It's also not clear if there's a goal in each game. So far as I can tell it goes on forever.

Edit: both the lock and dial game modes put me into the same dial game mode; I'm going to guess it's a bug. They also seem to be for the same article.

Never got around to it, but this is clever.

How did you design that awesome background!?

Some things you could add to make it stickier:

1. Have a natural end where you "win" - possibly I just didn't hit this, it's the kind of game I'd play in bed in the morning as long as the play time was similar to Wordle and the other NYT games.

2. Have facts show up when you get something right! Could literally just be the opening sentence from the article and a link to the article. This extra context stimulates curiosity - I'd love to be able to have "Space physics? That doesn't sound like a real thing..." and then have the hat guy pop up and go, "You cracked it chief. Space Physics is the study of high atmosphere plasmas."

EDIT: for comparison, have a look at Metazooa - https://metazooa.com/ - which did this very well.

After my first answer, I just got ”Something went wrong…”

I'm guessing it scrapes Wikipedia for a topic and then digests it, converting it into informational cards.

I then did the ransom one, but I did quite well until I got definitely bored around round 70. I think 100 rounds are too much, at least for the daily game.

Thank you, OP.

1. Letters are sometimes barely shuffled 2. Sometimes same clue with different redacted words come one after another so you know which words are redacted 3. Sometimes (foreign names for example) the answer is not redacted due to accents. Same for similar words (complexity uncensored for "complex system"). Sometimes picture or video contains answer. 4. I guess you use some popularity metric for articles? I got Greece, ancient Greece and archaic Greece, though the topic is allegedly physics? Maybe filtering a bit more would be better 5. Before I started game I didn't know how long it is supposed to last. Apparently it's indefinite, and I lost on purpose to verify it. 6. Some feeling of progression with harder tasks would also feel nice.

Two pain points: - No "reward" after guessing it even completing. If based on Wikipedia, give me some facts about the places! (Even if wrong imo) - I did the physics map daily. I got the same location 4 times in a single play. Definitely need logic to prevent doing the same location to the same use in a certain time period.

I was doing locations. I got something that looked like the parthenon. Like an idiot, I clicked Rome. Wrong. Chalkida, Greece.

Next location: same pictures. OK, I picked Chalkida. Wrong. Orchomenos.

Next location: same pictures. OK, I picked Orchomenos. Correct. And the accepted range was a huge square, covering most of Greece and the surrounding Mediterranean. Chalkida would have been within it as well.

So the location seems inconsistent with the pictures and the same pictures kept showing up.

Design suggestion: The home page "START" button looks more like a logo (in the BOWLARAMA vein), my eye skipped right over it.