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Hi!
I want to kick off this newsletter with a small
update: Puzzle Pack #2 is almost done! I'm
afraid to give an exact deadline quite yet, but
it's coming soon!
Besides working on the puzzle pack, I've
also been busy implementing a big improvement
for the game: More colors for the corner tags,
and more tags. I've been introducing them
bit by bit, and many have already found them,
either by accident or by word of mouth. But last
week I finally wrote about it in the
"What's new" section under the
puzzle, and now I'm mentioning it for the
first time in the newsletter.
So, in case you didn't find out about it
yet, there are now more colors available for the
corner tag. If you long-press the top part of a
card (anywhere on the top part, not only the
corner), a color palette will pop up. Now if you
drag your finger/cursor up and down, the tag
will switch between different colors. Very
useful if you need to access more colors than
the 3 basic ones! Long-press will also directly
jump to the previously used color, so it's
a quick way of tagging multiple people with the
same color.
And that's not all! You can also
long-press the bottom part of the card to add
another color to the bottom right corner of each
card! But why only long-press? Why can't
you click the bottom tag? Well, I'm worried
it will start interfering with tapping on the
cards. But we'll see, it might still change
in the future.
(Unfortunately, there is a bug for Chrome users
on Android: The color palette closes
prematurely, and the page will just scroll
instead. This is a very unfortunate issue, and I
have not yet been able to find a workaround.
Sorry for this! It used to work, but seems like
it broke in a recent Chrome update. Let me know
if you happen to know of a robust way of
implementing this type of
"long-press-then-drag"
interaction.)
Haven't yet tried the new corner tags?
Well go and give them a spin with these bonus
puzzles!
#1 Easy - https://cluesbysam.com/archive/d7ad309f0fd8
#2 Tricky - https://cluesbysam.com/archive/da0613481d69
#3 Evil - https://cluesbysam.com/archive/47f5f8e2a1b1
Here's also last week's puzzles and
results. Same as before: Top 1% / 10% / 50%
solve times and % of completes without making a
single mistake/hint. And this time also % of
completes without taking a single hint. So, if
you completed Monday's puzzle in less than
1m 40s, you're one of the top 1% solvers.
If you completed Saturday without a single
mistake or taking a hint, you're one of the
rare 14%. If you didn't need a hint on
Sunday, you're one of the 63% most stubborn
detectives. (Oh wow, that's a really high
percentage of stubborn detectives!)
Mon 2025-11-17 (Easy): 1m 40s / 2m 25s / 4m 15s / 38% / 90%
Tue 2025-11-18 (Medium): 1m 53s / 2m 53s / 5m 17s / 36% / 85%
Wed 2025-11-19 (Medium): 2m 25s / 3m 45s / 6m 46s / 20% / 80%
Thu 2025-11-20 (Tricky): 3m 5s / 5m 0s / 9m 19s / 40% / 76%
Fri 2025-11-21 (Hard): 3m 9s / 5m 15s / 9m 54s / 26% / 76%
Sat 2025-11-22 (Hard): 3m 16s / 5m 27s / 10m 40s / 25% / 74%
Sun 2025-11-23 (Hard): 3m 30s / 6m 17s / 12m 35s / 14% / 63%
It's interesting how the number of
"prefect solves" doesn't always
correlate with the difficulty. Like, what
happened on Wednesday? Otherwise, seems like the
difficulty was going up nicely towards Sunday,
shown by both solve times and no-hint
completions.
That's all! Have a nice week, and
hopefully I'll have that next puzzle pack
ready for you soon!
-Sam
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