Among minor, user experience-related improvements, like showing a reminder if you forget to use teleport-swaps in Showdowns, the version 1.3 of Words of Yendor introduces a new variation to hangman puzzles, encountered at Suspicious Accidents.

Starting from the 4th settlements, instead of trying to guess just a single word, an almost randomly selected verse from a 19th century poem will have to be solved. But, be careful, in these puzzles a tier-1 letter (the most common letters in English words) can only be submitted as guess after making 2 successful guesses with a higher tier letter.

For example, in a 4th, 5th, or 6th settlement a Suspicious Accident might start like this:

Notice while you can see the word distributions, none of the letters are revealed at the start and you only have 3 opportunities for a miss before your health suffers. The purple lock icons indicate that tier-1 letters are not available at the moment, but you'll also get a reminder as tooltips.

Here, after successfully submitting H and L, a single opportunity to submit a tier-1 letter was unlocked, and the choice of E has revealed some useful hints.

Finally, the verse was successfully solved, and the poem's title and author were also shown.

Since there are more than 3200 verses in the game's database, you'll encounter some inspiring, poignant, or thought-provoking lines, and in every case, the solution will reveal the poem's title and author.

I hope you'll enjoy this variation in these puzzles.

Cheers,
Sandor