Achievements and Accomplishments Thread

[bwt1213]

That's quite an APPW achievement while playing 64 words. Congrats! I'd probably give the 20 words/game version a go...

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.

[lalatan]

It would be nice to have a records category (most points per word average) for people who played at least 20 words per board, more than 50, etc. But now we're going into "who would PLAY that?" territory.

That's quite an APPW achievement while playing 64 words. Congrats! I'd probably give the 20 words/game version a go...

[Naboka]

This is 5 x 5, so I'm sure you'd surpass it. It might take you a day or two, but that would be all. It would be nice to have a records category (most points per word average) for people who played at least 20 words per board, more than 50, etc. But now we're going into "who would PLAY that?" territory.

Maybe this guy

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or this

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or him

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or them

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As George Mallory said, "because it's there--but, damn it, I sure wish it wasn't now that there is here, and I just lost my toes."

[bwt1213]

Wow! That's impressive.

Good thing you're channeling YOUR INNER WHATEVER cause that other guy hasn't come anywhere near that much.

This is 5 x 5, so I'm sure you'd surpass it. It might take you a day or two, but that would be all. It would be nice to have a records category (most points per word average) for people who played at least 20 words per board, more than 50, etc. But now we're going into "who would PLAY that?" territory.

[Naboka]

So I channeled my inner Naboka. I averaged 11.1875 points per word:

Game Results

YOUR STATS:Total points: 716 New record!
Total words: 64 (28 common,11 wide,3 rare,22 ultra rare) New record!
Best word: QUANTIZERS (25 pts.) New record!
Longest word: QUANTIZERS (10 letters)

Wow! That's impressive.

Good thing you're channeling YOUR INNER WHATEVER cause that other guy hasn't come anywhere near that much.

[bwt1213]

So I channeled my inner Naboka. I averaged 11.1875 points per word:

Game Results

YOUR STATS:Total points: 716 New record!
Total words: 64 (28 common,11 wide,3 rare,22 ultra rare) New record!
Best word: QUANTIZERS (25 pts.) New record!
Longest word: QUANTIZERS (10 letters)

[JedMedGrey]

Best word: ANESTHETIZES (17 pts.) New record!
Longest word: ANESTHETIZES (12 letters) New record!

Previous best was SETNESSES (9 L/16 PTS)

[blackderby]

lalatan, just gotta give you kudos for this word "QUINQUAVIGINTILLIARDTHS (48)", it's not even in the dictionary, the clickable one that is. Hats off!

[2cute]

Had a dream that I beat Megaword by 200 points.

Then I woke up.

Oh well.

Maybe someday.

Maybe

when one of his games gets interrupted by a phone call and he forgets to close it

or some other accident that happens playing Wordtwist.

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LOL ... now you know you've been playing too often ...

[Naboka]

Had a dream that I beat Megaword by 200 points.

Then I woke up.

Oh well.

Maybe someday.

Maybe

when one of his games gets interrupted by a phone call and he forgets to close it

or some other accident that happens playing Wordtwist.

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[lalatan]

This will be completely meaningless to most players, but it's been a personal goal: ultra-rare-word finds...

Seems that every challenge met simply leads to a search for a new challenge.

Anyway, just found 106 ultra-rare words on a board. Since it's a category without records, who knows what the most ever found has been.

As a player who for years has mostly been searching for ultra-rare words, I think your achievement is awesome and astounding. Congrats!! I doubt if any others have found over 100 ultra-rare words in a game as often as you have and/or will find in the future. You have developed the skill now so I suspect more such games will be forthcoming.

Wow, you are so right about every challenge met leading to yet other challenges! I collected 1,778 4x4 records in a month (not a personal best) just playing when I felt like it. I think most people would be satisfied with that. Yet I found myself thinking, "You could've made 2k if you played more often." Finding long words is easier and more enjoyable than it ever has been for me. But I still have this competitive drive to do more. OMG I wish there was an off switch for it some days! I used to be quite goal-driven but since I achieved all my goals, now I have "it would be nice to..." It'd be nice to reach 10k 4x4 records, to get 75k total records etc. etc. Baby steps, I have to find a way out of this competitive mode that was unleashed and then fueled years ago...

[dannyb]

"Are you making any progress on your graphic novel?"

It is a memoir actually (earliest memories up to my sixteenth birthday). Seventy-three "stories" completed, four are left to do. One of which is giving me problems in how to present it. That story is on its fifth revision and I'm still not 100% happy with it. I thought I would have been done by New years eve, but what are you going to do? I also need to buy some new pencils

[Naboka]

Naboka, VERY NICE 116 words with zero commons! You may have a tough time topping that, but give it a try. Your typing speed must be improving.

Thanks danny.

Typing speed had been an emphasis last year. Got it up over 150 a game. But like for most of those aging here, that puts too much of a stress on the system: joint inflammation and the like. So, I've dropped the speed to comfortable cruising. Two minutes of pushing it is just too much. Ten second bursts are about the max. Can't imagine trying to do 5x5 with the extra minute.

Are you making any progress on your graphic novel?

[dannyb]

Naboka, VERY NICE 116 words with zero commons! You may have a tough time topping that, but give it a try. Your typing speed must be improving.

[Naboka]

This will be completely meaningless to most players, but it's been a personal goal: ultra-rare-word finds.

It's something I practise constantly in very short games (1o seconds or so), trying to turn the found words list completely red--only 13 will appear at any time.

As this developed, I started trying to do it with even more esoteric ultra-rare words.

Turns out finding ene, enes, een, reen, ean, rean, sean, teres, utes over and over can get boring also.

Finding words like eat, ate, tea, ear, are, era got boring very early on, so I wanted something more challenging.

Seems that every challenge met simply leads to a search for a new challenge.

Anyway, just found 106 ultra-rare words on a board. Since it's a category without records, who knows what the most ever found has been. Seem to remember Megaword having posted getting a couple over 100 as a new high for him.

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Since the wide words here were mistypings, and the rare ones were partially from adding an s to an ultra-rare that reduced it's rarity...

It's still a work in progress. Learning which words to include and which to eliminate. Learning/remembering where an s helps and hurts.