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I really, really enjoyed watching you play my game. You clearly know what making a word game entails and brought real insights. 

To answer a few of your questions:

-  the Priscella who dominates the Leaderboard is my mom. Of all the dozens of games I've made, this is her favourite. She plays every day after she Wordles.  

- I used a dictionary of the 23110 seven-letter words culled from the 172820 word list on Peter Norvig's website. I would be curious to compare it with the one you mentioned.

- Yes, Bingo Buddy handles anagrams. If it wants GALLERY, but you find ALLERGY, you get full credit. It shows you're cool that you thought to ask that.

- I fully recognize that it is not unique enough to compete with similar games. My main goal in making it was to learn how to use a StreamReader to speed up processing large text files. On that measure, it was a success!

- It connects to the theme of "the odds are good" because when the jam started I was reading a book about Scrabble championships that mentioned that the odds of your first seven Scrabble tiles containing a word is 12.6%. I became interested in exploring the mathematics of how those odds would increase if one were allowed a single swap of any number of tiles of your choice. My hunch is that for expert level players, just one swap would make the odds quite good. Allowing a single swap wasn't a fun game for non-experts, though, so I upped it to ten.

It’s genuinely interesting to hear the thought process behind it, and it sounds like you have some passion for this kind of project.

Keep exploring and see where it takes you!

As an aside my parsing of the https://kaikki.org/dictionary/English/index.html data has 64405 7-letter words – I dropped proper nouns and slang to the best of my ability. You can download the word list (sans definition / word type) here