two big flaws: first, the limited selection of answers in the autofill narrows things down immensely; it's hard to feel particularly accomplished if you start typing "fleetwood mac" and there's only a single song by them to choose from

moreover, there's no potential for strategic guessing to gain information, additional seconds just get parceled out regardless of what you say (or if you skip). once you lose that, all yr wordle 'homage' has left is wanting people to tweet about it