I did make some modifications to make the game more challenging and fun. Back then, we would start with a blank board and also score 2 letter words. Here, the game gets prefilled with random letters so the game becomes more different each time. No scoring for two letter words. The best thing that I added was the combos. If your letter makes 2 or more words, you will get a multiplier for each subsequent word, so the challenge becomes finding a way to score more combos.

And I also added daily puzzles where you get 5 boards, and you need to find the best spot and best letter that scores the most. You can share the Wordle-like result to your friends.