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This game is great! At first I thought you could only switch cards out with the remaining card in your hand but when I realized that you can switch the positions of cards and even pull from the top of the deck, that's when I really got into it. Being able to draw from the deck is especially genius because with only four cards you could easily think "there was no way I could win this round" but with that one hidden element it feels much more fair, like I have more options and even if I lose I'd blame myself rather than the game.

Yes, that was the first problem I ran into during development. I wanted to avoid dead hands so I worked with the stipulation that each word had to have at least 2 compounds, and the process of finding a big list of compound words and filtering it with that rule in mind was quite time consuming so I couldn't do much better within the time limit I'm afraid.  I'm gonna look into the probabilities regarding possible hands though, thank you for your feedback.