Shrinkle – Shrink words, find hidden phrase

The "how to play" demo animation should show two words to demonstrate the "hidden phrase" feature

I enjoy the concept, and think you could be onto something - but it seemed a bit too easy to be satisfying. I think the path to solving the puzzle is a bit too straightforward. That is, removing a letter one by one WILL get you to the solution, and there’s not enough of a cognitive work-out to figure out the next one to remove.

I don’t have a solution mind you, but having made Stackdown and been on a similar journey, I needed the feedback to get it where it is now.

Keep going!

Oh, also I really like the tidy design.

Feels user hostile that there's no retry button. I can delete browser storage but why...

Fun, but like others have said, felt somewhat easy. Or really, it feels like the gameplay is too short. Maybe you can shrink down a word, then replace it with a longer synonym or something, and repeat? That way you get a couple rounds of gameplay per puzzle.

I was upset I couldn’t keep popping off letters even though I had discovered the “hidden phrase”. Give me the bubble wrap umami and let me continue whittling away until there aren’t any subwords left.

What is the hidden phrase? I suppose ”Plants plans plan pan” can be understood as a grammatically correct phrase, but a really quite odd one. I don’t think that’s what’s intended to be a hidden phrase?

Funny, but a bit too easy, I think. At least, I got a warning when I made an error (my only one), which makes light work of progress. The fact that I had only one error is an indication of the ease (I'm not a native speaker of English), and complex puzzling usually involves backtracking or multiple tries to achieve a single step.