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by lpnotes 2y ago
I grew up thinking I had perfect pitch, after a youth choir director identified it and realized I could name all the notes from a random key played on the piano. Later in life, though, I realized that sometimes my perfect pitch was... half
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by lpnotes 2y ago
I was pondering how to make software engineering feel more fun.
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by lpnotes 2y ago
Pre-ordered! I noticed in the marketing photos that there was a keyboard, but it's not included in the pre-order bundle. Is there a recommended keyboard for the Daylight that's wireless?
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by lpnotes 3y ago
Yep! There should be a "backspace" key on the right end of the piano keyboard on mobile. I also just updated the mobile CSS today so you should see more of the keyboard at once, which hopefully will make it easier to play.
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by lpnotes 3y ago
Thanks for the report! I've noticed that 1) silent mode and 2) not wearing headphones sometimes causes the muting, but I'm still trying to figure out why exactly some iPhones seem to play fine with headphones and why some iPhones
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by lpnotes 3y ago
Thanks for your note! > One feedback is that I would like to be able to play more times a day. We will consider making the previous days' songs available to play. > Finally, I personally would like to choose the music genre of th
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by lpnotes 3y ago
Thanks for playing! If you click the "info" icon on the header of the page, you'll get the info box again! We used the same green/yellow/grey colors as the original Wordle game, but didn't realize they might be
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by lpnotes 3y ago
Indeed! I first heard this on TikTok and couldn't resist putting it into the database of songs.
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by lpnotes 3y ago
> Maybe remove the option to replay your own melody before submitting. reply This is available in "hard" mode!
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by lpnotes 3y ago
Thanks for the comment! You are maybe the fifth person to mention the octaves, haha. At the moment, I'm starting to think something like: Easy mode: we give you the octave guardrails Normal, hard: you have to select the right octave an
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by lpnotes 3y ago
No big downside; it will just take some refactoring of the code, and I originally hesitated to have three letters in an input box since two letters (e.g. an A#) already fills up a lot of space. > Perhaps you could also give the player an
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by lpnotes 3y ago
Definitely not cheating; that's exactly how you should play the puzzle! :) It's all about listening and comparing, and listening and comparing again. If you're playing in "normal" or "easy" mode feel free
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by lpnotes 3y ago
> On a phone, scroll the keyboard on the x-axis and make it full width of the screen. Thanks for the feedback! > leave the keys that have been used colored like in the original wordle game so there is some visual reference of what was
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by lpnotes 3y ago
Nice job! :)
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by lpnotes 3y ago
Do you mind sharing which browser + iOS version you're using on your iPhone? And is the issue the design or that the music isn't outputting when you try to play?
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by lpnotes 3y ago
Nice! I just checked out their game -- yes, very similar. Would you prefer to play a "super hard" mode with disabled pitch and no backspace (and 8 tiles and only 3 listens), or the option to disable the pitch at any level?
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by lpnotes 3y ago
I am regretting the name choice a little, lol. Originally we just called it "musical wordle" but we didn't want to infringe copyright with "wordle", and we liked the alliteration in PPP. And then I spent a few hours
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by lpnotes 3y ago
> add a 4th color for correct note, wrong octave. I really like this idea! Maybe the 4th color will be pale green (aka you're close) > Another recommendation: make an easy mode in a single octave for practice. Allow progression t
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by lpnotes 3y ago
Thanks for your feedback about the octaves! There is one question that I haven't entirely figured out how to ask but am curious about -- if we let you adjust the octaves, and if you select the correct note but the wrong octave, would y
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by lpnotes 3y ago
Sorry for the confusion here -- you're not the first to ask, but the TLDR is that you can't (right now)! We do hope to allow octave selection in a future "practice" mode where you're not limited to one puzzle a day,
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by lpnotes 3y ago
Ah -- can you share which browser you're on? I hadn't heard of any bugs with instrument selection so far (until your comment). Thanks! > I think the easy mode could be easier - people without perfect pitch need to warm up a bi
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by lpnotes 3y ago
> There should be a hard mode where there are no pitches generated while choosing notes. I challenge you to the "bird_tweet" instrument in "hard" mode, lol. The bird tweet notes are almost indistinguishable it might a
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by lpnotes 3y ago
@aidos Did you try "hard" mode, out of curiosity? If that's still easy, maybe an "impossible" mode with 3 listens, 8 tiles, and no backspaces is something we can do...
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by lpnotes 3y ago
> It seems to adjust octaves for you automatically, but that's not at all clear. Thanks for mentioning it! I really struggled with this octaves decision, and wrote about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=
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by lpnotes 3y ago
Thank you for checking out the game and for the feedback! :) > please let us manually scroll the keyboard Letting people change octaves instead of letting the game pick the right octave for each note was something I really struggled with
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by lpnotes 3y ago
On mobile, the backspace on the piano keyboard should work!
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by lpnotes 3y ago
> I didn’t realize I needed to scroll down to see the keyboard (on mobile) Oof... we'll have to make sure the piano keyboard is more visible earlier in mobile mode :sweat-smile: I'm glad it worked for you in mobile, though! I&
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by lpnotes 3y ago
Thanks for the question! The octave will shift according to the solution note. For example, if the solution was: Bb3 Bb4 Dd5 Db5 C5 Bb4 (the first 6 notes of a "Believer" melody) ... the piano octaves will be [3,4,5,5,4] In today&
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by lpnotes 3y ago
Thank you for the thoughtful comment, @jrajav! We originally just thought of the game as "musical wordle" since we didn't want to infringe on the "wordle" name itself in case there were copyright issues, and PPP see

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