Hint button

[hexylena]

I'd like to propose a Hint button for when the article is too difficult. I'm not sure what the best implementation of this would be, but my feeling is that it would choose some words to unhide which would aid in solving the puzzle.

Perhaps it could:

• begin by uncovering short words
  • e.g. all 3 letter words
  • then 4 letter
• or maybe by common words? (e.g. by document frequency) (I suspect this is the worst option though)
• or uncommon ones?

However it worked, it would of course exclude the title word(s).

I'm not sure which would be "most fun" without getting you too close to the result too quickly. I imagine it as a button you hit multiple times to help you get closer without spoiling.

xref #17

[larsgw]

Maybe letting users pick a specific word to reveal (by clicking in the article)? In all cases, it's not just the title word(s) but also their conjugations/variants/etc. which is a bit difficult to check by computer, probably. Stemming probably isn't enough there.

[hexylena]

Ahh that would be interesting, by click. Perhaps that's a better way, though I guess the UX there would require some more thought than a simple button, since you'd be entering a modal interface that you'd need a way to cancel out of