The strange, the bizarre and the unexpected

[lalatan]

Spike, I didn't see your edit until today. Thanks for the congrats. Congrats to you on your silver trophy and your ongoing excellence! I saw a really good word you came up with on 1 board but forgot it now. lol, just way too many words swirling around in my head.

I'm still tracking my daily stats. I quite like it; seems to motivate me when I see the daily totals. At first I hesitated to do it since I thought I could get obsessed with it but that hasn't happened. The elves are pretty crazy with my long word totals since I'm setting up to 30 long word records/day. The most dramatic so far is a loss of 28 for 2 days, a gain of 44 the next day and then a loss of 19 the day after. Strangely it balances out with a few extra credits every month.

Today I played STIRPICULTURES. I saw the word somewhere and actually remembered to play it!

[Spike1007]

lalatan, thanks for the elf update. I haven't kept track in a while, certainly not since the migration. Maybe now that they're working days, we have a chance to catch them in the act.

By the way, a belated congrats for your (not unexpected) 1st place last month (as thinkbig)!

For those not familiar with the elf problem, a while back I started keeping track of my current lifetime stats for best & longest words. These should of course go up when you set a record and go down when someone beats your record on that board. I've pretty much confirmed that the counts do go up as I set records. Going down is to be expected, but I realized that the longest words record count would often increase overnight, and then decrease some the next day. I assumed that elves were playing for me.

[lalatan]

Umm...INVENTIONAL??

I tried that one in the past but it wasn't worth enough points for me to keep it. I needed it to be INTERINVENTIONALISMS or something like that.

The most unexpected thing for me is when I go to click on a game and I see that MY name is listed for longest word record. :-D

I look at a lot of game stats every day and have seen you as the record holder a few times. Congrats!

I remember finding ZINCIER or something like that.

I tried ZINCKIEST one time and it worked!

Spike: Since the server migration, the elves moved to the day shift and they only work every third day or so. They must have signed a lucrative contract with WordTwist to get hours like that.


Yesterday I found SQUAMOUSNESSES for 30 pts/ 2 records. I played squamous (having scales, scaly) in the past but don't think I found the -nesses version before.

[InsertNameHere]

Thanks. I did look that one up, which kind of added to the surprise. Words for much weirder things than that seem to stick in my head, but I didn't remember ever having run across that before. Had you heard of it (and, if so, are you a vexillologist)?

No, the term was just in an episode of The Big Bang Theory

[DrPlacebo]

I've found some -ZINC- words before that probably also counts in the Frankenstein category. (I don't remember what they were.) Since then, I've seen -ZINC-, but never managed to do anything good with it. Good job!

I remember finding ZINCIER or something like that.

[Spike1007]

Thanks. I did look that one up, which kind of added to the surprise. Words for much weirder things than that seem to stick in my head, but I didn't remember ever having run across that before. Had you heard of it (and, if so, are you a vexillologist)?

[InsertNameHere]

I did get UNEXPECTEDNESSES today. I guess that fits here, in a warped way. While it's not that impressive, it serves as a nice introduction to a few other words I've found this morning:

VEXILLOLOGICAL
MECHANOMORPHISM
FLEXOGRAPHICALLY

These were all guesses, and to me, they were unexpected.

If you haven't already looked up the definition, Vexillology is the study of flags.

[Razorflame]

Umm...INVENTIONAL??

[lalatan]

Some impressive finds there Spike! You're a very skilled "guesser."

Edit: I just played a board where I couldn't find much of anything. I tried COMMONSENSE, which to my surprise was accepted. (UNCOMMONSENSE was not.) It was only worth 13 pts so I nuked the game.

[Spike1007]

I did get UNEXPECTEDNESSES today. I guess that fits here, in a warped way. While it's not that impressive, it serves as a nice introduction to a few other words I've found this morning:

VEXILLOLOGICAL
MECHANOMORPHISM
FLEXOGRAPHICALLY

These were all guesses, and to me, they were unexpected.

[rosedraws]

The most unexpected thing for me is when I go to click on a game and I see that MY name is listed for longest word record. :-D

[Spike1007]

I've found some -ZINC- words before that probably also counts in the Frankenstein category. (I don't remember what they were.) Since then, I've seen -ZINC-, but never managed to do anything good with it. Good job!

[lalatan]

PHOTOZINCOGRAPHY (?!) for 27 pts. I figure that qualifies as a Frankenstein word as well.

[lalatan]

I have come to find out that you never know what the hell will actually work in this game now-a-days XD

Yeah, there's a lot of variety here. If you don't see a word, try something different. haha (Writing that made me recall I played INDIFFERENTS for 22 pts, 2 records recently)

Anyway, my entry for today's bizarre word I found is IMMISERIZATIONS.

[Razorflame]

I tried RIVALIZE just to see if it was a word, and it was.....still have no idea why it works, lol.

Also, just tried SECTORIZE and that also worked...I have come to find out that you never know what the hell will actually work in this game now-a-days XD