word up gossip

tka · Post by **tka** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 11:22 am

Very impressive guys, well done!

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 9:24 am

a herculean effort, bravo sirs.

Ernest W. Quality · Post by **Ernest W. Quality** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 1:14 pm

The Turl Bar, Oxford:

Demmerz · Post by **Demmerz** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 3:40 pm

Not entirely sure why there are six characters for the score. A piss-take?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 8:38 pm

Just remembered - we saw a 'HYENA' score on Christ Church's machine in Oxford.

(Also 'HULLHULL's at UCL)

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 1:33 pm

I can't remember the last time I went on a word-up machine in London that didn't already have a 'Hyena' in the high-scores. If there were a prize for most machines played on, I think Hyena would win it.
Congratulations on breaking 2000, VB. That truly is an amazing achievement.
With words of 600+ and scores 2000+, perhaps the only remaining landmark is to get 40 words, unless some-one's already done that. I doubt it as it's not the most rewarding way to play the game.
Some-one mentioned that the new version of Word-Up now allows a few q-but-no-u words like QWERTY. Anyone know what the others might be?

Ernest W. Quality · Post by **Ernest W. Quality** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 2:50 pm

You can't get 40 words, you could get 39 with all of them 3 letters, and clearance. We did this already, and got a score of 1334... weak.

Cardinal Sin · Post by **Cardinal Sin** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 5:30 pm

Nice name, Ernest...

so is Bubkaesque accepted in Word Up??? And if not... WHY NOT?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 7:19 pm

Ernest W. Quality wrote:You can't get 40 words, you could get 39 with all of them 3 letters, and clearance. We did this already, and got a score of 1334... weak.

Ernest says this rather dismissively, considering that I only managed this last Sunday, after he had somewhat disappointingly abandoned me to return to base rather than brave another day on enemy soil.

The score is high because I cleared - lower clearances than that are very much still possible!

tka · Post by **tka** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 9:30 pm

As a challenge how about a clearance with the fewest words? I reckon 20-25 would be possible.

On a different point my itbox was on prozac today. First game £1 at 500ish I got to 1100 but couldn't clear so lost. 2nd game £1 at 1750. next game £1 at 550 again.

Ernest W. Quality · Post by **Ernest W. Quality** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 12:12 am

tka wrote:As a challenge how about a clearance with the fewest words? I reckon 20-25 would be possible.

But surely if you did you would expect a very high points score anyway?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 8:16 am

tka wrote:As a challenge how about a clearance with the fewest words? I reckon 20-25 would be possible.

Or, in the same vein, highest average word score on clearing (minus clearance bonus). Eg. our 2070 mark would be (2070-500)/28 = 56pts per word.

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 10:16 am

as well as travelling throughout the south, Hyena is into lets say recreational drugs too.
anyway afaik QWERTY is allowed but for some reason SQUILLION has been taken out, i'm sure i played that on the old version.
also i'm pretty sure i have cleared with 25 words before, no idea where though but i'll keep an eye out.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 6:43 pm

New individual record: 1987pts - Golden Lion, Ipswich.

Followed by a lacklustre 1914 and pathetic 1508 non-clearance (=60pts/word).

Will post photo tomorrow, once I've been back to try to add more big scores.

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 11:51 am

it is a curious paradox that the game itself allows VAGINAL but the score board doesn't. the same is true of BLOWJOB.