Achievements and Accomplishments Thread

[Naboka]

This has got to be the fastest a game has ever been recycled.

MPD had a score of about 960 with over 160 words. Knew those were well out of my reach, but thought it'd be fun. Maybe learn some new words.

Surprise, surprise. When time expired, it had played like a newly recyled board. Never had that happen. Thought they recylced after midnight or something...

oh, wait, it is after midnight east coast time.

still...

It lasted less than 15 minutes then.

LMAO

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Sure wish this player and Thunderrock tried lesser boards. Be fun to see what happens when the superior typing skills are neutralized. There were probably well over 60 common/wide words I saw but didn't bother to type--like meaningless, lessening, snideness, randiness, (lots of e-a-r combos) blah, blah, blah. There was -nesses, but nothing seemed to connect, so... maybe lalatan can find it.

Ah, the disadvantages of arthritic fingers.

ps: no new words learned since mpd's board disappeared.

[bwt1213]

Not a record high score, but more high-point word hunting (817 points in 64 words is more than 12.7 points per word). And I was typing another 20-point lunker when time ran out:
Game Results

YOUR STATS:Total points: 817 New record!
Total words: 64 (27 common,13 wide,1 rare,23 ultra rare) New record!
Best word: SQUITTERED (22 pts.) New record!
Longest word: SQUITTERED (10 letters) New record!

[Iamdumberdore]

My first unique word/best word/longest word!
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[John13verse34]

Just played my 25,000th game of 4x4... 13 years and 2 months after joining the site. That averages out to 5 games a day for the past ~4805 days. Considering I went a few years without playing at all, the actual average is likely quite higher :-D

[lalatan]

Yup, with a few seconds to go I realized cyber- could be married with citizenship, I got it typed in just before it submitted. It's exhilarating when successful. Nice to find out we all have the same citizenship here.

Nice catch there btw.

[Naboka]

Anyone else get a thrill from the last second catch?

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[JedMedGrey]

Not anywhere close to the best players, but the board had been played at least 7 times, including by Sunheart, who is way better than I am!
Best word: FASCINS (12 pts.) New record!
Longest word: FASCINS (7 letters)

[lalatan]

Thank you for the mention but I have to demure as the the decision as to how I was playing was made for me by a series of errors that affected how I had been playing (not necessarily to win APPW but because I LOVE finding REALLY big words) (My wife seamonster and I were playing our usual game to achieve average status on number of words and score and I realized I had mistakenly logged in as myself and so my average dropped to around 7.00appw) when I saw what my mistakes had done to my average I changed how I was playing and actually (for the first time) concentrated on finding records. It was fun and different to go for records as a goal but I still like REALLY big words whether I found them first or not they make me smile, they make me think.
With regard to "dumping games" (frequently mentioned of late) I dump if I haven't found a big enough word in one minute cause it takes the rest of the time to get my fingers to do it right (typos spell etc).

With regard to pain it seems that the endorphins released by REALLY big words help a lot!

Haha, that sort of thing can happen sometimes. I did that to myself once a few years ago when I was logged into one of my other usernames. Thereafter I put a post-it note on my computer to remember when I wasn't logged into my usual ID. It must be cool to have a wife who enjoys the game as well. My wife's participation is usually the rolling of her eyes when I show her the bizarre word I found, although she says she's proud of my accomplishments. She has stated more than once she wishes I would play a different game. (Ironically, she only plays 1 game and has gotten through over 4k levels in it.) I get your obsession with playing the game. For me it is really hard to break away from it when I get on a roll. Much easier to quit when I have to click through scores of games to even find 1 worth playing, which has occurred a lot since the new games were released.

I first started playing WordTwist because I was bored waiting for the ferry to sail. I also found it was good for getting my chronic pain off my mind. Still use it for that. I have no desire to play any other games than this one...

[folkslinger]

Speaking of "who would play that" competitions, I added 1 more obscure record to my other ones. While collecting 4x4 best/longest word records for the last 3 months, I scored 2 silver and 1 bronze for APPW. Those were the first APPW trophies I won while scoring only words for which I set the best/longest word records. It could be Spike has been doing it since he's very selective about the words he plays, much more so than me. I don't know if there could be a more obscure competition than that one.

folkslinger, I noticed last month you had played 51 games and had an APPW of 48 pts about 10 days into the month. With your wrist/forearm problems that probably cost you some pain to get there. Then I noticed later in the month, you stepped aside so dadsbricks could score the double gold in 4x4 and 5x5. I thought that was very courteous and sportsmanlike for you to do so.

