A crazy, surprising run continued

[Brisul]

Here's a nice stark contrast of two completely different playing styles!

[lalatan]

That felt good. I took on a board where the best/longest word was 24/13. Usually my upper limit is 22 pts but the stats implied there could be something better. I prevailed with UNAVOIDABLENESSES for 32/17. The previous record was for AUDIBLENESSES.

[Razorflame]

Thanks, RazorFlame! I haven't seen you on the forum for many moons. Welcome back.

bwt: Congrats on setting 2 new personal bests!

Yes, it's been over a year. I'm back, though

[lalatan]

Thanks, RazorFlame! I haven't seen you on the forum for many moons. Welcome back.

bwt: Congrats on setting 2 new personal bests!

[Razorflame]

Finally, a new all-time PERSONAL record high score for 5x5 (and a personal record for most words, too):

Total points: 744 New record!
Total words: 137 (71 common,25 wide,5 rare,36 ultra rare) New record!
Best word: WESTERED (14 pts.)
Longest word: MASTERED (8 letters)


PUZZLE STATS:

Played: 1 times
Average Score: 493 points
Average Words: 88 words
High Score: 242 points by geekwes
Most Words: 39 words by geekwes
Best Word: UNDERSETS (16 pts) by geekwes
Longest Word: UNDERSETS (9 letters) by geekwes

Grats! Also grats on the wonderful record setting lala

[flops]

Good to hear from you, flops. Haha, once again you have me googling Australian slang. flogs: Flog is a slang term for “wanker”, itself meaning someone who's up themselves, getting ideas above their station.
There is a degree of highmindedness to those words but I guess somebody uses them.

Some days I just can't help myself...I go off meandering, looking a root words...(and then have a chuckle because of what "root" means in Australian slang...it pretty well describes my meandering). High minded indeed!

[bwt1213]

Finally, a new all-time PERSONAL record high score for 5x5 (and a personal record for most words, too):

Total points: 744 New record!
Total words: 137 (71 common,25 wide,5 rare,36 ultra rare) New record!
Best word: WESTERED (14 pts.)
Longest word: MASTERED (8 letters)


PUZZLE STATS:

Played: 1 times
Average Score: 493 points
Average Words: 88 words
High Score: 242 points by geekwes
Most Words: 39 words by geekwes
Best Word: UNDERSETS (16 pts) by geekwes
Longest Word: UNDERSETS (9 letters) by geekwes

[lalatan]

Good to hear from you, flops. Haha, once again you have me googling Australian slang. flogs: Flog is a slang term for “wanker”, itself meaning someone who's up themselves, getting ideas above their station.
There is a degree of highmindedness to those words but I guess somebody uses them.

[flops]

yeah, but some of those plants are real flogs....

[thinkbig]

Thanks Spike!

In the past ThunderRock and bwt said they like to occasionally see some words that I've been finding so here ya go guys:

TR: I found OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIST and 2 days later OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIES. I probably wouldn't have seen them if you hadn't found it and then mentioned it on the forum. Thanks.

BATHYMETRICALLY
AEROMAGNETICALLY
RUGGEDISATIONS
PHYTOFLAGELLATES (learned that 1 in high school science many, many moons ago)
GLOSSOGRAPHICAL
FREEWHEELINGLY
ILLIBERALIZES
HEMOGLOBINOPATHIES
RADIOCHROMATOGRAM
ENTHRONISATIONS
ANTICLERICALISMS
HARDHANDEDNESSES
ARCHAEOZOOLOGISTS
BARELEGGEDNESSES

I really love the diversity (and sometimes the quirkiness) of the long words they seed into the boards on this website.

[Spike1007]

OK, I'm still in awe of that. As 007, I'm less than a fourth of that, if I'm lucky. Keep it up!

[lalatan]

I waffled on recreating this thread but finally decided to start it up again and see what happens. In the previous year before the old forum was expunged, this thread was viewed 63k times for an overall total of 85k. That for me beggars belief but I suppose with guests usually outnumbering registered players 10:1 I suppose it's possible. Now that this forum is buried at the end of the forums page I doubt if it will garner as many views from passersby.

So, for anyone interested, my lifetime best/longest word records is currently at 23,428. Year to date I'm averaging 787 records set per month but I'm also playing fewer games than last year when I averaged 897/month.

Enjoy the games everyone!