Quintessence?
If I'm correct and my turn is next, I'm willing to suggest something new. This game is called Hangman for a reason, and I recall traditional versions of this game involve wrong guesses being represented by adding a single penstroke towards drawing a stick-figure. I can visualize such a simple drawing taking six penstrokes to complete, so from now on, how about we start off with six wrong guesses permitted instead of ten?