• ✓No multiple choice: the moment three options appear it stops being recall and becomes recognition
• ✓The player marks themselves, because only they know whether the word arrived first
• ✓Graded hints: the category first, then the opening syllable
• ✓Anything not recalled goes back into the deck six cards later rather than being dropped
• ✓Draws on the 285 vocabulary cut-outs that already exist — no new art at all
• ✓Say the name aloud on reveal, through lib/speakplanned

✓ = done · ☐ = planned. Every game is built one step at a time like this.