Sometimes I breeze through them, and sometimes I get stuck and have to come back.

I recommend hitting the shuffle button when you get stuck, it can help think of words in other contexts. I also recommend hitting the shuffle button immediately at the start before looking at the board, because they seem to place the words in a way that tricks you. I'm not sure if that's actually wise, but it seems to work for me 😄

lol me too. I win maybe 50% after playing ~20 games

I don't know, I personally fail most of them if there's no obvious connection, I get stuck when I have 3 words out of 4 and then lose all my "lives"

I feel like you have to be native in English for these

Honestly it doesn't usually take me very long. Maybe 5 minutes usually. I do occasionally get a harder one that I'll come back to multiple times throughout the day, or have to play around in Copilot trying to rearrange different possibilities. But that's relatively rare.