A crazy, surprising run continued

[lalatan]

Not even eggshattering news but I said I was gonna do the experiment again and felt somewhat behooved to thus share the results:

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As I suspected I've become quicker finding words but, after 2 more years of game play, that should be expected. (btw these were all games where I set the best/longest word records)

Naboka and BoggleOtaku: thanks for the intel on DYSMORPHOPHOBIC. I set a record on another board for DYSMORPHOPHOBIA. The day after I got BoggleOtaku's game when there were only a total of 26 available words. Matched his record then. I think the word is cemented in my mind now...

[2cute]

After I found the word, I looked at the countdown timer for the game and subtracted the remaining time from 3 minutes. Those stats were from 2 years ago. Later this month I think I'll try the same experiment to see where I'm at.

While you were playing? Wow!

[lalatan]

How do you know how long it took you to find each word?

After I found the word, I looked at the countdown timer for the game and subtracted the remaining time from 3 minutes. Those stats were from 2 years ago. Later this month I think I'll try the same experiment to see where I'm at.

[Spike1007]

mcdonna, a few things changed while you were away. Stephen enlarged the dictionary (with more to come), as you noticed. There are also now a few 25-letter words. In addition, an artificial cap on word scores has been lifted, so that can go over 45 points/word (and Stephen talked about the possibility of making rarity values for words board-dependent, affecting the point value).

[mcdonna]

... Or a 25 letter name for a number you can't comprehend or a compound you never knew existed.

Yeah over the years I've learned how to mash bits of words together to make mystery medical compounds. I even have an idea of what some of the bits mean.

Today I found my first incomprehensible number! Though it's only 19 letters: QUINQUAGINTILLIARDS

Evidently while I was on my 2-year sabbatical either Stephen added a cosmic scale to the boards or else people started seeing what had been there all along. I was flummoxed at first, then remembered Google. (Not googol.) And turned up a Wikipedia page with the formulae for compounding these numbers. According to it, QUINQUAGINTILLIARDS is 10³⁰³ in the Traditional European (aka Peletier or "long scale") format. And yes I used their table while working the board. Is that cheating? Give me a few years and I might not need it any more.

In case anyone else is interested, the page is wikipedia dot org slash wiki slash Names_of_large_numbers.

[bwt1213]

Wow, what a unique experience. No, that's never happened to me. I've gotten exactly the same best & longest word as the best score several times & I guess I had a semi-invisible game.

I've matched on three and come close on the fourth maybe a half-dozen times in the last 8 years. Getting the same points and the same high score is the "easiest" to match. Getting the same longest word is not extremely difficult. But then getting the same highest-point word seems the most difficult. Especially with the high-point-word mavens around. Yeah, right, run the gauntlet and then have to find "unrepresentativenesses" besides. Or a 25 letter name for a number you can't comprehend or a compound you never knew existed.

[2cute]

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crazykate's comment in the "Cheateres" thread made me curious about how long I take to play a game on avg while looking for best/long word records. So I built a simple spreadsheet and logged my results for May 27. I thought I'd post it here so I wouldn't clutter that thread. I was surprised by the number of games where I found new words. (Stephen must be cranking out more new boards. Btw I take a screenshot of new words I find worth over 22 pts and file them in a folder. Then I know when I first found the word.)

How do you know how long it took you to find each word?

[2cute]

Well. Brisul, I had something happen in about the first month I played here, and I have never had it happen again. I exactly matched the high score, AND the most words, AND the longest word, AND the word with the most points all on the same board. Of course, that meant I got credit for exactly zero records (and deserved none). I called that an "invisible game". Has anyone else ever done it? And just FYI -- I did not use all the same words, because I got credit for some unique ones, and the game had been played about a dozen times previously.

Wow, what a unique experience. No, that's never happened to me. I've gotten exactly the same best & longest word as the best score several times & I guess I had a semi-invisible game.

[Spike1007]

mcdonna, thanks, and welcome back!

