Word Collect UI Ups & Downs

Word Collect had a minor UI update that cleaned up the graphics of a few panels.  

You can now tap to skip the annoying wait between levels while a little meter slowly updated from level X to X+1.  Like you could ever be on a fractional level like 1201.3.  Just go from 1201 to 1202, done. 

You can now tap the extra words on a level to scroll through all those definitions, which is neat, because it used to just accept an odd word and there was no way to ask it why it thought it was a word.  Of course, they come back with "Word Not Found" for most of those odd words anyway, and they added a bug that broke the word wrap on that long list of extra words fails, so the list just zooms off the screen, so you can't see most of them at all.


7/21 update:

Oddly, after mentioning the little update of Word Collect where we can now view definitions for all the Extra Words but the word wrap was broken, yesterday afternoon it went back to the old layout: word wrap is back, but they are unclickable.  But Google Play said the last update was June 21.  I have v1.254.  What an odd thing to roll back.  Just fix the word wrap.  

 



Comically, while trying to get a screenshot of that, I saw that their page that described which words are valid clearly says that PRE is not a word ... except that they totally accept PRE as a word.  That's one of the big issues with online word games: deciding what dictionary to use or which words are valid.  They say you can email them to ask to add or remove words, which is going to make a mess of any word list.  For eaxmple, the word TIT is blocked but both TEAT and TEATS are fine.

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