'GREAT WORDS' Score Board

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 10:46 pm

Ernest W. Quality wrote:It is a true skill game after all.

Yeah - that'll be why my solo high score is about 3 times bigger than yours, Ernest.

Ernest W. Quality · Post by **Ernest W. Quality** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 11:33 pm

And why you are the only one who's played it more than once.

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 10:15 am

davejon wrote:Hi sorry, been away on holiday so haven't been playing for a while, no word up machines in Gatwick Airport.... whats that all about???

Anyway had a little go on my lunch hour today, on a machine where the longest word was QUEEREST and the high scores 1050 to 600. Thought yes bit of cash coming here, £1 was at 1850, unbelievable for a machine that didn't even have an 8 letter word on it!

welcome back DJ.
btw i'm not maths postgrad but, by my calculations, QUEEREST does have eight letters.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 11:04 am

Ernest W. Quality wrote:And why you are the only one who's played it more than once.

Because I'm outstandingly excellent in every respect, obv.

davejon · Post by **davejon** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 12:11 pm

unknownpseudonym wrote:
davejon wrote:Hi sorry, been away on holiday so haven't been playing for a while, no word up machines in Gatwick Airport.... whats that all about???

Anyway had a little go on my lunch hour today, on a machine where the longest word was QUEEREST and the high scores 1050 to 600. Thought yes bit of cash coming here, £1 was at 1850, unbelievable for a machine that didn't even have an 8 letter word on it!
welcome back DJ.
btw i'm not maths postgrad but, by my calculations, QUEEREST does have eight letters.

Thats what I meant that there wasn't even an 8 letter word Queerest was the longest, but the main essence was not the maths it was the 1850 to get £1

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Fri May 12, 2006 10:26 am

at the victory in marylebone yesterday, a virginal machine so i figured there'd be some 11+es available.

i got up to 17 of a 19 before time beat me (~AL wasn't allowed but ~ALLY would have been). i'm on your tail Fotherz.
also DISCOLOURATION was disallowed and i'm not prepared to omit the entirely necessary U for a 13.
was there for about an hour and the only thing i have to show for it is SECRETARIES which is just about adequate.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri May 12, 2006 11:17 am

unknownpseudonym wrote:i got up to 17 of a 19 before time beat me (~AL wasn't allowed but ~ALLY would have been)

Not fair - you've got the word list

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Fri May 12, 2006 11:30 am

everbody's mother wrote: life's not fair

fotherz · Post by **fotherz** » Tue May 16, 2006 7:53 pm

unknownpseudonym wrote:i got up to 17 of a 19 before time beat me

What word was that then?

I ran out of time typing in MISUNDERSTANDINGS (17) just 10 minutes before hitting INCONSEQUENTIALLY (17).

Destiny.

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Wed May 17, 2006 1:27 pm

not telling you the word until i get it.
incidentally i am rather pleased that the best word is now what i consider to be a 'proper' word. i know i am a semantic snob/linguistic pedant but QUINTESSENTIALLY doesn't actually mean anything, in fact by its nature it can't mean anything. as you all know the greeks had earth, wind, fire and water. early alchenists considered that there may be a fifth element which they tagged QUINTESSENCE from which unlikey extensions sprang.
it was later mooted that fire may actually be made from both fire and plasma. but in any case a word meaning "in the manner of an imaginary state of matter which has never existed except in theory" is not a word in my book.
anyway TRANQUILLIZING topped that but i prefer the English spelling although i will concede that this is a bona fide word.
but no arguments with INCONSEQUENTIALLY which near enough describes this post. nb INC...~ALITY is not allowed, you have to revert to a 13 letter word.
here endeth the lesson.

Ernest W. Quality · Post by **Ernest W. Quality** » Wed May 17, 2006 1:45 pm

unknownpseudonym wrote:"in the manner of an imaginary state of matter which has never existed except in theory" is not a word in my book.

Godly?

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Wed May 17, 2006 2:12 pm

i see your point Ernest but i'm as bigoted as i am pedantic.
besides, regardless of faith, godly can only be used in reference to something that is held to exist. anyway i rose to your bait.

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 12:13 pm

RAPSCALLIONS wasn't allowed on the gamesnet cabinet.
i am reliably informed it is okay on the new update. cah.

jonesey · Post by **jonesey** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 10:22 pm

If I can avoid the usual male trap of boasting about length, I had an aesthetically pleasing PELLUCID (unusual word structure quite apart from the attractiveness of the word itself) followed by EXTORTIONATE (sentimental attachment for me as first word I realised you could set words up) as a first word, and the feminine MILLIONAIRESS (couldn't quite manage the plural).

Of course - not competing with DaveJon et al's standards - but, as much fun as I've had in 15 minutes, at least since Emma Bunton's got serious with some fellow.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 11:00 pm

Good work, Jonesey. Is your scoreboard name 'JONESEY'?