Initially I thought this would be stupid but here I am trying to figure out the second one.

Are you planning on making mobile apps? Let me know if you want someone to work with.

would be fun little project to create an app that generates the puzzles. input a word like "rain", use word2vec, or something even simpler, to identify associated words and order the words. next challenge would be to sort the generated puzzles by difficulty. i could see it being a very addictive mobile game, with very challenging puzzles being great for multiplayer or sharing with others via SMS, FB to help solve.

Ursine?

Interesting idea... got a name for the game? I'll try it out on my friends. Although making the puzzles might be a challenge in themselves.