Word Groups

Opening

Sixteen words, four hidden categories of four, three mistakes allowed before the puzzle ends — this is a clean, well-executed implementation of the now-familiar group-the-words format, built with Next.js and Tailwind rather than tied to any particular publisher's app.

A build that had to be fixed to load at all

The published static export didn't work out of the box. Next.js, by default, assumes an app will be hosted at the domain root, and bakes every JavaScript chunk and stylesheet reference into the HTML as a root-absolute /_next/... path — once installed under a subpath here, every one of those requests 404'd and the page never rendered anything but a blank shell. Rather than hand-patching individual file paths, this was fixed the correct way for a Next.js project: rebuilding with the framework's own basePath export option set to match where the game actually lives, which correctly rewrote every asset reference in one pass.

Controls, confirmed properly

With the game actually loading, its core interaction — tap a word to select it, select exactly four, then submit — was tested against live page state rather than a screenshot. Four words were selected with real touch taps on a simulated phone, and the Submit button was confirmed to switch from disabled to enabled only once the fourth selection landed, matching the rules exactly. Tapping Submit was then confirmed to register the guess correctly: the on-screen mistake counter visibly decremented from four dots to three, exactly the behaviour a wrong guess should produce. The identical sequence — select four, submit, watch the mistake counter update — was repeated with real mouse clicks on desktop with the same result.

Presentation

The grid is legible and the selected/unselected tile states are easy to distinguish at a glance, which matters for a puzzle that's entirely about tracking your own selections. It's a plain, functional interface without much visual flourish beyond that, and there's no sound to speak of — appropriate for a quiet word puzzle, if unremarkable.

Final Verdict

A faithful, correctly-behaving implementation of a well-liked puzzle format, confirmed to handle touch selection and submission correctly after a genuine build-configuration bug was fixed for this review. It won't surprise fans of the format, but it plays exactly as it should on both a phone and a desktop. Recommended.