Very exciting

I tried traversing the game with some different scoring systems, based on the distances between letters. Frame 630 seemed like the best one I could find: fish, pen, gun, moon, short, apache, scar, drink

Not really relevant to TASing though, since it didn't take velocity/momentum into account.

Also, looks like there are a lot of duplicate seeds, it's probably safe to assume there are only 256ish seeds.

Could I see the lua script? I tried to find the word in the memory but failed miserably, so I'm curious. I was planning to make a script that automatically went frame by frame to find the best starting point.

There's 0% chance that running a lua would be allowed. However, I am very interested in this lua script and/or finding the best possible frame to start the game on, because that's all we would have to do anyway.