Better sharing and a cleaner board

Sharing a result now tells your friends more without giving anything away, and the board makes better use of your screen.

Sharing

A shared daily now has one row per level: a green square for each word you made, a dark one for each you missed, and the level's points. Everyone gets the same words to fill, so the pattern spoils nothing, but no two runs look quite alike. It also says how you did against Tyler, the bot.

Links to your results now show a picture of your score when you paste them into a message: your name, your total, how you did against Tyler, and your board as blank tiles.

When a friend opens your link before playing that day's challenge, the words stay hidden until they've played it themselves. If they've already played, they see both scores side by side and a button to their own results.

A cleaner board

The strip above the board now leads with what to do next, like Place your letters, and a thin bar shows how far through the game you are. Tiles size themselves to your screen, so they're bigger on phones and on the shorter daily boards. The hint bulbs and the ✓ marks line up in one column on the right. A finished word that isn't in the dictionary now gets a ✗, so when it's time to trade you can see which word needs fixing.

On a laptop or desktop, your letters and the dice sit beside the board, so the whole game fits on screen without scrolling. On phones, the finish screen for a full board now fits without scrolling too.

Account safety

Password recovery now stops after a few wrong answers to your security question and asks you to wait before trying again. Resetting your password signs you out everywhere else, so a reset takes your account back from anyone else who was signed in.

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