[mcdonna]

Thanks, lalatan. I didn't realize they were visible ... yet not. I contacted Stephen. He replied that he's on holiday and would get to it as soon as he could.

In brief, I said how much I missed everybody the last two years. And explained that I had to pull away because I was so addicted and failing to get work done. Then last fall I was diagnosed with ADHD ... and then some stuff about that which I think is why my posts languished in the Unapproved queue.

Anyway I did miss y'all and really appreciate your welcoming me back. And I agree that Spike is AWESOME. In addition to being a great player, he made some posts years ago with helpful advice. In 2017 I saved this list in Evernote:

components, courtesy of Spike:
PSYCHO, NEURO, IMMUNO, PHYSIO, AUTO, PHYTO, HYPER, MICRO (if you find this, look for a preceeding SUB), OVER, UNDER, ELECTRO, MAGNETO, ULTRA, SUPER, PARA, PHOTO, CO,
ABILITY ABILITIES, LOGY, LOGIES, (obviously), GRAPHY, GRAPHIES, ISMS, ISTS
PALAEO, PALEO
-NESSES, -LINESSES, -EDNESSES, -FULNESSES, -LESSNESSES
-HEARTEDNESS(ES) words: CHICKEN, STOUT, STRONG, BIG, SOFT, BROKEN, LARGE, LARGE
-HANDEDNESS(ES) words: LEFT, RIGHT, EVEN, SURE, UNDER, FORE
-HEADEDNESS(ES) words: ROUND, RIGHT, STRONG, BULL, BONE, WOODEN, SORE, PEA

[lalatan]

Thanks folkslinger. I agree about Spike. He is a long word pioneer and still comes up with some fantastic finds. He and Aussiemum were my inspirations when I was starting out.

McDonna, I haven't been able to view either of your 2 recent posts. I hope you're not getting flagged as spam, which is sometimes a problem on this forum...

[mdyak]

Congrats to folkslinger on setting another all-time high in the APPW competition last month. It took skill and remarkable perseverance to achieve a 48 pt value. After I reached 50k 5x5 best/longest word records I thought I might see how high I could go in the monthly competition but you've made it so I don't have to bother anymore.

Congrats to Spike on setting a personal best above 46 pts and to mdyak for a solid 3rd place finish of 40 pts. Also, welcome back to mcdonna.

Thanks so much for the acknowledgment! I would try harder, but... I want to play more and there seem to be fewer and fewer high point words out there to play! I end up throwing away a lot of games before they time out, and I think this month I'll just let it go and back to getting more longest and best word records. The other gets boring after a while, and the whole point I think is to have fun!

[Spike1007]

Thanks folkslinger & lalatan! folkslinger, a 48+ APPW is amazing. I'm guessing you'll keep your record for quite a while.

[folkslinger]

Congrats to folkslinger on setting another all-time high in the APPW competition last month. It took skill and remarkable perseverance to achieve a 48 pt value. After I reached 50k 5x5 best/longest word records I thought I might see how high I could go in the monthly competition but you've made it so I don't have to bother anymore.

Congrats to Spike on setting a personal best above 46 pts and to mdyak for a solid 3rd place finish of 40 pts. Also, welcome back to mcdonna.

Hi lalatan,

Your congratulations and post means a lot to me coming from the best big word player of the game. And I'm grateful that that you didn't indicate you are coming out of retirement. Maybe I can keep my record for a little while>

A hearty congratulations to Spike on making the month's competition extremely tough. In my opinion, (with lalatan being the best big word player), you are the second best in the Wordtwist World of big word hunting.

[lalatan]

Congrats to folkslinger on setting another all-time high in the APPW competition last month. It took skill and remarkable perseverance to achieve a 48 pt value. After I reached 50k 5x5 best/longest word records I thought I might see how high I could go in the monthly competition but you've made it so I don't have to bother anymore.

Congrats to Spike on setting a personal best above 46 pts and to mdyak for a solid 3rd place finish of 40 pts. Also, welcome back to mcdonna.