ASK HN: I made up a word game back in high school. What do you think of it?

I made up a word game in high school that became popular with my friends - tell me what you think. Basically, you solve for one word. The clues are words that have at least one letter from the word, in order, that have something to do with the word.

As an example, this:

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storm

weather

drip

falling

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would be "rain".

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Another one:

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advanced

expensive

portable

technology

polished

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This one is considerably harder:

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fur

hibernate

claws

latin

brown

omnivores

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