Thank you for the positive and very detailed feedback! I would definitely like to continue working on this game after the jam finishes, and this feedback is definitely helpful. Hopefully with time I can increase the visual appeal of the game / text.
I have a few more ideas for informing users about what tiles they like to be next to / what they are called, but the tips / score system were added with the time I had to hopefully make it easier to pick up this game as a jam game. Score system being wrong is something I will have to look into more, as there was minimal playtesting done during development of it.