Achievements and Accomplishments Thread

[Spike1007]

kjambur, congrats to you!

[kjambur]

Finally, finally, finally I won the first place in APPW in 5x5 board.
Thanks to the cryptogram keeper for not competing this time. Otherwise I would have to wait god knows for how long.
And what an honor it is to play alongside lalatan spike1007, folkslinger, dasan and other legends here.
Congrats to you all guys.

[crazykate]

Finally broke the into the 1100s!!

All the more impressive to me since you're a fellow swiper! I think fast typists generally have an advantage in this game, but you're definitely the fastest big-league swiper!

[Naboka]

"Zero" boards resulted when someone got an unplayed board but didn't enter any words before the time ran out. This was when boards were counted as played but no words had been entered. I assume that these zero boards are holdovers from that time & haven't been recycled yet.

Just for grins I purposely let a board run out without playing it--before which I recorded my number of games played, average score, average points per game, and average points per word.

You're right: nothing changed. All my stats remained the same.

The board had been played by others also.

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Guess that's one less worry. I often open boards and leave the keyboard untouched so I can excercise the mental recognition aspect without the complication of fingers finding keys. It's the same strategy used in improving any activity: break it down into fundamental parts and drill those parts to improve efficiency.

Unfortunately, sometimes I got distracted and left the board open without any plays leaving a bunch of zeros.

That was always exasperating since I assumed it impacted averages.

Now I can just exercise that fundamental without the distraction of worrying about when time runs out.

[bwt1213]

Congratulations! Almost none of us will get anywhere near that, even on the 5x5 game.

[boysmom]

Finally broke the into the 1100s!!

[Emerging]

If I post achievements in the future, I think I'll exclude the best and longest words. Thanks for your input.

There have been numerous times that I get more words than you, but don't even close to outscoring you. Obviously it's because your propensity to play high-scoring words. So on the the unusual occasion I outscore you too, it's really gratifying.

[Naboka]

Still doesn't happen that often, but I beat Naboka's high score again. I don't want to freak you out Naboka, but it feels particularly good to get more points than you.





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Understand. Know the feeling. It's always a bit of thrill.

Propably what makes the game a bit addictive.

So, not bothered that you're having fun and topping my games. Kind of a compliment that anyone wants to beat my scores at all. Wasn't like that for a long time.

Took a lot of study and analysis to come to this point. Think I've easily put in more work learning this game that any full semester (probably year) of college. And I got my bachelors in three years, so they were loaded semesters.

The especially nice thing is you put the game back into cirulation so others have a shot at the longest/best word.

PS: it might be a good thing not to show the best/longest words. Makes it more of challenge so we all have to work for the rewards rather than being given the answers. I realize that anyone who's played a particular board will be exposed to the longest word if it's been played, but that's a very limited audience. Just a courtesy to the long word players who like to discover these things on their own.

[Emerging]

Still doesn't happen that often, but I beat Naboka's high score again. I don't want to freak you out Naboka, but it feels particularly good to get more points than you.





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[bwt1213]

Congratulations! I think you just one-upped me. You're playing the same kind of game, anyway. And I'll bet Naboka heartily approves, too.

[crazykate]

I don't have a screenshot due to the fact that "my stats" and "puzzle stats" are so far apart in the mobile version... But I just beat the total points and most words records on a board that had been played 17 times - by 1 word and 110 points.
I know I'm not in the big league with you guys, but that makes a result such as this all the more gratifying.

[BoggleOtaku]

I think some zero boards are glitches as well.

[Spike1007]

"Zero" boards resulted when someone got an unplayed board but didn't enter any words before the time ran out. This was when boards were counted as played but no words had been entered. I assume that these zero boards are holdovers from that time & haven't been recycled yet.

[Naboka]

I'd play it, just on the chance that one of the 27 ultra-rare words was 16 letters long and more than 30 points. If I see ANY 4x4 board with even one 7+ ultra-rare word, I'm going for it.

There is that.

Another 16/30 plus. Always fun.

Then again, you're at an all-you-can-eat buffet, having been stuffed on shrimp, steak, pie etc. Eating another morsel of anything has reached such diminishing returns you're no longer interested.

The oddity of encountering this board and the opportunity to do something unusual seemed more interesting than playing it. Even if fleeting.

There's always another 16/30 around the corner. I've dumped a fair number of boards after finding those and going off the rails so badly that my average score would have suffered--though I did make an exception a couple of days ago when I found a super rare chemical term that contained trans-. That board turned into a complete trainwreck, but I couldn't let it go even when I realized the final score was going to knock 5 points off my average.

The unconventional has its siren call. Probably why I got bored with common words and gravitated to the ultra-rare ones. My brain's just a bit unconventional.

[bwt1213]

I'd play it, just on the chance that one of the 27 ultra-rare words was 16 letters long and more than 30 points. If I see ANY 4x4 board with even one 7+ ultra-rare word, I'm going for it.