Suggestion: Make guessing more dangerous.

[mborus]

mborus: "hey, I have a suggestion for a rule change of word peril for future events
for today it may be too late."

CodeMouse92 "WHat's that?"

mborus: "the suggestion is that you lose all points gained in your turn by guessing a wrong letter (and pay the penalty, too)
so if you then guess 4 letters but don't know the word, you need to pass or risk more."

CodeMouse92 "I really like that. Def too late to implement this round, but I can do that later! It works better."

mborus: "with that rule change the game would be more dangerous and less like wheel of fortune"

update: timeout should not lose you the amount and maybe every next letter should be worth 100 points more to encourage risk taking

update2: after thinking about this for a bit, no, next letters should not be worth more. keeping control of the board is good enough