Thanks for the feedback! Originally you were supposed to be dragging the letters around to spell the words so you were physically joining them together and taking them apart. Unfortunately that proved to be too challenging to program in the time allowed so we had to swap last minute. I think the game works better like this but it takes away from the theme a bit.
I agree with you on the timer sound. I think it was originally created with the intention of only playing for a few seconds like with the bomb but we didn't have time to review it.