it's a solid concept and looks and plays nicely, but you might want to experiment with the number of words and categories maybe and also what the categories can be?
there were 3-4 categories that were super obvious and then I ended up with around 15 latin words that I just didn't know and couldn't really do anything with so my playthrough ended with feeling the game was too hard and too easy at the same time. I would have preferred the challenge to be finding out what the categories could actually be instead of just needing to know complicated words, but maybe that's because I am not a native english speaker.
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Most of the time I spent programming. The word list and categories were a bunch of randomly generated lists. In the real 'Connections' they are actually puzzling words. Like there was one where the category was all words were spelled using roman numerals like 'DILL', I didn't have time to do that.
Thanks for playing the game though, it is greatly apprecioated.