I built a multiplayer Wordle where you win real SOL

I built a multiplayer Wordle where you win real SOL - here's how A few weeks ago I had a simple idea: what if Wordle had real money on the line? The result is WordGuess - a multiplayer word game on Solana mainnet. Every 2 minutes, a new 7-letter word is chosen. Players pay 0.01 SOL per guess. First to guess correctly wins 95% of the prize pool. Fully automated, no custodial wallets, no signups. Here's how I built it and what I learned. The stack Next.js — frontend, deployed on Vercel Supabase — PostgreSQL + Edge Functions + Realtime Solana mainnet — payments and payouts via Helius RPC Phantom / Solflare — wallet connection The core idea: keep the game logic server-side (so the secret word is never exposed), but make payments fully on-chain. How a round works A cron job runs every minute and checks if there's an active round If not - start-round edge function picks a random word from a 632-word dictionary and creates a new round with a 132-second timer (120s gameplay + 10s overlay + 2s