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A coworker and my wife and I have recently been really enjoying https://bracket.city which is a crossword-clue inspired word game with daily puzzles. It does take a little while to figure out, I'd recommend starting off asking for hints fairly often to decrease frustration, but after a couple weeks my wife and I are on a streak of 3 days of scoring 100.

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Thanks for the suggestion, that was really fun. One I've been really enjoying in the same vein is https://raddle.quest

Thanks for that, I just played todays and it is pretty fun!

Neat puzzle.

My first wrong answer was an international spelling issue. It would be nice if it accepted then silently corrected based on equivalent international spellings, but I can also understand why it doesn't, sometimes it might be more crucial to the solution.

There is a "mayor@" e-mail you can use to submit requests like this and the developer has been pretty responsive.

I'll quite often wind up solving this by a sort of parallel construction, as in rather than getting the hint I can work out what word is supposed to be there based on what's around it. Some of the clues can be really cryptic.

Yes, that is the real trick when you get stuck is to start constructing the clues that it will eventually become.

Oh we absolutely love bracket city, +1

I’ve showed it to my friends, and it’s stuck. My brother shared it with all of his coworkers and they’re now playing too.

It’s fun watching it “spread” amongst my social group

You've had better luck spreading it than I have it sounds like. Everyone I've mentioned it to has said "It's too hard" and I don't think has really even given it a shot.

I thought this was way too hard. I didn't figure out a single word and even failed the tutorial. Seeing everyone loving it makes me feel really stupid.

I do think it is something that is a bit of a learned skill. I've done around 30 of them and the earlier ones I did rather poorly on, and even within the last 15 puzzles I had one where I scored 0. But the last 3 puzzles I've scored 100 on.

It's not for everyone I'm sure, especially if you are unfamiliar with common English phrases (like "bang for the buck").

I find it a bit US centric, like many of these games

Yes, that is definitely true.

Same. I saw a show HN on this a couple weeks ago and have been borderline addicted since.

Final score: 4.0 :/

But pretty creative game. Thanks for sharing!

That is probably around where my first score was. :-) My wife and I had a 0 a couple weeks ago.

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