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Latest WordWalk News

New Features:

1. Now you can see the what your new puzzle is going to look like incrementally, as you build it. See Rootword search on the Puzzle Search and Build page.
2. Many YouTube videos made for solving Wordwalk puzzles. See link in navbar above.
3. Created new owner and creator fields within the Puzzle database table. Keeping a spearate DB table for puzzle ownership was not very efficient. This also paves the way puzzle creators (who are also by default the initial puzzle owners) to offer their puzzles for sale on a puzzle marketplace soon to be deployed.
4. Beta testing is finished! We are live!
5. You can now go back and look at previous date's daily puzzles by putting the prior date's string in the URL.
6. Re-arranged puzzle layout. Put the subwords underneath the puzzle and put other information in row above the table. More real estate for the puzzle itself, especially big ones. Also, some puzzles can have many subwords, and that used to gobble up all the vertical real estate from the puzzle. So that is better now.
7. Changed game timing. It now counts down from a time determined by the complexity of the puzzle. Game is over if time runs out.
8. You can now select your preferred languages in your profile. Currently, it only affects the daily puzzles that are displayed. But soon it will affect your search results too and leaderboard displays. It won't affect the puzzles you've created or played in the past that are listed on your profile.
9. You now have unlimited guesses!! But be careful; you might score negative points!
10. New Language Added: Italian!!!!
11. Initial Implementation of Direct Messaging between Users

    You can go to another user's partial profile page and click on the link directly below their picture to send a direct message to this user.

    You can also go to your own profile and take the link there to read messages sent to you.

Bug Fixes:

1. Changed points algorithm: Now you don't get any rewards for correct subword guessing, or for letters and arrows. Instead, you get the max points possible if you correctly guess the rootword without making any errors. If you make any errors, however, 25 points are subtracted for each incorrectly guessed subword. In this way, you do not have to guess all the subwords; only the rootword counts. So, if you can guess the rootword by just looking at the puzzle and the the list of subwords -- but without guessing any of the subwords -- you will get max points and a short time.
2. Changed layout and number of Daily Puzzles. We now offer three levels of difficulty for each language: "Easy", "Medium" and "Hard". The language "English, USA, Kids" is no longer being used. Instead, difficulty levels are cited.
3. Removed display of total score on puzzle since it is already displayed in upper right corner.
4. Database has now officially migrated from sqlite3 to postgres, a more robust, professional database management system! One more major milestone (email config) before going fully public with this site.

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