Long words in correct guesses can overflow
limit by characters, not words

1. Ensure hive buttons doesn't float over controls, even in landscape / other screen width/height
2. Try to make hive scale better, currently pushing submit buttons off screen on some phones
3. Avoid toasts floating over text / controls on smaller screens. E.g. iPhone 13 mini

#9 is done, but the desktop experience still isn't great.

1. set max width for modals
2. reduce dead space / improve media queries
3. show animations when key is pressed on keyboard? letter, enter, delete

Add extra hidden rankings:

Maybe just one where all words are found?
Could be too large a gap between genius and final rank though, TBD on number of hidden ranks.

Hi @ConorSheehan1 ,

Accidentally bumped into your site and found this very great piece of work. I can't help wondering what motivates you to keep on updating the app?

Also, I wonder if the spelling puzzle game can be compiled for android devices? My kids would love this. (I don't really want them to go to nyt and get exposed to ugly politics)

Cheers

Users have reported issues related to new games starting at unexpected times, and getting the same game twice

Possible causes:

1. Truncating date time here

   spelling-bee/src/store.ts

   Line 103 in 1dd95c5

   return this.getGameDate.toISOString().split("T")[0];

   
   May need to store date + timezone info, and call to isoString for all comparisons
   already storing gameDate and lastGameDate as date object. Need more info from users
   

   spelling-bee/src/store.ts

   Line 18 in aac7b96

   gameDate: useStorage("gameDate", epoch as Date),

Create tab to see past scores

• add chart library
• show past scores, ranks, graph over time + stats on genius rate
• store yesterdays answers in local storage so if algorithm to pick today's/yesterdays answers changes again and user played game yesterday, they still see yesterdays answers that applied to them
• investigate size over time. If data becomes too large may need to switch from local storage to central hosted db?

currently color can only be set manually.
check prefers-color-scheme first, but allow manual override

After making sorting idempotent #13 the chance is reduced, but we could still add words which push a puzzle over the minimum 20 word threshold, creating a new puzzle, and displacing old ones. If this pushes the current or previous puzzle, we could end up with issues.

To avoid this, create a script to run after generating puzzles that confirms the puzzles for yesterday, today, and optionally tomorrow have not changed.

If you have any words you'd like me to add to the game, please comment below.

List so far (done in #13):

• Bemuse
• Bloat
• Blondness
• Bonobo
• Booboo
• Boneless
• Callable
• Cleanable
• Coder
• Debone
• Derobe
• Defund
• Dermis
• Epidermis
• Infinities
• Internet
• Oldness
• Nonce
• Null
• Orca
• Parser
• Redeemer
• Renter
• Sherpa
• Uncallable
• Uncleanable
• Unfitness

Add share button for score

on desktop add ability to type letters rather than click the buttons

• delete with backspace
• submit with enter
• no action for keys not in available letters

We got lots of user feedback about the word list being inconsistent. I've also been unhappy with it for various reasons. Possibly use OED word list, consistent British english only. Currently mix of British and American. We should:

1. Change the worlist to something more consistent
2. Update references / links in the app and readme
3. Create an announcement modal so users know it's changed the next time they play

Highlight pangrams in drop down and yesterdays answers

+ 'pangram' in instructions / info

• Game is resetting before 12 midnight local time.
• Also issue with month borders. Need to get days since start of year or epoch, instead of converting date directly to int.

Keep user answers from yesterday, show which words were found / missed.

Already using text color / bold for pangrams. Maybe use cell fill background color? Or split into 2 tables, found and not found?

• i18n (leftover from beach litríochta, but not in use for english verison)

• answers
  currently sending 10 years worth of answers to the client, slow and dumb.
  try netlify functions to return todays and yesterdays answers only.
  https://www.netlify.com/products/functions/

  need netlify cli for local dev to verify serverless function works before push
  https://www.netlify.com/blog/2021/12/12/how-to-test-serverless-functions-locally/

Having multiple instances of the game open in the same browser causes the score and answers to flash rapidly between the last and current state. I suspect this has something to do with local storage + vue reactivity.