Hi Alex, In your situation it looks like the letters for CONE aren't in the right order. the "E" isn't touching the "C". They need to touch each other in order. Normally the game would take care of moving the letters around for you, but I think some of them might be blocked in (or can't be moved without locking it).
Locked tiles are visually denoted by being darker than unlocked tiles. So the ones your mom sees as a darker color are locked. Hope this helps, Kwasi On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for taking the time to write that out. The tutorials make sense > now, but as I play an actual game I find myself getting lost. Here's an > example of a game I'm playing against the Medium Marge AI: > I tried to make the word 'cone". E is in a2, C is in b2, N is in c3, and O > is in d2. I tapped all four, in order as you told me on Twitter, and the > game said it was "moving tiles", then that it could not make the word. What > happened? No tiles are locked, so what is it trying to move things for? Why > would making the word fail since all four are touching? > > On a side note, what visually denotes a locked tile? I am trying to show > my mother, who loves word games, this app. She is not sure what I mean by > "locked" and is also not sure why some tiles are darker colors than others. > > On Jan 16, 2014, at 2:26 PM, Kwasi Mensah <kwasi.men...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Christina, > > Thanks so much for the kind words! A letter starts of as a player 1 or > player 2 letter when it drops down at the start of your turn. At the start > of player 1's turn 5 player 1 letters drop down and at the start of player > 2's turn 5 player 2 letters come down. I hope that clarifies. > > Kwasi > > > On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Christina C. <blindmaclo...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> That is awesome! I think I get it now. The written guide as well as the >> video tutorial helped it all make sense. I think I will try a game now. :) >> One quick question though. How do tiles become player one or player two >> tiles? Is it the five tiles at the start of your turn that become your >> tiles? I hope that question make sense. I understand a tile becomes yours >> if you steel it but I just wondered how the tiles start out as belonging to >> a particular player. :) >> >> Thanks so much for making this app accessible and taking the time to >> explain and show us how to play. I love word games but accessible games >> that we can play with others are very few, in fact, I am unaware of any, >> except for hanging with friends. >> >> Again, Thanks so very much for all of the hard work, >> Christina >> >> On Jan 16, 2014, at 11:32 AM, Kwasi Mensah <kwasi.men...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> Hi viphone, >> >> A lot of people asked for a SpellStack walkthroughs. You can find >> video/audio walkthroughs at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE3UAWTiWq0(for >> Beginner tutorials) and >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh_dmCaTlrU (for advanced tutorials). 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