New shuffling features

[Alan W]

Following up on a suggestion made by markm in another topic, There is a new button, labeled "Mix", to allow the letters of a puzzle to be randomly rearranged, except for the mandatory letter, which remains in the middle. The button is under the recently-introduced backspace button, towards the bottom left of the board:



Also, in 7-by-many puzzles, the Shuffle button now functions as it does in other puzzle types. If any letters have been played, all those letters are shuffled.

[Barbaram]

I love it! Thanks Alan!

[auntiemo]

I "stumbled upon" the mix button today.....and wondered how long it had been there.    Thanks Alan....I love it.

[Maudland]

This is fantastic, Alan, thank you.

[TRex]

Also, in 7-by-many puzzles, the Shuffle button now functions as it does in other puzzle types. If any letters have been played, all those letters are shuffled.

Fantastic! Many, many thanks, Alan!

[tpc]

B      R            V      O     
    A                    A           
O      V            R       B

[Katzmeow]

Awesome!  Thanks Alan, you are a whiz.

[mkenuk]

I second everything nice that everyone else has said!

[Jacki]

I love it too. You know what would be extra helpful is if you could play a couple of letters, say ING for arguments sake, and they are on the board and the remaining letters can be mixed. I tried it today with a couple of letters however when I pressed mix they went back down to the fold. If that can't be done it's still an added bonus. Thank you.

[Alan W]

Jacki, what I often do is play all the letters other than I, N, G and use the Shuffle button to mix them up.

[anonsi]

Cool! Is there a keyboard command for Mix?

[Alan W]

Cool! Is there a keyboard command for Mix?

Not yet. Any suggestions about which key?

[anonsi]

Not really. Something on the right would be nice since most other commands are over there. Perhaps 8, so it's not too close to 0, for example.

[Alan W]

OK. The 8 key now runs the Mix function.

[Ozzyjack]

Works like a charm.  Thanks, Alan