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Puzzle game
Raised as a usability problem by 15 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2009–2025), in 6 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Puzzle game, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 14 complaints
- Clunky mechanics made correct solutions fail without clear feedback, wasting time2025-04-15
- Commenter can't easily parse the top-level clue structure2025-04-10
- Keyboard misplaces clicks often and gives no haptic feedback2025-04-09
- Keyboard input is hard to use and feels terrible2025-04-08
- Game uses a fixed QWERTY keyboard instead of the device's AZERTY layout2025-04-08
- Must move mouse to bottom-right corner to change rotation direction, which is irritating2022-11-23
- Long-pressing to mark cells is a usability failure; users keep tapping instead2022-11-23
- Can't see which symbol is underneath the dog or bunny, hard to remember2022-09-18
- Unclear what the player is supposed to do2022-09-18
- Symbols are hard to see when animals sit on them2022-09-18
- Confusing UX: unclear that two animals can share a spot and how to pick2022-09-18
- Not clear that the characters can be dragged, and scrolling seems broken2022-09-18
- The "Solved!" message is too small, so players struggle to notice it2015-06-02
- Can't find how to reach level 252009-07-10