop tiles on the grid outside of the word boundaries

b) Dropping one tile on another should swap their positions.

With both of these implemented, it'd make it easier to move all of the letters onto the grid and then try different options, without too much fiddling.

I played the game again today and easily found a solution. It told me I found an alternate solution. It'd be nice to be able to see the official solution.

Pretty fun and challenging! That Q really had me stumped for a bit. May I suggest removing the audio all together or making it mute by default? It was a bit startling. Otherwise, good stuff!

You did a great job, the game is very polished .. (the misspelling feature!). The cross word constraint makes it a bit easier than the regular Jumble.

I wish there could be some sort of "reveal hint" button for each sector or something, similar to how a crossword puzzle has clues (With some sort of 'points' penalty or something for using a hint). I couldn't figure out any of the words on my first attempt. But it seems like a neat game overall.

Love the game and really like that any valid solution works. Would certainly pay a nominal fee for the archives or a way to randomly generate a puzzle w/ seed so my wife and I can play the same puzzle together. Thanks for sharing!

I really enjoyed your game during the last 4 days and i'm definitly willing to pay a small fee for archive access and gratitude.

I absolutely love the sound effects and music. Made me smile. I look forward to more puzzles :)

One thing I'd say is that dragging from the edge of the screen makes it really easy to accidentally trigger the back gesture on my phone.

I played the second game, and your dictionary might need to be adjusted. Asse is certainly not a word.

Pretty fun game you got here though. I would like a retry capability so I can try to find another (read: the real) solution.

What does it mean when the letters become “straight”? I thought it meant they were in the correct spot but it was for what seem impossible letter combinations.

They also seem to become straightened out when not on the bounding boxes, and they seem to be straightened out even when not making real words. But also even when making real words they sometimes show as “broken”.

I see that it references multiple solutions but I’m still confused how that tracks.

EDIT: I ended up “solving” the puzzle but one of the words isn’t a real word, not even in a scrabble dictionary.

This is a fun game, nicely put together! I wished for a button to clear the board while I was playing. I love the menu UI. I think it cleverly parallels the game.

I like it, will play again. It felt challenging but not impossible.

Will there be consideration for other languages in the future?

I agree with the other commentor's suggestions on the UI.

I'm not sure PYRUS should be in the word list, and fairly sure YACK shouldn't; but also it'd be nice to avoid generating puzzles with multiple legal solutions. Look up the old HN thread on HueWords for some discussion of Wordle-style "valid" versus "target" word lists and their applicability to this sort of puzzle-game design.

I wondered if you were working to assure there is only one solution; from today's puzzle I see not, since I found "another."

It would be great to be able to start over.

It would be great to keep track of how many distinct solutions you have found.

It would be great to know how many solutions there are.

Hey what'd you use for your drag-n-drop? It works well, I'd like to use it for something too. Perusing your code, it looks like you wrote it from scratch actually? Really minimalistic, I'm impressed it works this well.

2:12 27 moves, my first guesses for words were correct. The Q was the key for me. Fun game!

Nice! It was hard, and I really liked the break-in (spoilers) with the Q and U.

That's really fun. I play a lot of word games online and I will be adding yours to my daily regimen. Clever use of sound too. I may want to turn it off at times but for now at least I'm leaving it on.

My thoughts:

Add option to eliminate sounds and light show when dragging letters.

Add ability to select the difficulty. A difficult puzzle on a gray Saturday morning during breakfast is more than I can handle.

Too hard (and i help my wife with crosswords).

Hint mode (put one letter in place) would be the best UI

Quick and fun and well polished. The audio and visual fx are satisfying. Nice!

my 2 cents : please kill the light-show and music while moving letters effects. I think you want your users to be able to concentrate. Unless this effect is there to make this game harder for some reason ?

I like the idea but I gave up :( pretty challenging

I have no idea how to play. Am I alone here? Baffled.

Well done. That was tricky and fun.

nice!!

I’d pay for the archive. This is great. Really nice work.