word up gossip

mashman · Post by **mashman** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 7:05 pm

I've seen your name on a few it boxes near me young Vagina....

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 8:19 pm

mashman wrote:I've seen your name on a few it boxes near me young Vagina....

Am I/we still top?

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 9:43 am

ah Mr Bob, it seems you are less wladimir klitschko, more fraudley harrison. but fair play to you for struggling past a herculean 411 in the second game.
when will your management team let you have a real title fight (i.e. against the mighty pseudonym)?

in other news, i had a decent weekend of 4x11, 2x12, 1x13, 1x14 (all new words, none of that QUINTESSENTIAL rubbish) and a new scoring 9 in PIZZICATO. Ernest has the minutiae for website purposes.

the swearingest words are in the pic below. (5 and 6 on the board.)

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 5:15 pm

unknownpseudonym wrote:the swearingest words are in the pic below. (5 and 6 on the board.)

Thanks for giving us the co-ordinates - I might not have spotted those beauties without them - good work!

mashman · Post by **mashman** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 10:47 pm

vaginalbob wrote:
mashman wrote:I've seen your name on a few it boxes near me young Vagina....
Am I/we still top?

Oh yes

I'm pretty good at Word Up with a couple of pals but I always seem to just nick 4/5 quid then leave it without going for the big scores.....

Ernest W. Quality · Post by **Ernest W. Quality** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 12:38 am

Mercenary

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 10:24 am

anyway. i'm gonna claim a new world record for the lowest 11: ASSASSINATE, 154. technically i'm tied with Fotherz at the bottom but after goal difference, everybody knows it goes down to alphabetical order, so i win. also it was on a boat on the mighty Thames so i get (negative) bonus points for that too.

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 10:50 am

unknownpseudonym wrote:anyway. i'm gonna claim a new world record for the lowest 11: ASSASSINATE, 154. technically i'm tied with Fotherz at the bottom but after goal difference, everybody knows it goes down to alphabetical order, so i win. also it was on a boat on the mighty Thames so i get (negative) bonus points for that too.

PS Tattershall Castle?

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 10:55 am

ça y est.

angie · Post by **angie** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 12:14 am

EWQ, belated thanks for updating the 'letters owned' table. To celebrate, I've claimed the top-scoring and longest letter 'L' word by sticking an 'S' onto UPs previous record holder, getting LIQUIDATIONS (408/12) as part of a 1832 solo clearance in The Inn, Bearsden. The only other website entry to report is SQUALLIEST (300) in the same session.

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 11:47 am

good work with LIQUIDATIONS Angie, on a similar vein i had ILLIQUIDITY disallowed the other day which was disappointing. FYRØIET will be unleashed at lunchtime to get that bloody G~.

Ernest W. Quality · Post by **Ernest W. Quality** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 7:57 pm

unknownpseudonym wrote:anyway. i'm gonna claim a new world record for the lowest 11: ASSASSINATE, 154. technically i'm tied with Fotherz

Worstest word-score per length
11: 154 (Fotherz/UP)
12: 228 (VB/EWQ*2/Seda/UP)
13: 260 (EWQ*3/Fotherz/VB)
14: 308 (VB)
15: 405 (UP)
16: 464 (EWQ)
17: 510 (UP)
18: 594 (Fotherz/EWQ)

Therefore I'm the best (i.e. worst (or vice versa)).
I got my 'O' with ONOMATOPOEIAS. Filthy as a plural, but nice word.

PS: solo 2219 today. Third best score ever. Eat my dust Fotherz, Bob and Bob's brother, that clown from Nottingham, Angie, Reaps, Bob on his own, unknown.

Ernest W. Quality · Post by **Ernest W. Quality** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 10:47 pm

Motivated by the thought of how sour UP would be if I beat him in the alphabet game, I decided to foregoe grid-clearage and quid-grabbage to get some more letters out of the way. I singled out one or two particular target words for each letter, that had fairly common component letters.

At the start of the outing I needed JKLWXY (having got 'O' earlier today, see above).

To begin with I thought I'd have a better chance of getting more of the common letters on the old version of the game. However, I was let down by the limited dictionary: JEALOUSNESS and WATERCOOLER were not accepted. In annoyance I switched to the new version:

KETTLEDRUMS and LACERATIONS were comfortably made, but then WATERCOOLER was again disallowed. Thankfully the backup WASHERWOMAN worked, and also YESTERYEARS. But XENOPHOBIAS failed, so I still need JX.

So be warned unknown, I will be going for these over the next few days...

I also got a few nice by-product words on fruitless grids that didn't help the alphabet challenge: ENCYCLOPAEDIA, DEMILITARIZED, and MOTHERFUCKER.

angie · Post by **angie** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 11:21 pm

MOTHERFUCKER?! Who'd have thought it! Big congratulations on 2219 as well EWQ, that's a pretty spectacular score.

Slightly less spectacularly, I got my first 14-letter word today - TRANQUILLISERS (518/14) as ANGIE DOD (players AR/DO'D) in The Counting House.
Also today - QUIZZING in the Counting House and FANATICALLY in The Sir John Moore, both solo.

Ernest W. Quality · Post by **Ernest W. Quality** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 11:33 pm

I have had MOTHERFUCKING on Puzzle Word.