u/deadletter-game

Hi,

I created a new type of word puzzle which is a mini-crossword, but with a twist.

It's a 6x6 grid. Like a crossword there are six across clues and six down clues.

The difference is the letters in the grid for each clue answer will be in a mixed up order. So if a clue answer is KITTEN, the letters in the grid may be IETKNT. The goal is to fill the entire grid, so that each across and down will be an anagram of its corresponding clue answer.

It's difficult for me to playtest, since I come up with the clues. I have tried it once asking someone else to come up with clues, and I found the puzzle to be pretty challenging and fun. For my playtest, it took some time, but eventually solved it. Figuring out the last couple clues, eventually, felt nice.

If this sounds like a puzzle you'd be interested in trying, I'd love to hear what you think about it. This will help me to decide whether to launch it publicly. The puzzle is currently playable on a private subreddit I created. Comment or DM if you're interested and I can add you as a user to the sub. Thanks!

If you're in the middle of a game and cannot finish it, you can now resume it later if you want. The next time you open the game and press Play, if you have a game that you started, but didn't finish, you'll be prompted with the option to continue that game, or to start a new one.

Only the most recent unfinished game is stored.

The leaderboard has been expanded to show the top 20 instead of top 10. This is retroactive as well, so all games going back to game #1 will have the expanded list.

One display issue, in the desktop view, there is an unintended scrollbar on the leaderboard when there are 10 or more players in the list. I'll look to remove that in the next update.

The top word list, also will now always show the top 10 unique word/score pairings. Previously, it would show less if multiple people shared the same word/score pairing.