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Achievements, 400 total puzzles, and a 50%-off sale!
Every now and again I google myself, just to see what might come up; I happened to decide to do that yesterday, and found that someone at BuzzerBlog had written an article mentioning Word x Word just the day before! Ban…
Announcement - Word x Word
Surprise! +12 puzzles (and a maintenance update)
To make sure Word x Word continues to run on modern hardware, I've upgraded underlying third-party libraries and runtimes to the latest versions (MonoGame 3.8.3 and .NET 9, if you're curious). "And as long as I'm doing…
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I couldn't help myself: ANOTHER UPDATE
There's about 20 new puzzles, plus some tweaks to existing puzzles. There's several new body parts to build your contestant with: a couple new bodies, some more eyes, and a new mouth. The game now detects the size of yo…
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What's this? A Word x Word update?
This random & unexpected update contains: A small handful of new puzzles. A few words added to a few existing puzzles. Updates to underlying packages and runtimes, which make vague promises of across-the-board performan…
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1.1.1 release: small AI bug fix
There was a rare case where a computer player would really want to spin for letters, even when there were no letters left for it to spin for, resulting in the AI eternally trying to hit its disabled "SPIN" button, locki…
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1.1.0 Release: AI Difficulty Setting, +50ish Puzzles, and More
There's now an Easy AI setting! Until you win at least one game, you can only play against Easy AI. After winning a game, you can choose your difficulty setting. (If you've won a game before this update, you'll be able…
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1.0.1 Release: Smartening up the AI!
The AI had a couple obvious weaknesses in its gameplay, which this release fixes... along with a couple more minor things: AI will now consider its opponent's board, when attempting to solve the puzzle AI no longer gets…
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