Letters and Numbers Countdown 4+

Some bugs

I’ve noticed playing the 15 and 30 second daily challenges that the numbers will often have the same ending, eg, 247, 347 or 856, 656. Also, I’m completely stuck on Conundrum Level 1 even though I’ve achieved the necessary points and percentages many many times over. Plus, I only get words starting with A. Reset everything. Updated the app. No changes.

Progression

I have no problem with the game getting harder, however, it is too fast a progression.
It’s not fair to fail to understand legitimate words in a dictionary, yet play others that aren’t. It also seems that every time the letters are difficult the most obscure of words appears. This wouldn’t happen on the show.
On the numbers side, don’t progress too far. Once you do the combination of numbers needs brackets and knowledge of obscure tables that only geniuses know. At least on the show they explain away how this could be a method of thinking. None given here. No chance to learn. I also hate the way you can’t go back when a decimal or fraction is part of the calculation. If I were on the show I could always keep part of a calculation. Very irritating.
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Greatly improved but still needs work

Love that this checks words in the OED. There is potential to offer choice of dictionary eg. Merriam Webster for the US, Macquarie fir Australia (even though I’d still choose the OED - please make this setting optional.

Room for improvement to Layout:
1. move the play buttons to the bottom of the screen underneath where the letters come up so we don’t have such a big movement to choose new letters.
2. get rid of the unnecessary text (add a ‘help’ icon to navigate to instructions.
3. clean up the table space graphics so it is friendlier to vision impaired people ie get rid of background image, just stick your logo at the top of the screen if it looks too bare, mostly though you need visual definition which is using contrasting colours for the active part of a window.
4. not sure how to improve it but the numbers puzzle feels really clunky, perhaps have an ‘add brackets’ button which puts brackets around both ends of what has been typed. I probably won’t bother with the numbers part until it’s improved. It’s too clumsy to operate compared to when watching on the show.
Good luck. Keep it up.

Developer Response ,

Thanks so much for your detailed review, I have addressed the issues you brought up in the latest update, please check it out. Still working on adding other dictionaries, next update hopefully.