Playing in the browser, there is a new game setting, Sentence Text Initially Hidden, which I have long requested. This means you can now attempt to translate the entire sentence in your mind before focusing at the cloze at hand. Thank you very much, @mike !
There is a glitch though: the buttons to switch to multiple choice and to show the first letter are not disabled; pressing either button leads to a blank page.
Thanks for letting us know! This should now be fixed. Please let us know of course if not or you notice any other issues.
I just noticed this setting today and love it! I’d love to see it in the app.
Thank you so much, @mike, for adding this functionality, and @morbrorper, for telling us about it! I’ve switched to using this setting exclusively, and I’m not going back. 
I really like the way this setting lets me (1) start with a simulation of the real-world experience of having to come up with an entire sentence from scratch, knowing only what I want to say in my own language, and then (2) brings me back to the traditional cloze format with the press of a single button. That combination is really powerful. It has the following advantages, not all of which may be immediately apparent:
It gives me the opportunity to come up with non-cloze words before seeing them. Prior to this, I often was in the frustrating situation of seeing a non-cloze word that I wasn’t sure I would have remembered on my own, an occurrence that would upset the spaced-repetition principle of only being reminded of a word when I’ve actually forgotten it.
It gives me the opportunity to guess a cloze word without seeing the text box that tells me how long the word is. (You might think that I could simply choose not to use the option that makes text box size dependent on the length of the word. However, given how often a cloze can be filled with multiple valid possibilities, only one of which will be accepted, I need to enable both length-dependent text boxes and typing color hints, or I’ll end up submitting something that is correct but will be rejected.)
It lets me cross over to the cloze display easily, whenever I want, so I don’t waste time as I would if I had to wait for a timeout before the transition occurred, or if I had to press some complicated sequence of keys.
I do have one suggestion. In addition to providing the Enter key as an alternative to pressing the “eye” button that brings up the cloze format, could you consider making the space key do the same? I often find myself pressing the space key, assuming it will have that effect, but instead it takes me to the bottom of the page (which is never something I want to happen). The thing about the Enter key is that using it when the cloze is displayed indicates that I don’t know the word (since I have the “enter submits empty” option enabled). So in order to avoid the possibility of incorrectly saying that I don’t know the word, I need to always think twice before pressing the Enter key. It would be nice if I could always use the space key, which would either bring up the cloze format (if I’m in the translation-only screen) or harmlessly type a space into the cloze box (if I’m in the cloze screen). I hope that makes sense.
Thanks again!
@mike, that’s a very useful option! Thank you! Would it be possible to add it also to the phone app? And since we’re talking about it, would it also be possible to add “Ignore all” button in the app? At the moment we can only ignore one particular sentence, there’s no possibility of ignoring all similar clozes at once. I’m using IOS app, if it matters.