The strange, the bizarre and the unexpected

[Boulevardiere]

Nice work on DIRHOMBICOSIDODECAHEDRONS. As far as I know this is a new 25 letter word that hasn't been found yet. Had to google it to get the definition

I could have sworn someone had already gotten the 25-letter word on that board before I did, but I can't find them in the current or most recent longest word lists. Either way, I certainly couldn't have defined it, either, beyond "shape with a lot of sides"!

[RussDNails]

Nice work on DIRHOMBICOSIDODECAHEDRONS. As far as I know this is a new 25 letter word that hasn't been found yet. Had to google it to get the definition

[Boulevardiere]

Not being up on my exotic zoological taxonomy, I was surprised to get points for PARADOXURE(S). Apparently, a paradoxure is one of three species of palm civets in the viverrid family, genus Paradoxurus. Noting it for all the times that'll come in handy in the future!

[BoggleOtaku]

Just as an aside, I would think it would be improbable to clear most boards of all words by any means, fair or not, even negating time limits, just because there may be an ultra rare word included that isn't in any common source dictionary. (Holeablenesses is a possible example.) Even if you combine 10 large word lists, there still might be the odd word or two that were included by some other way or source.

[BoggleOtaku]

These were external sources, so no guarantees!

[RussDNails]

Nice! Definitely something to watch out for and use in the future.......always hunting new words

[BoggleOtaku]

I've both capitalized on and have been bitten by this.

After reading your post, I learned that the common other examples for both spellings in rateable-, useable-, loveable-, likeable-, moveable-, saleable-.

More obscure but with historic usage both ways have roots: blame, tame, name, hire, give, live, tune, chase, dance, hole (capable of being holed or perforated).

[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.