Incorporation of shuffle and pass-n-play to letterwheel

Repository

https://github.com/Fendrian/letter-wheel

Components

Letter wheel is an Android mobile game application. As the name implies, "letter wheel" the game is a word like games which few letters will display on a 3x3 grid and the player will be hunting for words that can correlate.

The game is easy to play but involves some brainstorming because the center letter on the grid must appear in every hunted word, the graphics of the game is cool and does not have much of features. I have been enjoying the game at my leisure time, and I must admit it has been keeping me from getting bored at some point.

However, I encounter a few challenges playing the game which is one of the reasons I want to propose these suggestions.
All the letters on the grid are static, and it seems difficult thinking on the same look over and over and a feature I think should be added in the future releases of the project.

Proposals

For better comprehension and for more pleasure to play, I propose the implementation of shuffle and pass-n-play.

Shuffle is a function that will allow random movement of every letter on the grid to interchange whenever the shuffle is initiated.
E.g.when the letters of a new game appear on G, H, S, T, O, S, Y if this function is used, it will change how the letters are being set to Y, G, T, H, O, S, S. this will be the continuous behavior whenever the function is initiated, but the center letter will remain static since other letters are depending on it.

I do not think this will be a bit of a hassle, thinking technically, it can be achieved by adding the function at the right side of the game interface for users to utilize.

Pass-n-play
This function will support two or more people to play the game using one device.
It can be incorporated with the timing function or as an additional function, which there will be a column to input names of players and when the game starts, player one will have 1min or 2min to hunt for a word as well as to earn a point.
Then it will be passed to other players, the same time will apply to all players, and it will continue like that till the ultimate time for the game.
The score earned will indicate the winner of the game. If a player could not get a word within the time frame; a word will be generated by the system and give the player 0 points.

Mockups

Image below shows how the shuffle function will look like if implemented and how it reacts on the letters.

How the pass-n-play feature can be incorporated on the menu, displaying a page to input player name.

Image below shows how earned point will be displayed while playing the game.

Benefits

The shuffle function seems minor but will have much impact when using.
Currently, it gets really tiring as all letters are static on the application and tend to be difficult to hunt word properly, this function will help the thinking capability of users.
It will give little sight on the next word to hunt, showing which alphabet should be the first and how to set words properly.
The pass n play will be another and added fun for users to engage in words hunting, in a more challenging way, it will serve a group entertainment game for more people to get along.

These are the features I consider needed on the application after using for several weeks.

Thank you!!!

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