Hi there! That's actually exactly how the difficulty works. The further the lane is, the harder the pool of words are. The pools have 3-4 letters, 4-5 letters, 5-6 letters, 6-7 letters, 7-8 letters, and 8-9 letters. So one lane over could be three or four letters where 4 lanes over would be 6-7 letters. Then Every other time you get hit the starting difficulty increases by one. So instead of one lane being 3-4 letters, it's 4-5 letters. I didn't scale the word difficulty by distance but probably will when I revisit the game. Thank you for your feedback, I'm glad you enjoyed it!