Scott also just released a video of how to NOT play the two modes: Do them at the same time, using the same guesses for both. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAR_...

I fully endorse this nonsense, but I wouldn't recommend you try it yourself unless you have a high tolerance for information overload.

Squardle's free to play in your browser, so you can simply jump in and try it yourself. But if you'd like a rundown of the new stuff first, youtuber Scott Stro-solves has made these preview videos of how to play the new game modes:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Hg...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPmS...

Hotfix now live! Refreshing the game page should now allow you to load Weekly Squardle #184. If you have cache issues, add ?4711 (or ?whatever ) to the end of the URL to make your browser actually load from the server instead of from your cache.

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I'm sure it'll be fine!

What this means for the upcoming game modes is that as there's no fear of running out of boards mode modes will be freeplay, so you will be able to play them as much as you like.

You can play Squardle for free, and ad free, here: fubargames.se/squardle/

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The inner squares form a 4x4 magic square but using the start and end letters of 5-letter words as the word list. 4x4 boards are already easier to find, and the list of allowed answers for this 4x4 is bigger than the list for Squardle XS.

Then the outer 4 words only have to match 3 squares each.

Given how rare 5x5 double magic word squares (aka "Weekly Squardle boards") are, I was a bit surprised that there were plenty of valid boards for this bigger board type. Thinking about it a bit more it's not that odd though...

The board for "Squardle 34", (the other mode that's currently being tested by my awesome Patreon supporters), came about because Squardle Distance made me examine if there were some way to make a bigger board what still used 5-letter words.

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Wordle-like players are much more trained in guessing words with exactly 5 letters, so I also didn't want to force players to guess 6- or 7-letter words while playing the new mode. The new type of hints already added enough complexity.

I've been wanting to try out this sort of hints for quite a while now, but early pen and paper playtesting showed that for it to be fun it required a larger grid than 5x5 squares, and it worked better if that board also didn't have lots of holes in it.

Yeah it does! That looks like a bug I briefly introduced while working to add XS. But I *thought* I had already fixed it before release. Are you on v1.912?

If you prefer watching someone else struggle, here are two YouTubers tackling this year's April Fool's Squardle!

@ginjanner.bsky.social : www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzm1...

Scott Stro-solves: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk_7...

Desculpe, perdi sua resposta! De que forma a página muda? Estou supondo que você esteja falando sobre meu jogo fubargames.se/squardle/ e não sobre aquele outro jogo que é escrito com mais um E? Se sim, em qual navegador? Celular ou PC?

Watching players playing your game is of course great, and I'm sure that the *best* way to collect such data is by organizing playtests *before* you release your game. But using let's play videos and such to find issues that are too small to get bug reports can still be valuable!

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3/3

This makes it so that you no longer have to release the mouse button before you type the letter for the note. Before this fix, doing so would result in the intended note would be entered as the first letter in a guess.

I only noticed this UI issue by watching players on YouTube and TikTok.

2/x

I've had very few complaints about English words *not* being an allowed guess. It seems ABJAD isn't in any Scrabble dictionaries (yet) and I *think* the word list is based on some combination of multiple word game dictionaries. So that's probably why.