Earlier this week I started playing this CellTower game that many seem to be playing (my daughter says "ah you're playing word search"), and it's pretty fun.
I'm trying to optimize for time rather than for never making a wrong guess, per a suggestion I saw from @robinhouston. Today's puzzle took me 2 min 25 seconds (much of it trying to find the very first word!), so I think I must be getting better. Then again, on an older puzzle I tried earlier today I was stuck awfully long and it took 15 minutes, so maybe not just yet.
The result page shows a schematic diagram (below) of the correct and incorrect guesses one made while solving, but is otherwise unrelated to the gameplay.
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@svat Nice! Impressive to have such a fast time with that much back-and-forth.
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@robinhouston Thanks, I think it was mostly "local" (adding or removing small suffixes and prefixes)... Your comment made me think about whether it would be faster to think a bit more before adding a word, to avoid backtracking later. There seems to an interesting tradeoff (at least for me) involving the ability to keep things in one's head vs putting it on the board and seeing afresh. Things to try!
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