The strange, the bizarre and the unexpected

[RussDNails]

I just played a board where the highest scoring word was 25 points. Keyed in "sizablenesses" and finished the game which I was 100% sure I matched the 25 point word. Stared at it over and over and couldn't figure out why I only received 19 points for the same word. Turns out you can add an "e" to make "sizeablenesses" which bumps it up to 25 points! It took me quite a while to spot the difference

[crazykate]

I found the word PSYCHOGALVANOGRAPHS on two consecutive days. That was strange and unexpected.

[Naboka]

Some stats leave me startled.

Before my fingers went bad, I was beating this player every time I encountered one of their boards. Just thought of them as a very good player, not especially elite.

Now they're putting up stunning numbers. Like this board where they got 128 out of 130 words. Pretty startling. Especially since finding the last few words on any board become exponentially harder.

Such unbelievable progress in just a few months.

The mysteries of the computer age.

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[Somervillain]

Do you have a parabaptizations if you have twins?

word	difficulty	score
PARABAPTIZATIONS	Ultra Rare	33
PARABAPTIZATION	Ultra Rare	31

Play Another » Game Results

YOUR STATS:Total points: 64
Total words: 2 (0 common,0 wide,0 rare,2 ultra rare)
Best word: PARABAPTIZATIONS (33 pts.) New record!
Longest word: PARABAPTIZATIONS (16 letters) New record!

[crazykate]

I was not expecting BARILLA to be accepted, as I only know it as a brand name for pasta. But no:
"1. n. A name given to several species of Salsola from which soda is made, by burning the barilla in heaps and lixiviating the ashes."
Now I need to look up "lixiviation".

[BoggleOtaku]

Maybe you can have only one.
Like the enemy of my enemy
or, if everyone is a rebel, no one is.
The counterpoint of counterpoint is homophony?

[Naboka]

Just played contrapuntalist which took several tries to type in, then tried contrapuntalists at least a half dozen times because the s sat at the tail end of list. But no go. Even laboriously tracing the finished board, contrapuntalists was available. So... I don't know.

Because my typing really sucks some times, was wondering if anyone had ever played the plural and it counted.

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[DrPlacebo]

OUTSNORE(S) counts, in case it ever becomes a competition.

[dannyb]

This is why I love to read the forum!!

[DrPlacebo]

Tried and unexpectedly got points for SUPERPHLOGISTICATION and SUPERPHLOGISTICATIONS.

Apparently the word "superphlogistication" has only ever been used once in published literature, in a paper that appeared in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in 1789.

[JJBeanie]

Odd, but for some reason, other replys after the initial post by Adiposeur post didn't show up for me.

[JJBeanie]

I has a sad. The word "dipthong" was called invalid.

Did you mistype it in the game or just in your post? The correct spelling is "diphthong" and would/should have been accepted.

[adiposeur]

Diphthong is there! Face palm.

[dannyb]

A dipthong is a scanty bathing suit for a short stay in the pool.

[BoggleOtaku]

DIPHTHONGISE is a possibility...