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wonger_

- I like how the alphabetical order of missing words acts as a small hint

- The difficulty felt challenging yet doable

- The UI looks polished

- I agree with others that the word-forming UX could be improved; maybe by typing letters, or maybe by more generous drag behavior

whiterook6

When the vertical bar is very short, like two or three letters only, it is hard to find space to tap and drag the bar up or down. A more generous vertical tap-and-drag region, or handles, or up/down arrows, would be nice on a phone.

ineptech

The vertical bars don't seem to be draggable on desktop, took me a while to figure out you have to click on letters.

chungus

That was fun. Wasn't able to get the hints, it just said "reveal word". But I got most of them. Be aware that swiping can trigger page back on phone browsers

no_news_is

Share link is a redirect to sms: URL

I don't have a handler for that (on desktop) and I wasn't expecting it anyway, I'd want a copy-to-clipboard type of action

Just shared the website link instead, hope you get some traction

MrZander

Fun game concept!

Some improvements I would request:

* An option to disable the "success" sound in the settings. It is quite loud.

* There is no way for me to go back and see what my time was once I left the page. I only have the option to replay the game.

NoArcher888

During yesterday Word Slicer got quite good traffic due to getting on the first page of Hacker News again. The post got back on the first page with it hit 50 points.

I am tracking two goals: "Start game" and "Complete Game". This is what I got yesterday:

Goal: Start game Returning visitors conversion rate is 10.98% , New visitors conversion rate is 6.79%

Goal: Complete game: Returning visitors conversion rate is 8.54% , New visitors conversion rate is 4.29%

Total disaster or quite ok? Let me know what you think. Thanks!

Waterluvian

Very cool. Took me 2:38 and felt fun. Nice ergonomics.

Note the z-index of the close X button on the results page was too low. It hides partly behind the card inner frame.

koch

I want to be able to type instead of clicking on letters

michaelmior

Cool!

Minor feedback, when I went to sign up, I got "Secure sign-up code is on it's way" Seems to be some escaping issue.

omoikane

It did not register "SIR" as a word.

https://imgur.com/a/EkuQ2be

The sliders were "TQSF", "KWRI", "RNIV". I found FIN, FIR, SIN, TIN. It rejected SIR.

synthoidzeta

Can we reject all cookies? I only see the option to reject optional cookies

s1mn

Nice! Lots of fun, I'll be coming back. Is it a new game each day?

tyleo

I thought the author did a great job on the sound design here.

alexliu518

Very comfortable and simple UI

6510

good game, I'm terrible at it

Shoop

Puzzmo Typeshift is a similar game: https://www.puzzmo.com/play/typeshift/