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Cool! I love this kind of intuitive exploratory visualizations.

I wonder how it could be done for my 5x5 letter wordle variant https://squareword.org. Technically you would need 25 small alphabets, one for each letter. But that seems tricky to fit on a screen in such a visually pleasing way. Will have to look into if there would be a better way :)

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Some advice: you may want to improve the instructions of the game. There's no clear indication of what to do when the first 5-letter word has been typed - it merely bumps the word if you type more letters, or shows a cryptic message "Type your guess on the keyboard to begin!" if the square is clicked.

As for visualizations, you may want to take a look at mathematical relations [1]. Each cell is a variable with the alphabet as its domain (which is pruned as you guess correct values), and the words are 5-arity relations between rows and columns. You may represent the local relations surrounding the cell pointed by the mouse.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relation_(mathematics)#Represe...

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