Make Daily Word feel like a focused mobile app screen, not a page with a keyboard.
* True viewport: while view==='play' && game==='word', a $effect locks body scroll
and hides the site footer (mobile only), so the keyboard is genuinely pinned, not
riding the document scroll. Effect cleanup ALWAYS removes the class on re-run or
unmount, so leaving /play (back button OR any navigation) can never strand it.
* Keyboard restyled on-brand + modern: flat off-white (--surface) keys with a
hairline border, soft 11px radius, no heavy raised shadow, ~46px tall, ↵ / ⌫
glyphs, centered (max-width 430) instead of a full-bleed beige slab.
* Tiles now size to fit BOTH width and the height left above the keyboard
(--tile = min(cap, width/cols, (100dvh-budget)/rows), gap 4px), so the active row
and keyboard are always visible — Long Word's 6×7 gets slightly smaller tiles.
Real-device Safari/Chrome is the final check (100dvh + safe-area handling).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Mobile polish for the games.
* New flow: Play Hub → Game Selection → Game. The 5/6 (word) and S/M/L (search)
pickers move OFF the game screen onto a selection screen that shows each
option's today-status. Back-button reads "Game Selection" in a game and
"Play Hub" on the selection screen — buys vertical room for the keyboard.
* Daily Word on mobile now fills the height: the board scrolls in the middle and
the keyboard is pinned at the bottom, always reachable (no scrolling down to
type). Desktop stays inline.
* Keyboard restyled on-brand: warm cream keys (was cool generic grey), the label
font, an accent-tinted Enter, and the same green/gold/grey feedback as the
tiles; full-bleed, tactile press, safe-area aware.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per Codex's v2 hardening. The GET /api/puzzle/word response no longer carries
the answer at all — guesses POST to /api/puzzle/word/guess and the server
returns the colour pattern, computed against the day's answer. The answer (and
the "why") are revealed only once solved or the guesses are spent. This removes
the "open DevTools, read the answer" issue without pretending to be a fortress
(a deliberate crafted request can still peek; there's no leaderboard or prize,
so that's fine). Client keeps local progress/stats; dict validation stays
client-side. Trade-off accepted: each guess needs the API (the site already
depends on it for today's content).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The variant-watch $effect read `loading`, but load() flips `loading` false at
the end — which re-fired the effect, which called load() again, forever. The
board never rendered. Effect now tracks ONLY `variant`, so it loads once on
mount and once per variant toggle.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A calm /play space — "after the brief, a small thing to enjoy." Framework-ready
for more games (Word Search next; zen/coloring later).
* Daily Word (5 letters / 6 guesses) + Long Word (6 / 7) — same Wordle mechanic,
Upbeat Bytes flavor (no "Wordle" in the UI). Hopeful answers; after solving, a
one-line "why this word matters."
* LLM proposes, code disposes: answers are picked deterministically by date-seed
from a hand-curated hopeful pool that's pre-validated ⊆ the guess dictionary
(always typeable), avoiding recent repeats; the LLM only adds the optional
"why" (with fallback). daily_puzzles(date, game, variant, payload) stores them
so everyone gets the same daily; the cycle pre-generates with the "why".
* Bundled guess dictionaries (words-5/6.json, ~12.6k/22.4k) for client-side guess
validation — never the LLM. Answer lightly obfuscated (base64) in the payload.
* Private, gentle stats (played/solved/streak, guess distribution); spoiler-free
emoji-grid share. No leaderboard, no timer, no streak-loss drama.
* Play in the bottom nav (replacing Browse, still on the lane rail) + the header.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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