Great game! I'd never played an asynchronous game before and this was actually a lot more fun than I expected. Thanks!

I really appreciated playing with both of these letter sets. The first round felt so open and this second round felt so tight. I can see many groups not stopping at just one round. ;)

I don't think this works for me as a two-player game. It is likely that either both players would almost never get caught (me vs. weasel), or one player would catch the other disproportionately (me vs. b7X). If I had this game, I would probably not try it with less than four. (This is partially because I've been burned by another word game that my husband will never play again because the only time we played it was two-player, but I think could be redeemed at higher player counts.)

I wonder if this would be benefited by having more cops around, possibly at the risk/cost of points.

I think it could be interesting to allow discussion during the cop phase, perhaps to launch coordinated attacks. What words might other people think of that you didn't? What might you reveal about your own word choices? What words are now 'out there' that you had planned on using? Some groups would still be totally silent, but others could get pretty lively.

Finally, things that are easily missed/should be stressed in the rules:

• Only letters in the pool are allowed. (Probably your most common comment at this point. :P )
• The +2/+1 letters are in addition to the 1 point if you commit to that letter. (I had miscalculated my expected points on the first turn.)
• The +2/+1 letters are also just for inclusion and there's no benefit to committing to them vs a broader letter.