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The game's word puzzles are not a word scramble-type challenge. The valid answers will preserve the letter ordering, but fill in additional letters around them. e.g., "newspaper", "elbows" are valid answers. And because the letter order is preserved, we require adding at least one extra letter which means all valid answers need to be at least 4 letters long.

Thanks! We thought it was interesting too, but that's probably obvious since we decided to invest the time to develop the game from the that idea ;-)

We'll look into that stop sign issue as it does not sound like the right behavior.

We have tried to make solving the word puzzles into a virtual travel experience. You are following actual routes in the country, show them on maps, while also highlighting the cities, town and landmarks as you reach them. We show images from the locations, route and road signs and interesting city facts of the places along the way. Thus, we would categorize it as also a game about traveling, but maybe there is a stricter definition of that game category that we are not aware of.

GoDaddy has always been doing this. They used to do it by forwarding the search to a company that was just a cloaked subsidiary who would buy it and offer to resell it to you. I guess now this sort of unethical practice can be out in the open for all. Once upon a time you would have to be ashamed of this sort of business practice.