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.
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