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With all my heart, I want to cheer you on. Making stuff is damn hard, and shipping is even harder. You did that, and I applaud you for it.

I do a lot of NYT puzzle stuff every day and some other random puzzle sites before I get out of bed. That said, I'm over 40, love puzzles, love complicated board games, went through your brief explainer, and could not get a sensible handle on how to even start this thing. A new player has to really care about how to even try to begin to figure out whatever this is. I gave it about 20 seconds after the "how does it work?" Honestly, I gave up. I'm really not trying to rain on your parade. You might find a niche audience, and it'll be what you're going for, but I think you need a much, much better rules explainer if you want to be even remotely in the vicinity of a Wordle-level banger.

This thing might be really awesome, but not being able to figure out how to use it is a hard out for me.



Hey, thanks for the candid feedback! It’s super helpful.

I’m curious if there were specific aspects you struggled with or if the whole thing was confusing?

Did you try the Practice Puzzle or jump right into the daily?

Practice puzzle: https://tiledwords.com/puzzles/practice

It sounds like you read the instructions but they weren’t enough. Maybe a video explainer would be better? Does the gameplay recording on this Reddit post help at all?

https://www.reddit.com/r/DestroyMyGame/comments/1osxb2q/i_re...

People really seem to like it once it clicks (Over 1100 people have finished the daily puzzle so far today) but there is a steep learning curve and I’d love to learn how to help people get past that initial hump.


IMO I shouldn't change the onboarding much. The game is very intuitive. Everyone I showed it to has picked it up in about 30 seconds.

It's very much a learn-by-doing game.

PS - This game is so fun. I don't usually do word games, but I can't stop playing this one.


Thanks, that’s good to hear!


My ideas are:

- Add an optional video explainer on the How To Play screen

- Redesign How to Play to push you towards the practice puzzle more strongly

- Add more practice puzzles that ramp up in difficulty




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