365 today, finishing with several right in a row
Gave it a try for the first time today. 365. Username Mayan
16th all time with just one play?
Same here
Unfortunately, it is very hard to get apps found in the App Store. Especially when many companies have very big advertising budgets and it is a hobby for me. I depend mostly on word of mouth. I buy some spots where my game will show up when someone searches on keywords, but those are expensive. That is why I am trying to run the contest, but it isnāt getting much traction either. Plus the overall feedback I have gotten with my apps is that they are too difficult for non-actuaries. Guess it is one of the pitfalls of dealing with actuaries all day. You get accustomed to a certain level of aptitude.
Totally understand- I just saw the 10,000 launch thing in this thread and assumed you were getting closer to it so was a little surprised to be so high is all. Not criticizing
I put 10k in order to ensure that I get close to making back the $500. I really thought that the contest would take off on twitter as I see contests with $25 gift card and thousands of retweets. I have a feeling they promote those tweets though to get the retweets.
Plus I figure, how many actuaries are there? More than enough to reach the goal 
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- Without even being confident that, with only one letter left to guess, my last guess was making a word.
365 today. Would have saved a strike if I hadnāt been so confident that the first word was something that it wasnāt after my first letter.
Have you considered an easier level as well as what you currently have? If you guess the Wheel of Fortune letters, youāll lose almost every day it seems.
Iāll post about the app on a chat I am on for another word game. Maybe that will help, who knows?
Thank you for offering to post it. It definitely will help. I have been thinking of ways to make levels of difficulty. My first thought was to make different word sizes. However, to make it work with the theme of the game the words have to be an even number of letters, different number of letters in the rings or the rings have to have a different number of letters in common in the intersections. The first makes 4 or 8 letter words which I tried with 4 letter ones and it was actually harder. The others are more difficult to program and I am not convinced it will be easier. I have thought about labeling words in the dictionary as easy/medium/hard by use of common letters. However, the number of words gets reduced greatly and the words start repeating when you limit to words with 2 letters intersecting. Maybe 2 rings instead of three? I am open to ideas. Thanks again.
Idea: Right now, the rings intersect at consecutive letters in each word. You could have the rings over lap on alternating letters.
SPOUT
SNOWY
The rings would look more like a venn diagram.
I donāt necessarily understand all of the implications of this, but thatās never stopped me beforeā¦
Idea: Have the rings intersect at just one letter. This might help you have different numbers of letters in the words.
I too did not understand the conditions, and think 5 letter words with 2 in common words 1:2 and words 2:3 would work. I would make them consecutive letters, but not consecutive would also work.
To me, having the rings intersect at just one letter would be a big step in the wrong direction. FAR less information about pairs of words.
Thatās a good point. It would make it much more of a ājust guess what the letters of this random word areā-game vs having words linked up.
Answering to the conversation in just one spotā¦ I like the idea of having a five letter word option with the rings intersecting on alternating letters. I am not sure this makes the game easier. Now instead of having 14 spots for the 26 letters of the alphabet to possible fit, you only have 11. Maybe going the other way is that maybe 5 letter words are more commonly used in daily conversation or easier to recognize? I will keep this idea on tap as I continue developing the game because giving more ways to play is usually a good idea to keep the game fresh.
Did I mention that I love actuaries and am proud to be amongst this group of professionals. Always with good ideas and willing to help.
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It would be a very small change in layout to keep the inner ring six letters and make the outside rings 5, still overlapping on consecutive letters.
This is also a good idea.