As of today, old scores will start "expiring" after a long while so that the high scores will be more dynamic. This was always intended, as the HexAddict help refers to them as "the best recent scores from all players around the world".
The expiring age of scores will be tweaked a bit over the next few days until we find a happy medium.
World Scores change
World Scores change
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