Gallant Efforts

[lalatan]

kate, I tried ELECTROPHANT (an electronic elephant??) first on that board too! I like that moment of anticipation just before I hit the enter key after typing in something outlandish to see if it actually works.

Today I tried BENEDICITIES but it was rejected. Strangely enough, the next game I spotted -cities again and came up with CYTOPATHOGENICITIES, which was valid. I don't recall that happening to me before.

[crazykate]

Unfortunately, ELECTROPHANT didn't work. (PHOTOELECTRONS did, but lalatan got there first.)

[Spike1007]

Not that I had much hope, but PUTREFACTOMETERS didn't work. (Maybe that's why they use cadaver dogs.)

[leabhar]

No points for pianola. According to Merriam-Webster a perfectly good word

[DrPlacebo]

And although ETHNOMUSICOLOGY is a thing (new records for best and longest word on the board), TECHNOMUSICOLOGY is not a thing.

[DrPlacebo]

No points for LEMBAS. Sorry, Tolkien fans.

[lalatan]

Unfortunately OVERJUNKIFIED was not accepted nor was JUNKIFIED. I'm sure it would have yielded a good score. But the game had a happy ending for me when I tried OVERIDENTIFIED (26/14) and it was valid.

[DrPlacebo]

No points for AQUAMAN. And now these lyrics are stuck in my head:

Hold it now and watch the hoodwink
As I make you stop, think
You'll think you're looking at Aquaman
I summon fish to the dish,
Although I like the Chalet Suisse
I like the sushi
Cause it's never touched a frying pan

(But I did get points for AQUAMARINES on the same board.)

[DrPlacebo]

HELICORE didn't work. Not sure why I even thought it might. (It's a brand of strings for violin-family instruments.)

[DrPlacebo]

METASADIST didn't count. (Someone who takes pleasure in watching other people take pleasure in the pain of others?)

[DrPlacebo]

Sadly, EVITABILITIES is not a word.

[mcdonna]

OKRATHEISTS - vegetable worshippers - sadly not a word

[crazykate]

Sadly, there is no such thing as MICROMANIA or a MICROMANIAC.

What a shame! Would that have been the opposite of a megalomaniac, or someone who was pathologically interested in tiny houses?

[DrPlacebo]

Sadly, there is no such thing as MICROMANIA or a MICROMANIAC.

[Brisul]

In the past, I may have let my ego get in the way and not gotten enough games to qualify on purpose if I knew I wouldn't make the top three. I threw my ego out the window, because I think there is still something special about finishing with a score over 900. Congrats to the players who finished in the top three. Your skills are immense.