Gallant Efforts

[DrPlacebo]

The fusion taco place in my neighborhood is not engaging in TACOIZATION of other cuisines...

[dannyb]

The World Series taco-ization of America continues

Published in Mass Live October 23, 2008. Darn those hyphens. The headline was written by Dan Lamothe.

[DrPlacebo]

No such thing as a METAPHONE, whatever that might be.

[dannyb]

No such thing as a METAPHONE, whatever that might be.

It is what I use to call up Mark Zuckerberg when when I want to discuss the concepts of identity, being, space and time.

[DrPlacebo]

The guy in my apartment complex with the obnoxiously loud car subwoofers isn't listening to anything with MEGABASS.

[Spike1007]

On the other hand, apparently MICROBLOGGING is a thing.

[DrPlacebo]

As much as physicists may talk about spherical cows in a vacuum, there is no such thing as an ANTICOW.

EDIT: On the other hand I just discovered on a separate board that NONCOW and NONCOWS are words.

[DrPlacebo]

The plural of kimono is not KIMONI.

[crazykate]

The plural of kimono is not KIMONI.

Only because the ancient Romans never made it to Japan.

[Naboka]

Guessing this is the least number of words I've needed to get over 800.

Got my imagination working:

"what if one concentrated on longer UR words and set a goal of averaging over 10 PPW with at least 80 words played?"

Hmmmm.

Managed to do the red board challenge: all UR words with at least a hundred played. That was interesting.

Hmmm.

Nothing like a goal to add meaningless meaning to a meaninglessly meaningful life.

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Almost like adding parkour to Wordtwist.

[bwt1213]

"what if one concentrated on longer UR words and set a goal of averaging over 10 PPW with at least 80 words played?"


The 5x5 game is easier for that kind of goal. I tried to go over 800 and came up a little short. But I did go over 10 ppw.

Total points: 782 New record!
Total words: 75 (35 common,13 wide,3 rare,24 ultra rare)
Best word: SQUITTERED (22 pts.)
Longest word: SQUITTERED (10 letters)



PUZZLE STATS:
Played: 8 times
Average Score: 399.4 points
Average Words: 54.3 words
High Score: 714 points by
Most Words: 119 words by
Best Word: UNSEQUENTIAL (26 pts) by
Longest Word: UNSEQUENTIAL (12 letters) by

[Naboka]

The 5x5 game is easier for that kind of goal. I tried to go over 800 and came up a little short. But I did go over 10 ppw.


Yeah, I've been impressed by some of your APPW on 5x5. Haven't come anywhere near those numbers on 4x4.

Which makes me entertain the idea of moving to 5x5...

for about a fraction of a second.

At least a couple of times a day, my fingers get so tired about 90 seconds into the game that I can't wait for the timer to end the misery. Can't imagine what adding an extra minute of exhaustion would be like.

Your idea about using some kind of dictation would be nice, but the insane results from simple texting make that a nonstarter for me. Maybe my diction sucks.

Thought I'd try it with a few words from the game I just finished. Brassers=bastards?! sebiferous=cirus seb ferris?! Frasses=francis?! umbers=(initially umber then quickly shifted to numbers) umbriferous=umber ferous? And the long ones weren't even ultra rare.

Pretty sure the dictation dictionary differs greatly from what Wordtwist employs.

Not to mention the disasters of homophones.

Fair makes me tempted to pull out the brother-in-law's little word-computer-assist program and....

Oh wait, I got rid of it.

Twice.

But...

[bwt1213]

Well, Naboka, on the 5x5 game you don't have an average to defend. You could type a lot slower -- many fewer words per minute -- and push your appw score up far better than mine, AND average a higher total score than you do on the 4x4 game. You could simultaneously be among the leaders for total score and appw, and probably do pretty decently on the words/game score as well. But it is just a game, and you can choose to spend your recreation time as you wish.

[Naboka]

Well, this is looking promising.

Trying to average 10 points a word with at least 80 words. Not a concerted effort--just a casual, opportunistic approach when the board stats suggest the possibility.

Disciplining oneself not to type in all those smaller words that have become automatic over the years is proving to be harder than anticipated. Seems that trying to stop yourself really throws a wrench into your rhythms and the whole train loses momentum.

Not the kind of numbers bwt1213 puts up on 5x5, but I'm pretty happy.


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Nothing like a challenge to keep things interesting.

[DrPlacebo]

SALTINI is neither a cocktail nor the plural of saltine.