The game is sufficiently solvable as a 5-by-5 map without any concern for the words in each cell. Generally, it’s more interesting to study the actual gameplay

The game is sufficiently solvable as a 5-by-5 map without any concern for the words in each cell. Generally, it’s more interesting to study the actual gameplay around word association than to study the optimal winning strategy. There is some room to study whether the association between words could further optimize the naive approach. Another enjoyable side strategy involves optimizing for the opponent’s strategy.