At long last I am pleased to announce that the new interactive, dynamic site for Wordwalk 2.0 is now open for Beta testing. You can find it here: Wordwalk.2.0 Beta This site has many features that improve on the legacy Wordwalk site: User sign up / login available Puzzle creation: Create your own unique puzzles and challenge others to solve them as quickly as you can! Player leaderboards Puzzle liking / favoriting Following other users Commenting on puzzles User profiles Future planed enhancements: Buy, selling, and trading puzzles using accumulated points as 'currency' Live two-person puzzle competitions Many more languages (coming soon: Italian, French, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish) Long-term: points conversion to crypto tokens Long-term: Rendering puzzles as NFTs
WordWalk puzzles now highlight the letter that starts the hidden rootword by thickening the border of the shape that depicts it. This was due to discovering that it is easy to forget which letter was first after correctly placing the subwords in the graph. E.g.,in today's English puzzle, we have: The first letter of the rootword is H, as indicated by the ovals with the thick borders. Then, after embedding, e.g., the subword "HALL" into the puzzle, we can still tell which letter is the first letter of the rootword:
Yesterday we implemented a new version of WordWalk , eliminating the drag-and-drop approach in favor of point-and-click. We have also placed all the candidate letters in a table row above the graph, so now there are no longer any floating letters that have to be dragged and dropped. We have also included the maximum possible score (which varies with each puzzle) so that you can compare your score against the best possible. To help understand how this works, let take a look at the kid's puzzle step by step. Here's the initial set up. Note that there 395 points possible. First we try to spell out "BEER" by selecting the B in the table: Then we select the B in the graph, which gets highlighted in yellow, and the yellow/red coloring for the B in the table reverts to white/black: Since the B is a correct first letter for either of the subwords, it remains yellow/black until the subword is completed. Since we are trying for "BEER", the next letter is E: Placin...
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