I really love the concept and how your dice have letters instead of numbers. I'm a big fan of word games, so it immediately appeals to me.
I think what prevents me from loving the game is the fact that you can roll the dice and not get any words. Not only do I need to wait for the timer to run out, but there's just no fun in losing to pure randomness.
I would prefer it if there's always at least one word that can be spelled, and then replace the timer with a limited number of rounds. e.g. 10 rounds for the player to come up with 10 words and get as high a score as possible. Longer words earn more points and provide more rolls for the next round (same as how you have it currently).
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Thanks. I thought about just making it a fixed number of rounds but I kinda liked the idea of it potentially going on forever. As long as you form words length 5+ you get so many dice that you can almost always form another 5+ word so the strategy is to just keep forming long words for as long as possible.