[ComputerGuru]

If my wife and I want to challenge ourselves, we'll start with the solution to the previous puzzle as our first guess.

[blakeburch]

We do the same. It makes the puzzle have variety while still allowing healthy competition since we're always starting with the same word.

[ZeroGravitas]

This reduces the impact of randomness, which is a good thing I think. It's too easy for choice of first word to dictate the result.

[Affric]

My group chat does this and I think it leads to the best possible results in terms of fairness.

[kilbuz]

You might like Hurdle, which is a play on this idea.