guessing / trial & error required to solve puzzles?

[default_loser]

Figured I would ask just to make sure I'm playing this game right...I came into this game as a huge fan of games like Picross and Hexcells, where every move you make is logical and done without guessing.

On the easier puzzles in Lexica I felt like I could do this most of the time, but perhaps I was just making educated guesses, and guessing right most of the time. Now that I'm about halfway through the medium puzzles, I feel like there's a lot of trial and error, in that I make a word in spaces where I can't think of any others and then see if other words then fit.

It's hard to explain, but not having the confidence there makes it feel less like an accomplishment when you solve the puzzle. Am I not playing this right? Can all of the puzzles be solved without any guessing like this, like in the other games I mentioned? Or is it just a fundamental part of how this game is played, and it's not so much my thing?

[The King Possum]

some words are unusual, most are common. the game does get extremely hard. there are "spoilers," as in the puzzles are posted already done, in the community guide section. pretty much it is trial and error. this game is meant for the sharp mind that can see all the words scrambled up and decode them. I got half way through the medium and then used help the rest of the way. I have started over in hope of doing it with no help,aside from what I remember from the first play throuigh, which isn't much. I've never played those games you mentioned.

[default_loser]

Thanks for the feedback. Yeah I would just run into too many puzzles where there were multiple lines that could be more than one word, and I would have to just try them to see if they worked out. It got kind of tedious, and I didn't really feel that sense of accomplishment you get after completing a puzzle that you worked out through logic.

By the way, if you have a Nintendo DS, definitely check out Picross and Picross 3D. Hexcells and its two sequels are on Steam and very reasonably priced, and are honestly probably the best puzzle games I've ever played.