Thank you for the mention but I have to demure as the the decision as to how I was playing was made for me by a series of errors that affected how I had been playing (not necessarily to win APPW but because I LOVE finding REALLY big words) (My wife seamonster and I were playing our usual game to achieve average status on number of words and score and I realized I had mistakenly logged in as myself and so my average dropped to around 7.00appw) when I saw what my mistakes had done to my average I changed how I was playing and actually (for the first time) concentrated on finding records. It was fun and different to go for records as a goal but I still like REALLY big words whether I found them first or not they make me smile, they make me think.
With regard to "dumping games" (frequently mentioned of late) I dump if I haven't found a big enough word in one minute cause it takes the rest of the time to get my fingers to do it right (typos spell etc).

With regard to pain it seems that the endorphins released by REALLY big words help a lot!

Congratulations to dadsbricks on the well earned 1st place!

I LOVE this game and I'm thinking about starting a new thread soon and titling it KUDOS to the game ADMINISTRATOR.

[dannyb]

"Like much of Wordtwist stats, the numbers are illusions. The product of lots of selectively dumped games."

Life could be a dream sh-boom sh-boom.

[Naboka]

Naboka, averaging over 600 points per game and over seven points per word! Well done! I am pretty sure that that has never been done before.

Thanks Danny. Appreciate the shout out.

My goal is to do a game with ALL ultra-rare words. An entire array of RED! Makes my heart tremble.

You deserve some credit here. I adopted your approach of not looking at the board as much, relying on memorized word groupings.

Like much of Wordtwist stats, the numbers are illusions. The product of lots of selectively dumped games.

[dannyb]

Naboka, averaging over 600 points per game and over seven points per word! Well done! I am pretty sure that that has never been done before.

[lalatan]

Come to think of it, how about "fewest words to 100, 200, 300 . . . 1000 points". So I'd have the (temporary) record for 64 words to 700+ points. And no, I couldn't go back and say that I'd take off some low point words and make it 60 words to 700+ points. I got what I got at the end of the game. I'm pretty sure lalatan has the record for 100 points already, with 3 words. But that was back before all the fancy number names happened, so maybe someone can do it in two now. Should we start a new thread for this? What should it be called? Someone will have the perfect name, and his name isn't mine.

Speaking of "who would play that" competitions, I added 1 more obscure record to my other ones. While collecting 4x4 best/longest word records for the last 3 months, I scored 2 silver and 1 bronze for APPW. Those were the first APPW trophies I won while scoring only words for which I set the best/longest word records. It could be Spike has been doing it since he's very selective about the words he plays, much more so than me. I don't know if there could be a more obscure competition than that one.

folkslinger, I noticed last month you had played 51 games and had an APPW of 48 pts about 10 days into the month. With your wrist/forearm problems that probably cost you some pain to get there. Then I noticed later in the month, you stepped aside so dadsbricks could score the double gold in 4x4 and 5x5. I thought that was very courteous and sportsmanlike for you to do so.

[bwt1213]

Still seems like a typing speed test to me, especially as I can't touch type despite a long ICT career. For a mix of the two interests, would a new high score table that is the multiple of the already collected APPW and either APPG or AWPG stats. That way, if you score from a lot of words and they are reasonably high value words, you will likely outdo the likes of me, only scoring a handful of words per game, but getting the really high value words.
To be honest, I used to get annoyed at the impossible-looking APPW winners getting an average close to the maximum highest word score. In the end, I couldn't beat them without dumping lower games, so I joined them. I would like a platform that is a balance so I could have fun recording all those new "Best Word" and "Longest Word" challenges that I now find and then leave for someone else, while still competing in a competition that gave me a chance. Perhaps that's thinking hyperegotistically, but perhaps that's better than thinking floccinaucinihilipilificationalistally about the low point boards :-) (Especially as I'm a member of a family that tends towards being hoarders. I like to think of us generally as being antifloccinaucinihilipilificationalists, since we assess everything as having some value somehow - and finally I've found a web platform to use those words with meaning and only a little bit of forced relevance).

Game Results

YOUR STATS:Total points: 677 New record!
Total words: 55 (20 common,15 wide,5 rare,15 ultra rare) New record!
Best word: QUANTIZERS (25 pts.) New record!
Longest word: QUANTIZERS (10 letters) New record!

This was a fresh board, so no one to blow away. I'm sure someone will outscore me, but will they average more than 12 points a word to do it? Please note: just 55 words in 3 minutes. And I'll bet you could beat my score in fewer words.

[Brisul]

What makes this even sweeter is that the board had been played more than 30 times when I found it.

That's the best!!