Doctor Whordle Debugging

[purplecat]

Is there is anyone out there who has played Doctor Whordle and doesn't mind risking losing their game history?

I tried to do something clever which involved displaying a message next time anyone opened up the game (to explain I'd moved from five to six letter words). Unfortunately this change runs slightly differently in the deployment environment than in the development environment. The upshot is that I can't view Doctor Whordle at all in the browser I normally play in. I've changed the code so the message no longer messes around with the local storage in the browser, but I've no way of checking if this has fixed the problem. It looks fine on every device where I've not played the game before, but I've only that one where I was keeping state and it still won't display at all on that.

So if there is anyone out there who's prepared to take the risk, can you open up Doctor Whordle - refresh the page if it isn't showing you a six letter word to guess and tell me if still works or if I seem to have broken it for existing players.

https://louiseadennis.github.io/doctor-whordle/

Comments

[shivver]

I don't play it regularly, but I have played it in the past.

In Edge (where I've played it before): I clicked on your link and it opened showing the 6-letter format, but no message appeared.

In Chrome (where I have not played it before): I copied your link to Chrome and it opened showing the 6-letter format with the "how to play" popup.

Let me know if you want me to send you the screenshots.

Note that the "how to play" popup still displays 5-letter examples. Also, the ! and i symbols in the upper right both open that same popup.

I'm going to go ask my husband (who plays it more frequently than I do, but still sparingly) to see what happens for him. Also, I'm a QA analyst by trade and am happy to continue testing for you.

[eve11]

works for me. It says to hit the exclamation point in the corner for the message, and when I do, i see the message. (though exclamation has an extra 'm' in it, unless that's a british way of spelling it?)