Achievements and Accomplishments Thread

[JedMedGrey]

Welcome, Squaredle! this is a fun game, and a great group of players - supportive & helpful even to folks like me who will never score over 300 pts a game, much less 700 or 1500! Have a good time!

[Squaredle]

First day playing, and I managed to set a new record!

Granted, it was on a puzzle that had only been played once before... still, I was proud of my best word, RIVEL (shrivel), and longest word, DRIVELED (spoke drivel).

Fun game. I found it while looking for similar games to the one I made (Squaredle). The timer adds a load of stress!

[JedMedGrey]

Chalet Cheese Co-op, N4858 County Hwy N, Monroe, WI 53566. https://chaletcheesecoop.com/ Only company in the country to make Limburger! They just opened an outlet in New Glarus - at the former Maple Leaf Cheese & Fudge Shop. Neither the website nor the FB page have much, but you should be able to send a message through the latter, or call them. Website does say that they are not shipping right now until it cools off.

[bwt1213]

bwt1213 - Thank you! Have you tried Chalet Cheese Co-op's Pannaro yet? It is a Gouda/Parmesan blend - Parmesan flavor and Gouda creamy meltiness. Quite good!

I will have to look for it. I hope it's made in Wisconsin, though; cheeses that are not have trouble passing the Cheddar Curtain.

[JedMedGrey]

bwt1213 - Thank you! Have you tried Chalet Cheese Co-op's Pannaro yet? It is a Gouda/Parmesan blend - Parmesan flavor and Gouda creamy meltiness. Quite good!

[Spike1007]

Naboka, what I said seems right for 5x5. (There, for a word with n letters, the value is r*(n-1)+s, where r is a rarity multiplier (which 1 for common words, 1.3 for wide, 1.6 for rare, and 2 for ultra-rare (rounding down to the nearest integer when necessary)), and s comes from the special letters as in my previous post.) For your 4x4 board, scoring seems different. I assume that HOT and OAT are "common", but they're both 3 points. OAK and OAKS are both worth 4, which is weird unless there's a difference in rarity values (which I doubt) or something else is going on. My guess is that, for 3-letter words (which aren't accepted in 5x5), scoring is r*n+s (with n = 3), while for 4 or more letter words, it's r*(n-1)+s, the same as 5x5, with s the same in both. (I assume OAT and OAK are both common, and the K in OAK just adds one point.) Maybe I'll play with some 4x4 boards & test my thoughts...

[Naboka]

I used to think there should be a rarity difference between American & British spellings, but the score difference just comes down to word length (like using -OU- rather than -O-) & "special" letters. Q is worth 4, Z is 3, X is 2, and J & K are 1. (Each letter can only contribute once per word. For instance, two Qs still only add 4 points.)

Always thought k's and j's generated more points. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean.

Here's the k portion of a game I just finished. Seems like a lode of points. And who knows what didn't get typed.

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[Spike1007]

I used to think there should be a rarity difference between American & British spellings, but the score difference just comes down to word length (like using -OU- rather than -O-) & "special" letters. Q is worth 4, Z is 3, X is 2, and J & K are 1. (Each letter can only contribute once per word. For instance, two Qs still only add 4 points.)

[bwt1213]

Congratulations! Personal best records are the only ones that count; there is always a King Kong to make you feel small, otherwise. And for the point difference? The "Z" counts for more points than the "S". I didn't think it was three points, though.

[JedMedGrey]

Just got my best single word score on a 4 x 4 - POSTERIZES - for 21 pts. Interesting that POSTERISE is 16 pts, but with a "Z" it is 19 pts.

[JedMedGrey]

I believe I recall a post about SEPTENTRIGINTILLIONTH (21 letters, 40 pts by lalatan). Well, I got that board, and although I did not find said word, I did find "GILLIONS", a first for the board.

Belated Happy Birthday, folkslinger!

[lalatan]

Happy birthday folkslinger! Wow, a flight in WW!! bomber would be amazing.

[Spike1007]

...we were the same age (until today, now I'm 72.)

Happy birthday, folkslinger!

[folkslinger]

mcdonna ......."And make sure to include time here. You have friends here." Quoted from BWT1213.

I will certainly 2nd that sentiment.

You have been great to watch since you have come back to the game.
Your earlier comments on the new long words (quinquaquinqua...etc etc.) How fast you found information on them and understood what they were FLOORED me because it had taken me sooo much longer to get my head around them and we were the same age (until today, now I'm 72.) Which reminds me I better play the game and get to bed because I have to get up early and go for a flight in a World War II B25 Mitchell Bomber for my birthday. Tick another one off the bucket list!

[bwt1213]

Freevee is also free, and so is Tubi and Plex and Xumo, and . . . Anyway, here's another one for you: Columbo. I'll bet you haven't seen them all. I certainly haven't. Ah, but Peacock is free, too. And they have all the original Columbo stuff. The ads are really light, though, only 15 - 30 seconds for most of them. There's a Columbo movie that predates the series: "Prescription: Murder". The movie starts with an announcement that they don't want to mess the movie up, so there will be only one commercial break at the beginning, and the movie will then be shown uninterrupted. And it was good, too.

FreeVee (formerly IMDb) has almost every movie you ever wanted to see. And every series. I'll bet you'll like Mary Berry and her cooking shows (British, of course). But Pluto has America's Test Kitchen, and Antiques Roadshow (British version) and Antiques Road Trip (addictive and fun). Haystack News and Local News Now give you local news broadcasts free.

There's another feed for Science Fiction classics. Wanna watch "Flowers for Algernon"? It's there.

You have to be judicious. There's so much there. It really is a firehose. If you have ADHD, then you need to make a list. Here are the movies I'd like to watch. Here are the series. Here are the kinds of shows. Now, where are they? Today, you watch one Columbo and one Antiques Road Trip. Tomorrow, you watch one America's Test Kitchen and one Julia Child. And so on. If you like Star Trek, then Paramount+ is where you go. You can watch all the original Star Trek and all the spin-offs. Want to watch Twilight Zone? That's Peacock, also free.

I wasn't kidding about shows about life in old Rome and Greek Myths and the rest of it, either. So it really is a firehose. The only possible solution to that is to ration your time. Two hours of TV per day (or whatever) and no more. So many hours of reading, and no more. So many hours walking, or jogging, or exercising. If you let yourself run free, you're running down the rabbit hole too much of the time. You know that already.

And make sure to include time here. You have friends here.