Achievements and Accomplishments Thread

[admin]

Post is approved now - sorry about this, it's become the norm now for spammers to make a "normal" post and then go back and edit in all kinds of spam links and garbage afterwards, so the forum software proactively throws all edited posts into moderation. I'll see if I can loosen up that restriction a bit as long as links aren't found in the text.

[Spike1007]

In the past, I've copied the edited text before submitting. If the post disappears, I just create a new one and paste the text in.

[BoggleOtaku]

Naboka, what I've done in this instance, especially after once when a day plus passed, is delete the hung up post and start fresh.

[Naboka]

Just wrote a post. It was accepted, then I decided to edit/add a ps congrats to Jbud1980. As often happens with edits, the post was then flagged.

Anyway, that post will appear after admin reviews it. So...

[Naboka]

You ever get in the zone? Where time sort of slows way down?

I try to keep my typing at around 100 words per game. Seems to be the sweet spot between getting a decent score and avoiding arthritic inflammation.

About a minute and a half into this game I realized I'd run through my available chunks of ultra-rare words, glanced at the clock, was shocked by how much time remained, then got flustered and desperate trying to find words I studiously avoid. (4, 5 and 6 letter words that aren't worth much, like moose, noose, nooses, moles, loons that are valued less than a point a letter.)

And the magic disappeared.

But for a minute and a half...

Zen Wordtwist.

But, now my fingers and wrists are telling me, "F your zen wordtwist. We don't care."

Wish it had been a strong board filled with ultra-rares--one of those 200 plus UR extravaganzas, where the UR chunks are large and seemingly endless. Maybe with a k, z, q, x.
Or -izations, or -nesses.

Oh, the dreams of children.

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And, oddly, the preceding games were a mess where I couldn't find the keyboard--with lots of mistypings. Funny how our ability bounces around. Guess it's why giving up shouldn't be an option--magic is always possible ahead.

ps: congrats on the 1,000 plus game, Jbud1980.

[jbud1980]

Congratulations! And I see you averaged more than 8 points per word while you were at it -- so, double congratulations!

Thank you so much, and happy holidays.

[bwt1213]

Congratulations! And I see you averaged more than 8 points per word while you were at it -- so, double congratulations!

[jbud1980]

Santa came early, and gifted me with besting my high score playing 5X5.

Total points: 1064 New record!
Total words: 124 (23 common,14 wide,17 rare,70 ultra rare) New record!
Best word: QUEENIEST (20 pts.)
Longest word: REQUESTERS (10 letters)

[JedMedGrey]

TY! It will probably be a long time before I get a 25 letter word, although I did manage to get a 16-letter in a 4x4.

[bwt1213]

Congratulations to you both! It's great to set new records.

[JedMedGrey]

Played: 8 times
Best word: PLANKTONS (17 pts.) New record!
Longest word: PLANKTONS (9 letters) New record!

Previous Best/Longest
Best Word: SOAKEN (11 pts)
Longest Word: SONNETS (7 letters)

[shock]

Finally found my first 25 letter word today, IMMUNOELECTROPHORETICALLY!

[Naboka]

One step closer to 900. Totally unexpected as it was the first game of the morning and I wasn't warmed up--and the game stats didn't promise much.

Since I used to spend hours going over games played by Megaword, thought seeing the readout might benefit some of you learning new words. It's just easier seeing them in one place rather than sorting through hundreds of words in the results and trying to find what is and isn't valuable.

(think I'm going to shuffle zeta, zetas, danio, danios, erk lower in the queue as I missed out on other words worth more points that I saw but didn't have time to type.)

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[JedMedGrey]

I truly doubt I will ever find a best or longest word on a board that has been played more than 20 times, let alone 40! But I did just get
Best word: TARGETLESS (18 pts.) New record!
Longest word: TARGETLESS (10 letters)
Previous
Best Word: QUARE (12 pts) (which I also got)
Longest Word: CARELESSLY (10 letters)

bwt1213 I did find strangulating used in a non-medical sense: "weakness of the electricity supply is strangulating development" Oxford Languages. I'm sure we could come up with a few other sentences. For example: Certain groups are strangulating education by insisting on the perpetuation of various untruths.

[John13verse34]

For me, one of the most satisfying accomplishments is finding a best or longest word on a board that has been played a lot of times. I just finished a board that had 40 plays, and the previous best word was 11 points and the longest word was 6 letters. I found POLICYHOLDER (12 letters/14 points), which felt very rewarding :-D