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You're on this page because you were sent an invitation to take part in a beta test of our newest game. Awesome! We're glad you decided to help us out.

In game terms, beta means “playable, but unfinished”. We're hoping you can help us find the rough edges. Just play the game below, and use the form to tell us what you like and what still needs work. All feedback is appreciated, so don't be shy!

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r. 04/18/11 Changes
New Landing page! After the game loads it proceeds directly to the main menu. You can login from the account bar

r. 112410 Changes
Graphical upgrade to frozen tiles: All tiles about to be frozen (and that have been frozen) now have a graphic showing they are about to freeze!
BugFix – The high score lists should display correctly. We are going to give them a visual pass as well soon
Misc other bug fixes

r. 110410 Changes
Account bar facelift – Everything looks better. Known issue: the tab needs to be made smaller so it doesn’t cover up the game ui elements
End round button: The end round button is covered for the first three moves, then it is made available. Let us know what you think of this change. How does it affect the end game?
End of time trial On the third round of a time trial game, the results screen button says “End game” instead of “Next round”
Account purchases You can now “buy” more months. To test out this feature, hit “buy months” on the account bar when you are logged in. Hit “stub form” on the next screen to have it fill out dummy data.

r. 101210 Changes
You can now register a new account! – this account will have no privileges except saving scores. Social gold / account upgrades will be in the next release.
New account Known Issue: We currently do not test for valid emails or usernames
New Utility Bar There is a new bar at the bottom of the screen which will hold registration, account info, and payments.
New Utility Bar Known Issue The animation and mouse tests are a bit unweildy. It will be more usable next pass.
Improvement – The “statistics” button now has a popup on it explaining what it is
Improvement – “End game” now has an explanation rollover
Improvement – The tutorial now has an “end tutorial” button with a rollover
Improvement – The in-game tutorial doesn’t show up in time trial mode

r. 100410 Changes
Paid beta test begun – Guest play is currently disabled and beta testers are gaining access here.
Known Issue – The in-game tutorials reset every time you start the game.
Known Issue – The in-game tutorials are due for a text, visual, and functionality pass. If you have any suggestions about how to improve them, please let us know!

r. 924 Changes
New Feature – Login system – you cannot yet make your own login, so use email: john@example.com password: password to play the full game, or click play as guest to test the rest
New Feature – Animations!
New Feature – New user help every time you play a new game. Currently resets every time you load the game.
Removed – The old score widget. We will be adding in a brand new one soon

r. 706 Changes
New Feature – Help button added so that you can access the instruction pages while playing
New Feature – click on a word in the round results panel to load its definition
UI improvement – Modified main menu to emphasize tutorial
UI improvement – Modified the badge colors so that they fit in better with the color scheme

r. 629 Changes
New Feature – Tutorial added!
Balance – Time Trial difficulty is not entirely linked to the time limit for each round
Balance – Time Trial on easy now gives you 60 seconds per round
UI improvement – words in the round result can now scroll, so you can see all of them even if you get more than 12 words in a round
UI improvement – reworded the Freeze Preview to make its purpose clearer
UI improvement – removed automatic game ending, since it wasn’t consistent with manually ending the round

r. 615 Changes
New Feature – ‘End Round’ button lets you end the round without swapping any more letters… in return, all letters that are currently counting down lock immediately.
Bug Fix – under some circumstances, you could get a blank letter; that shouldn’t happen any more.
Instructions – updated to reflect the new layout and to make it clearer that words need to be left-to-right or top-to-bottom.