Can't find the old WU thread, so I'll just make a new one

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 11:46 am

Ernest W. Quality wrote:points = length x (sum of tile points)

In which case Cool's question still stands doesn't it - how would a 14 letter word score 400, when 14 is not a factor of 400?

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 12:06 pm

Maybe he didn't mean EXACTLY 400 points - 406 is 14 x 29 for example.

Besides, I have far more noteworthy news to report - I actually won a JP on this last night and it was for a pretty pathetic score of 1000-something, as I didn't even need to clear the screen before getting to the £10. It was on a Paragon Pro and what was even odder is that I'm pretty sure it wasn't a completely fresh installation of the machine as some of the other games looked well played. Short of getting any decent prize on Goldenballs or the £20 on 1 vs 100 I don't think my gob could have been any more smacked!

roberto la vigna · Post by **roberto la vigna** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 12:13 pm

Well done, Cool - welcome to the first day of the rest of your life.

fotherz · Post by **fotherz** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 12:11 am

Nil Satis wrote:Besides, I have far more noteworthy news to report - I actually won a JP on this last night and it was for a pretty pathetic score of 1000-something, as I didn't even need to clear the screen before getting to the £10. It was on a Paragon Pro and what was even odder is that I'm pretty sure it wasn't a completely fresh installation of the machine as some of the other games looked well played. Short of getting any decent prize on Goldenballs or the £20 on 1 vs 100 I don't think my gob could have been any more smacked!

Where was that, Nil?

(feel free to pm)

roberto la vigna · Post by **roberto la vigna** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 7:14 am

fotherz wrote:
Nil Satis wrote:Besides, I have far more noteworthy news to report - I actually won a JP on this last night and it was for a pretty pathetic score of 1000-something, as I didn't even need to clear the screen before getting to the £10. It was on a Paragon Pro and what was even odder is that I'm pretty sure it wasn't a completely fresh installation of the machine as some of the other games looked well played. Short of getting any decent prize on Goldenballs or the £20 on 1 vs 100 I don't think my gob could have been any more smacked!
Where was that, Nil?

(feel free to pm)

Surely the prize behaviour would have reverted to normal after giving out that freebie...

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 8:02 am

well yes, but it might suggest that the surrounding area has nobody who can clear and therefore babies carrying candy.

fotherz · Post by **fotherz** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 12:01 pm

Just out of interest really. I don't plan on making any pilgrimages.

When I got £10 for scoring ~550, it was in Hammersmith, so it's probably not a question of the locals being rubbish. More likely someone just pumped a lot of money into it one night.

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 4:05 pm

I'm happy to share - it was in O'Neills in High Wycombe and I'd be very confident in saying that this was some sort of software anomaly rather than a pattern of lots of extremely keen but extremely poor Word Up players in the vicinity - there are plenty of other cabinets in the town with it on and I've not seen anything similar anywhere else.

Maybe there's just something odd about that venue - it was the place where I saw the rare DOND standalone mentioned elsewhere and on Monday the same Paragon gave me an error screen that I've never seen before - after paying out circa £30 for that Word Up JP and one or two other bits and pieces a huge red X came up with some message about a hopper error and that was that. It also hosts what must be one of the most annoying and cliquey pub quizzes I've ever witnessed - well worth a visit if any of you are connoisseurs of bad pub quizzes (unlikely I know

).

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 10:47 pm

it took me about a minute to hook up ZEPTOSECOND (insert own megaretardation joke here) but it has given me some small joy.

it is not just a Z word, it has a certain elegance: say it, roll it around your mouth, it is a beautiful thing.
the "second" finishes in a moment but the Z and the P have to be overpronounced.

fotherz · Post by **fotherz** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 10:14 pm

Indeed.

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 10:12 pm

i very much enjoyed BROWNNOSING in my local today.

QuizMaster · Post by **QuizMaster** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 10:20 pm

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 10:42 pm

QM, please let me have some small joy amongst QUIZZIFICATIONABILITIES.

as you say:

"gah"

fotherz · Post by **fotherz** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 12:10 am

21xx in the Lord Moon.

TRANQUILLIZING (just for Istenem) and INTERSECTED (which may be a new one).

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 10:22 pm

apparently YELLOWLEGSES is not the plural of YELLOWLEGS. boo.

but it is probably allowed as an adverb