midnights / word-association game engine

A small self-hosted engine for playing word-association party games with friends over a shared link. Two teams, one grid of words, one person per team who knows which words belong to whom. Nothing to install.

Built for a regular Friday game that kept outgrowing paper cards. It is a hobby project and is not affiliated with any published game.

What works

Board generation, seeded shuffles, a spectator view.

What does not, yet

Reconnecting mid-round, custom word packs, anything on a phone in landscape.

What it will never have

Accounts, e-mail, analytics. A room is a link and it expires.

1. Board generator, second pass. Word frequency buckets, so a grid stops mixing obscure nouns with obvious ones.
2. Seeded shuffles. Same seed, same grid — makes a disputed round reproducible.
3. First playable version. One room, no persistence, hard-coded word list.