There’s a Japan-only game for the Sega Game Gear called Kinetic Connection that plays similarly but involves rearranging a scrambled picture rather than moving colored blocks into a pattern.

https://segaretro.org/Kinetic_Connection

“Game 3” is the mode that rotates rows and columns like a Rubik’s Cube.

There are probably earlier examples, but that’s the one that I’m familiar with. I imagine a clever person could adapt it into a simple word game as well. Old computer and console games are a gold mine for ideas for simple puzzle games.

The hard level is the same thing as The Nowotnik Puzzle, a ZX Spectrum game from 1983.

https://www.emulatorgames.net/roms/zx-spectrum/nowotnik-puzz...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTLeI5QS8Qw

I was developing a similar game in Unity but decided to go further and add portals, rotations, splitting and other mechanics. Unfortunately, I have never managed to polish it (those 20% that take 80% of time, duh). I hope one day someone will implement something similar.