I have a challenge for you wordsmiths. I have often thought we need new words for two Word (So)Up related concepts:
(1) the word that you play with absolutely no confidence it exists only to find it does indeed get accepted (more prevalent I think with Soup's expanded dictionary)
(2) the act of clearing without recourse to the Shuffle facility - this is always more satisfying somehow.
I do still enjoy a dabble on this game after all this time even though I don't touch the other word games and even though my PB is 1791, frustratingly just outside VB's Premier League benchmark.
ANGIE ANDY enjoyed a brief reunion this weekend in which we twice beat our PB and were on course to absolutely annihilate it until messing up a clearance with 10 tiles left and ending on 1686, 3 (consonant) tiles unused. It's the highest non-clearance I've ever had and means my first 2200 is still elusive!
We consoled ourselves with a 2107 (which, unless DMAC has upped his game recently, I think is now the highest score currently on any machine in Glasgow, my 2153 ItBox having long since been removed from Curlers). The previous day we also hit top spot in Perth with a 2021.
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I've hit a new solo high - 2319 in Manchester this weekend
After getting a QUIZZICALITIES early on I didn't dare look at the score til hitting the final word. But it's added 166 to my PB and overtaken the likes of DAVEJON and UP's PBs in the process!
Also equalled the WS record for longest word with MULTIMILLIONAIRES but only after having both MULTIMILLIONAIRESSES (which would have been a new all-version record for longest and highest scoring word) and MULTIMILLIONAIRESS disallowed.
Nil Satis wrote:I have a challenge for you wordsmiths. I have often thought we need new words for two Word (So)Up related concepts:
(1) the word that you play with absolutely no confidence it exists only to find it does indeed get accepted (more prevalent I think with Soup's expanded dictionary)
(2) the act of clearing without recourse to the Shuffle facility - this is always more satisfying somehow.
I do still enjoy a dabble on this game after all this time even though I don't touch the other word games and even though my PB is 1791, frustratingly just outside VB's Premier League benchmark.
I hit ENTRENCHMENTS and HOMESICKNESS recently. Here's another side challenge: the best words that are worth exactly 100 points, exactly 200 points etc. I only mention it as TRILOBITES got me 200 on the nail the other day. I think QUIZ gets exactly 100 points? Not that I'm suggesting that word is the most satisfying 100-pointer.
(1) I'm not sure about but (2) is just perfect so I'll adopt that and as for (3) I think I'm resigned to being the Leigh RMI of the Word Up world so I can't argue too much with that one...
in terms of pre-spotted words; COUNTERREVOLUTIONARIES is probably the easiest paragon to build if you can be bothered to wait for it. only the V is a pig and there is always one of them in the way.
but JUDOGI gives more pleasure in wordnerdery. GI? pah. we can cope with the whole word. and if you press CTRL+T he loses his strides. (ik+)
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Too right - hideous creature, why do we tolerate this kind of thing in this country. I can't remember whether it's 'Countdown' or 'QI' she's been on lately but she was bl**dy awful whichever it was.
she was on QI and did the old gag about the superstitious boxer who always carried a horseshoe. . and she took forever to tell it. and she told it badly.
. and she took forever to tell it. and she told it badly.