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What if you want to try again on the same board?

Minimum width right now is 500px. Allow the display to shrink down more.

Allow the user to select a range of board sizes from 3x3 up to 9x9. Adjust the instructions and display to accomodate.

In the 12x12 board, only the closest rectangle to a square (3x4 or 4x3) is counting as a winning collection. This is up for debate, but after a bit of play testing, it feels like 2x6 and 6x2 rectangles should also count as winning collections.

Make it pop!

Allow the user to choose the difficulty of the AI opponent. Do this by either varying the search depth (those on slower hardware might like this) or the probably that the AI intentionally makes a mistake. Or both.

Track a devices' win/loss statistics against the computer (separated by difficulty, maybe board size).

Ex: current streak. best streak. win percentage.

Allow user to choose whether to play the AI opponent or another person sharing their device.

Not necessarily with a full server.

Potentially, with a URL parameter containing the hash of the board (for the 4x4 board, easy to represent board in 8 bytes, since each cell takes 2 bits for the color and 2 bits for the number), hash of the cell states (2 bits for each cell), and either position or category info of the last tile. Not as easy as playing together on a server, but players could just send URLs with these parameters back and forth.

Using new URLSearchParams(window.location.search).get(...);

Allow the user to select who goes first. Options:

• Human
• Computer
• Alternate
• Random
• Winner
• Loser

It would be great if it were easy for users to share the game.

The current scheme represents categories with numerals 1, 2, 3, 4 (good) and colors red, blue, green, yellow (hard for red-green colorblind users). Consider using shapes, shading or other indicators for the second category.

Instead of displaying the last tile above the board, make it glow or something.