I like this a lot, it's a real brain bending game. The Scrabble-like spatial awareness and spelling strategies alone make this compelling, but it really does feel like a living Scrabble board. I am curious about the distribution of letters dealt to the player, I felt I had to play carefully in order to avoid expending all my vowels. Would love to see how a pro Scrabble player would approach the game. My only critique would be to display the player's letters a bit larger and clearer, though I understand working within ASCII/tile space constraints may make that a tall order, especially considering the scope of the jam. Really well done.
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Thanks for the great feedback! Right now the letter pool is a fixed probability for each letter. It should be ~40% of your letters are vowels, which if you're like me and carelessly make short words with multiple vowels, then you will start to run dry. I do recommend using the spells and items to manage your letters and find more of what you need. In the future I think moving to a system where the odds change based on the letters you are holding could help to make the experience smoother.