diff --git a/src/App.css b/src/App.css
index 2999903..eeb0283 100644
--- a/src/App.css
+++ b/src/App.css
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ body {
   font-size: 20px;
   color: inherit;
   text-decoration: inherit;
-  border: inherit;
+  border: 2px solid transparent;
   cursor: pointer;
 }
 
@@ -76,19 +76,19 @@ body {
 }
 
 .letter-correct {
-  border: none;
+  border: 2px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);
   background-color: rgb(87, 172, 87);
   color: white;
 }
 
 .letter-elsewhere {
-  border: none;
+  border: 2px dotted rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);
   background-color: #e9c601;
   color: white;
 }
 
 .letter-absent {
-  border: none;
+  border: 2px solid transparent;
   background-color: rgb(162, 162, 162);
   color: white;
 }
diff --git a/src/App.tsx b/src/App.tsx
index 5eed5d8..3303798 100644
--- a/src/App.tsx
+++ b/src/App.tsx
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import common from "./common.json";
 import { dictionarySet, pick } from "./util";
 import Game from "./Game";
 import { names } from "./names";
-import { useEffect, useState } from "react";
+import { useState } from "react";
 
 const targets = common
   .slice(0, 20000) // adjust for max target freakiness
diff --git a/src/Game.tsx b/src/Game.tsx
index 11f294a..6e17621 100644
--- a/src/Game.tsx
+++ b/src/Game.tsx
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { useEffect, useState } from "react";
 import { Row, RowState } from "./Row";
 import dictionary from "./dictionary.json";
-import { Clue, clue, clueClass } from "./clue";
+import { Clue, clue } from "./clue";
 import { Keyboard } from "./Keyboard";
 
 enum GameState {
diff --git a/src/clue.ts b/src/clue.ts
index d68bf1e..eeaa94e 100644
--- a/src/clue.ts
+++ b/src/clue.ts
@@ -9,28 +9,20 @@ export interface CluedLetter {
   letter: string;
 }
 
-// clue("perks", "rebus")
-// [
-//   { letter: "p", clue: Absent },
-//   { letter: "e", clue: Correct },
-//   { letter: "r", clue: Elsewhere },
-//   { letter: "k", clue: Absent },
-//   { letter: "s", clue: Correct },
-// ]
-
 export function clue(word: string, target: string): CluedLetter[] {
-  let notFound: string[] = [];
-  target.split("").map((letter, i) => {
+  let elusive: string[] = [];
+  target.split("").forEach((letter, i) => {
     if (word[i] !== letter) {
-      notFound.push(letter);
+      elusive.push(letter);
     }
   });
   return word.split("").map((letter, i) => {
     let j: number;
     if (target[i] === letter) {
       return { clue: Clue.Correct, letter };
-    } else if ((j = notFound.indexOf(letter)) > -1) {
-      notFound[j] = "";
+    } else if ((j = elusive.indexOf(letter)) > -1) {
+      // "use it up" so we don't clue at it twice
+      elusive[j] = "";
       return { clue: Clue.Elsewhere, letter };
     } else {
       return { clue: Clue.Absent, letter };