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gdi it took me three days of puzzles to realize the corners arent the actual corner words until theyre confirmed as corners lmao

Love the concept! I only got one set down before my lack of US/Canada knowledge stumped me. (Maybe I should have got more, but you don't know what you don't know!) So a small request, should it work out, for one that should be more solvable without regional knowledge at some point :)

The repeated-words-as-corners twist is a genuinely fresh spin on the Connections formula — nice one. Grabbing game #1 now. I build themed grouping puzzles in the same genre (xclues.app), so always a treat seeing someone push the mechanic somewhere new. Congrats on launching.

I think it's good as designed, because otherwise, the corner becomes a hint. The way the designer made the squares obviously selectable is well done, and it's something that is only slightly confusing the first time you encounter it. Agreed there's some doubt, but I can't conceive a better design

for an embarrassingly long time I was trying to individually drag words into boxes (and all manner of trying different clicking, highlighting, dragging combinations) the hardest part of the puzzle was realizing how to actually submit words, haha

Fun! I find the visuals attractive too. One nit, the help section mentions 16 words. I spent a bit of time trying to sort out how to view the four additional words I didn’t see in the bank. What does logging in get the user? The option to save history/stats?

It was very much not obvious to me how to rearrange the four words after I had submitted them (ans: you rearrange existing words as part of submitting an intersecting set of words. Pick the word you want in the corner and the other three words).

Super into this! 1. "to get started just pick one group of four and submit" 2. "You can still select a word even after it's been placed, until it's used in a corner" This is really awesome

im also so happy that the simcluster seems to like hank green quite a bit, ive been following him and the vlog brothers for i think a decade now, and have read some of john's books too! if im not mistaken hank even follows some of the people here!