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Beautifully designed, very clean, but frustrating to play due to being unpleasantly difficult. I gave up after 5 minutes.

It would help to have an unlimited undo in a dedicated button. I realize that the undo can be done by spinning words in reverse order, but that's inconvenient and I really wouldn't remember what I did beyond last 2-3 words.

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Thanks for trying it! Do you think undo would be okay if it “cost” you a turn? Part of the fun (for me at least) has been the competitive nature of it (ie, competing on getting the lowest turn count)

No, imo that won't be okay. Competition is not in a picture if one can't even finish a round :)

Perhaps you can have competitive and casual modes? One with the score and no undo, another without and with respectively.

I think this is a good idea. I personally enjoy seeing where I place and trying to use the least possible number of moves. However, I also thought it would be good to be able to play as many puzzles as you want in a day, and a casual mode may be a way to do this.

There could be an official word each day that is ranked, but also randomly generated puzzles that you could play limitlessly. Only issue there is when you have words appearing in the casual mode and ranked mode, which I'm not entirely sure how to fix.

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