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lexfri, to random
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I’ll celebrate
If you do great
As you take on
Conlextions 258

https://lex.games/connections/1716552000

lexfri,
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@danielpunkass woohoo!

And what a great time!

lexfri, to random
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I'm pleased to share Lex.Games is now available for iPhone and iPad!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lex-games/id6498941705

Featuring six daily word games and puzzles, including Conlextions, Lexicogs, By A Vowel, Six Appeal, Letter Opener, and Mind Control.

lexfri,
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If you already play Lex.Games on the web and are wondering just what the heck Letter Opener is...

That one is exclusive to iOS for now. And is free for all!

You get a handful of letters as an "opener." You have 90 seconds to find as many words as you can, and the longer the words, the more points they're worth!

lexfri,
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While not every game from Lex.Games on the web is in the app yet, many are! Conlextions looks quite lovely. And that shuffle button is a joy — trust me.

lexfri,
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Oh, did I mention that the game has a mellow (mutable) soundtrack? It sure does! And the win jingle when you solve a puzzle — like Lexicogs — is worth the price of admission.

(Worth noting: The price of admission is: free. But people tell me they like the jingle!)

lexfri,
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I know there are By A Vowel stans out there. Good news: BAV works great in Lex.Games. And as with all the other games, you can see the leaderboard and all the archives, too…

lexfri,
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Mind Control, like the endless "Rando" versions of Letter Opener and Six Appeal, is limited to paying subscribers. You can subscribe on the web or in the app.

Subscribers also get the ability to appear on the leaderboards, and play a full-size daily crossword puzzle on the web (or in the amazing Black Ink app from @danielpunkass).

lexfri,
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So: Lex.Games in the App Store! Go get it! Free to a good home.

Many thanks to patient folks who were extremely helpful to me along the way, including...

tech help from
@BenRiceM @caseyliss @jamesthomson @Gte
@gknauss

design magic from @bw

and beta feedback from many folks including @dmoren, @spol, @holgr, @zmk, and many, many others.

It takes a village. Especially given that I had no idea what I was doing.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lex-games/id6498941705

matt, to random
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Maybe it's stagecraft. Maybe it's something else…

OpenAI's sub-30 minute presentation yesterday was more compelling than Google's I/O keynote…and it wasn't even close.

lexfri,
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@matt absolutely agree

tante, (edited ) to random
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When you see podcast charts and Lex Fridman's Tech Sycophant Hour is in the top slots and maybe we should just hope the aliens nuke us from orbit.

lexfri,
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lexfri, to random
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There are already some insanely fast times posted for today’s By a Vowel 👀

https://lex.games/byavowel/1714392000

lexfri,
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@waynedixon good lord

lexfri, to random
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Conlextions champion.

lexfri,
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@siracusa I didn't reply to this earlier because I was busy moving most things off UserDefaults because you text-shamed me

(and more because I thought it DID persist through reinstalls/updates, but then realized it does NOT, which was NO GOOD)

lexfri, to random
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Maybe this is a silly thing to be excited about, but the new https://lex.games Home Screen is handsome and I’m happy with the direction it’s going.

lexfri,
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@glennf the little letter chunks are the cogs, man

lexfri, to random
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Once you solve By a Vowel 9, you’ll feel like a genius!

https://lexfriedman.com/byavowel/1711108800

lexfri,
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@danielpunkass clean sweep!

glennf, to random
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@lexfri paying customer of Lex Friedman word games here! My login state is not retained day-to-day on any of my devices.

lexfri,
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@glennf You and Tony BOTH had this confusion, I gotta build a helper note for folks like you. You must enter the whole word.

lexfri,
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@glennf You already used that vowel correctly, so it won’t let you use it again, is my guess.

And you are not setting cookies when logging in, and I find that very, very confusing.

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