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I implemented Unlimited Mode, at last. As I said in an earlier update, it was already functional since january but hidden behind a secret link due to the UI not being ready. Occasionally it became available through the main menu because I forgot to turn it off before pushing an update.

I've been working on it for the last few weeks, slowly but steadily, and I finally finished the refactoring required to make it fully work. The user interface should be easy to use on both desktop and mobile, but if you see anything weird, definitely let me know.

The goal of Unlimited Mode is simply to play a game of Spelling Wasp at your own leisure, independent from the dailies. If you're really bored, you can quickly pick up a new game and start guessing away, with no time limits, or even limits on how many words the game can have. Games that are available through the dailies are possible to play here as well, but progress is deliberately not shared.

I also modified other parts of the game to try and improve the experience. Some of these have been live for a few weeks. Here's a non-exhaustive changelog:

• Added Unlimited Mode
• Implemented a way to see the answers for any puzzle, except for the daily
• Added an option to give the Enter and Delete buttons a shape that's easier to hit
• Added a star indicator in the calendar for puzzles where a pangram was guessed, ditto for Unlimited
• Added an option to highlight the last 3 guessed words in the list of guesses
• Fixed a bug where the calendar would appear by default on an empty month, during the first day of the month
• Fixed the scaling of the main menu buttons (but apparently there's still devices that don't like them)
• Added a loading screen for uploading a data file. It appears it doesn't show up on mobile though, and it freezes if you switch tabs while it's working. Your mileage may vary.
• Swapped the font with Comic Sans, with Shantell Sans as the fallback (I might include a way to customize the font)
• You can now make a backup of your saved words, using the functions to download/upload data in the options menu
• Navigation has been improved, your current location is now present in the URL
• Share function now shares a URL that'll take you directly to the relevant game
• Removed the option to swap between chart and guesses list on mobile, now both are always visible
• Fixed other things that I didn't document at all, but the game should be more stable overall

Assuming nothing stupid happens, I'll keep polishing the Unlimited Mode menus, I'll fix other things elsewhere, and then I'll begin work on the fabled Spelling Rush mode. The goal of that mode is to try to get as high a score as possible within the limits that you define. You'll be able to use this to challenge someone else to a spelling duel, but it'll have to rely on trust because there's no server backend involved in Spelling Wasp.

Once that is complete, I'll consider the game pretty much done. I'll perhaps fix issues that show up here and there, and maybe open-source it for people who want to host their own instance of it. Still, if you're inclined to do that right now, you're free to do so, but contact me for instructions because you can't just save the page and make it work.

Having essentially two About sections made the site feel disorganized. I put everything relevant in the About page, and I added a proper Credits section because I felt that was sorely missing. I put a contact method in as well. Do with that what you will.

CRISIS AVERTED!!!!!!! The 2025-07-02 Spelling Wasp daily game did not have a pangram. I engaged emergency mode and fixed that, which also alerted me of a different problem: There were duplicates in the list of daily games, lots of them in fact (184 in total). One of them made it to the live game so I removed it silently... or not so silently anymore since I'm telling you about it. The 2025-05-18 game will now show up in your calendar as a completely new one. If you're a completionist, you'll probably wanna play it.

If the game hasn't updated for you and you still see the "teginpx" game on the 2025-07-02 daily, clear your browser's cache so it'll download all of the game's files again. WARNING: ONLY DELETE THE CACHE, NOT THE STORAGE!!! If you remove everything, you'll delete all your progress too. Use the download function in the game's options and make a backup before doing this anyway.

As an aside, I guess I can tell you about other upcoming things. Work on Unlimited Mode is underway, along with a few other small fixes, including the ability to download your list of saved words, some layout fixes, being able to see the answers to any puzzle if you want, and overall improvements to the user experience.

If you can't wait for that shiny new unlimited mode... here's a secret: it's been available for 6 months, but only through a secret link. You'll find it below. The game itself is fully functional, but there's no way to see your open games yet, so if you wanna look at that, you'll need to use your browser's development tools and dig into the local storage for this site. I can assure you that I'm working on it though. It's taken very long not because of the difficulty, but because I just didn't feel like working on it. There also wasn't a lot of time for programming during the first quarter of the year.

Oh hey, and if you wanna play the removed duplicate daily, type "echilor" in the textbox on the unlimited menu.

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And if you're really bored and wanna guess even more words... try Unlimited Mode now.

I wanted to talk a bit about these two wonderful games and explain why I recommend them. I don't think this warrants a full article since I don't wanna give out a lot of details about them, like I did with Bug Fables.

The section is available in the Games page.

I bit the bullet and set Comic Sans as the default font for the website. Unfortunately it'll only show up if you're browsing from a Windows PC. As a side effect, Comic Neue doesn't look as wide anymore, since I can't set the letter‑spacing property per font.

I also modified the site's title, got rid of the "Amazing" and instead just settled with "Epic". It used to be the former in the site's header and the latter in the tab title, but now it's uniform. I think that's kinda amazing.

I altered the way the page modification timestamp in the footer works. There's now one that tells you the last time the current page was changed, and one that tells you when the whole site was last generated. Still, the epic website feature where you're reading this text from will let you know of any big changes to the site.

Lastly, I made the mobile view fatter. There shouldn't be a ton of wasteful padding on both sides of the screen now.

I added an image that represents the state of this website. One day I'll have something really nice to show the world!!!!!!!!!!!

I wrote this new song for the Blank Contest on the Furnace Discord. The theme for my song is the situation where you're desperately looking for something you need because otherwise you'll be late for whatever you gotta do. It was fun to write. Maybe one day I'll work on that music page on this website...

Listen to the song on YouTube

I finished playing this game 3 days ago and decided that I wanted to write an article on it, in order to hopefully convince others to give it a go. It's truly a unique experience.

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I edited the content of the About page. The big essay that used to be there is now in a different page, and the overall writeup has changed.

Some small color tweaks, a new look for the site's banner, and a "new" background (lies, I recycled the Spelling Wasp background). I didn't want to implement a toggle for the background animation, so I got rid of it entirely.

I slightly edited the way the site looks. There's lots of text shadows now, and the background is darker. I'll probably swap the Epic Shielder floating graphic with something else. Perhaps the Spelling Wasp background?

Also I edited a few things in the Worms Armageddon articles I wrote. Nothing major.

About goddamn time. It used to be just a broken link. Anyway this page gives you a general description of Worms Armageddon, one of my favorite games. There's also information on how to set it up.

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The previous change was an excuse to advertise this game I'm working on. Spelling Wasp is about guessing words, give it a try.

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Now you can see the latest changes I've made to the site. You don't have to guess anymore.