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The letters are almost not shuffled initially

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
react, typescript
Domain
frontend

Research direction

No files or tests are named. Start by locating the code for the initial puzzle shuffle and the “randomize” button, then reproduce the linked example to compare their behavior. Done means the initial shuffle no longer leaves phrases nearly unchanged while preserving any intended consistency between page loads.

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Description

Hello!
I noticed that the initial shuffling of the letters in the puzzles is different from what the "randomize" button does, and often it leaves the letters almost untouched. It often makes the puzzles too easy, just obvious.

Example: https://tinyurl.com/t774ktn3
The source phrase starts from "Then there's a phrase that became the title, of course".
After initial shuffling, it becomes "Then theue'r o whuore thot beyome the tstle, ic yigure".
"t", "h", "e", "m", "l" remained the same letters.

If the point of making the initial shuffling different from the "randomize" button is to make it consistent between the page loads (so that everyone gets the "same puzzle"), then using a randomizer with pre-defined seed will do.

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TypeScript
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