The game works well on mobile devices too. iPad has the best experience :)
I just tweaked the font of the "Or just use your name" to be less gray, hopefully that makes it stand out a bit more.
One issue: Sometimes I want to start with some letter, but the game only marks the second letter, rendering the selection incorrect. Might be due to my computer being busy with some simulations though.
I think what's happening is you're typing in a few letters of one word, then moving on to the next word with a new letter that's not adjacent to the previous ones. Typing a letter that's not adjacent causes the word to fail, and that letter won't be part of the next word. So if we had a 3x3 board
A B C D E F G H I
And I typed ABC GHI, it would only count HI since G was part of the failing word ABCG.
This is how it's supposed to work, but it can get a little trippy some times. If what I explained is not what's happening, and it's just not picking up the first letter in a normal case, let me know!
Makes me think again about updating my game, the original Word Wars (http://www.impulsedriven.com/ww) to the web...
I'd really be interested to hear how the dictionary parser was done.
He might be unaware that letters need to be inline. I ran into that at first when I thought I could use any of the letters on the board whether they were adjacent or not. Once I learned the mechanics, it stopped 'acting buggy'.
But at least it makes me feel better about how bad I am at these word games ;)
I've got 155, and then it is replaced by 147
