How it works:
Find 15 words from a category (like "Stone Fruits," "US States," or "Dog Breeds") as fast as you can. Once you meet the 15 word minimum, you can play for as long as you want.
Each letter shows how many target words start with it (A¹ = one word starts with A, N² = two words start with N)
That small ² in the bottom-right? Multi-word answers allowed. For "US States" with N², both "NEW YORK" and "NORTH DAKOTA" count
Unlimited guesses, 2 hints, and a shuffle button to reorder by frequency.
Example: Category: US States | Letters: A¹ M¹ N² S² Answers: ALABAMA, MONTANA, NEW MEXICO, SOUTH DAKOTA
If you're into Connections or Strands, this scratches a similar itch but with a deduction twist.
* WARNING: SPOILERS *
* It is confusing when you are trying to find 15 words but then the 's top right number shows 23 and you are told that this means 23 answers start with R. If you have to have 15 out of X answers, I want to know the full set of words that there are 23 R words in. * After finding my fifth word, that answer was added below the puzzle and it cause the whole UI to relayout which was quite jarring. This kept happening as I added more answers. * You call the bottom right number the "superscript" which is confusing to me. Superscript is always above the character and subscript is always below it. * I typed in mayonnaise and was told it was wrong but tried mayo and it was right. I don't want to have to think of all variations of a thing spelled regionally or colloquially (ketchup > catsup) that are the same exact thing. * For condiments, it seems egregious that salt and pepper aren't right but every variation of salad dressing flavors and type of gravy are correct. * I don't really see the point of the numbers at all. It isn't like you can do any deduction since you are finding some very small subset from the list of legal answers. I'd much rather there was a curated list of exact 15 words and you have to find them from the set of all possible answers you can think of. Right now it is an exercise of name as many R foods as you can think of, repeat for each letter.
There are some glitches.
For some reason the size of the grid increased periodically, but I couldn't understand why.
There is inconsistency in the answers. As another commenter mentioned, Ireland was not included. The answers also included both East Timor and Timor-Leste, but these are the same country. Also it seems that Timor-Leste was counted as three words.
Might want to include some kind of ASCII comparison as many people aren't going to type "São Tomé and Príncipe" out.
The hints don't seem to take account of what answers have already been guessed, which makes them useless in many cases. People are probably most likely to ask for a hint when they just have a few left they can't think of; in that case it's kind of crucial that the hint actually be a hint for one of the ones they haven't already gotten.