some days I really do. thanks steve for all your contributions! you've been a rock!

mk was the motivating force for much of this game - it was mk's idea and steve and I argued over rules. we all play tested the crap out of it. I like it better than wordle.

Thanks! mk had the initial idea after steve and mk and I were sharing wordle rounds and I got this one:

Wordle 1,208 4/6

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WordleBot

Skill 85/99

Luck 57/99

No yellows today!

and mk got this one:

Wordle 1,208 6/6

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no yellow here either!

We all play hard mode, and sometimes you get these long runs where you are just changing a letter or two. mk suggested making a version where you try to make as many words as you can without repeating letters in a position, and the next week I had some free time so I made a standalone app that was very rugged but it worked.

It was so much fun! We experimented with rules, and then it sat there for a while until mk prodded me again and suggested making an online version, which I had never done before. I've learned a ton!

Wow! Great score. Glad you like it! Still making a bunch of small changes...

I just started collecting data. The median for today is 7. Someone got 14!

Most days I get around 5-7, but I've gotten 12 before.

Image link is broken. Is it the same piece every time? Is it entirely over the calendar, or partly on the frame?

Thank you! But now I've been trying for 5 minutes to get a piece to float over the board and not settle into place and can't do it. I'm sssuming it's got to have its corners exactly centered in the middle of the squares. (If you're pranking me, well done! I'll be here all evening if I have to! Otherwise... challenge accepted! A puzzle within a puzzle...)

... and we're changing the arrows to unidirectional like you suggest! But keeping them at both the top and bottom. (And making them disappear after 3 seconds of not touching a piece). They can still be dragged, which is how I like to rotate them.

Thank you so much! We really appreciate you sharing! :-)

Thanks wasoxygen!

• Yes, we should change the arrows. I drag them in the direction I want, tapping them was a later addition because we found some people preferred that, but it can be confusing

• For consistency, I think we'll keep the flipping the rectangle option. I kind of like it!

• We're aware of vibration resetting. It will be fixed in an update going up today!

• We occasionally find an irreproducible error and it drives us insane!

• version 2 coming early next year will have social sharing that shows what frame you used without showing the solution ... it will be a little tricky to pull this off!

• version 2 will also have the ability to connect with friends and compete in weekly competitions, with a leaderboard and everything. Excited about this!

• we'll add notifications soon, too! Like, at 8 pm if you haven't solved for today it will send you a reminder.

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Sven just sent a new build, so updates will be happening today or tomorrow! They usually take a day or two to get approved. Updates include:

• the solution bank will show the puzzles with the custom set you solved with!

• time machine when active will show "Yesterday" with "tap to reset" under it, to make it more obvious that you've got time machine going.

• some font and text size fixes

• saving light/dark and vibration settings

Nearly finished building an extra room on a small annex. Fun time working with a knowledgeable friend, we built it from the bedrock up. Scraped the earth, build foundation walls, leveled gravel, placed insulating sheets, poured concrete floor, framed it, translucent roof, windows, doors, siding largely done.

Still to do: finish siding, electrical, insulation, and paneling. It's going to be work room for our puzzle-making business.

Very satisfied.

Attach to a headband. Tell people it's an early Google Glass prototype.

When I was on chemo, the drugs would keep me awake for 3 days at a time. I lost the ability to make sense of numbers, alarming for me as a mathematician who can remember tons of numbers because each is like the face of an old friend. I sometimes lost the ability to make sense of time, I could not remember if something happened a day before, a week before, or months, and I could not sequence past events. steve made a short video about that strange experience.

After treatment, I slept terribly for a year and my thinking and memory were always foggy. Lack of sleep make a huge impact on my intelligence during that period (however I was extremely production and creative during that time as well. Weird.) I had resigned myself to my condition as my new normal, but my new new normal came around to be my old normal.

It is a kind moose. You can see him coming from far away, which can give great clarity. In any case, should you get covid and have your IQ drop a standard deviation, at least it would give the rest of us a chance to catch up!

Thank you so much! There is a free "explorers guide" coming out any day. 60 pages of cool stuff related to Abacabax. Just have to make the cover, but we got a big rush of business in our puzzle company and everything else is on hold at the moment.

Fantastic! Going to add color?

Would you like to order a bonus pack of irregularly-shaped pieces, perfect for completing those hard-to-solve dates?

:-)

I love this. I may be the only one in Norway with it right now, so it may take a while for you to get my party invitation.

Awesome! Can't believe how long mail took this last month. Thankfully, everyone has been very patient. Have fun! (PS: you can post and compare solutions on our Facebook page).

Awesome -- thank you! It's been a busy few months, with KS, book and talk. Usually not this successful, I'm more used to attempting ambitious projects and watching them crash and burn (well, usually wither and die). But the Puzzle-A-Day at least is really taking off.

We've gotten a ton of orders this week, and packed them all up this morning, so yours will be in the mail tomorrow! Hope it arrives trouble-free!

Canada seems to be one of the slow countries. I'm guessing their postal service is overwhelmed this season. Hope you get it soon!

They seem to be coming in to different countries at random times, but they've been arriving as far away as Japan and Australia, while some people in the UK are still waiting. Big variation in what's happening with post offices in different areas. Hope you get yours soon!

Awesome! If you've filled out the survey (so we have your address) yours will have been sent out on December 9th... so you should have it soon if not already!

Thanks for the shout-out goobster! Glad you like it!

Thanks! Here's the picture of the Family Tree that was a little hard to see on the video.

Thanks mk! :-)