Green on 50+

[walden123]

[Spike1007]

Today I found QUADRATES on a board played 50 times. (20 points where the previous best word was 16 points.) I didn't take it. I did better on boards played 49 times (CYTODIFFERENTIATION) and 48 times (PALAEOCLIMATOLOGIST). On the last two, I added CYTO- and PALAEO- to the previous best words, for 36 points each.

[DrPlacebo]

Board with 52 plays.

10 green words: DEMISS, DEMISSION, IMINE, IMINES, IMINO, OMBUS, SEISIN, SENSI, SENSIS, SENSIST

Several of these words are from fields where I have some expertise: IMINE, IMINES, and IMINO from organic chemistry (undergrad biology major) and SEISIN from law (current profession).

[DrPlacebo]

Board with 49 plays, making me the 50th.

Total points: 581 New record!
Total words: 102 (56 common,16 wide,10 rare,20 ultra rare)
Best word: FRAGMENTIZATIONS (33 pts.) New record!
Longest word: FRAGMENTIZATIONS (16 letters) New record!

11 green words: ACTIN, ACTINS, AGEIST, FRAGMENTIZATIONS, NEGATION, NEGATIONS, PATIO, PATIOS, RAITA, RAITAS, SEPTA

Note: the singular FRAGMENTIZATION was not accepted, which has been the case for some long singular words in this game where the plural has been accepted. I typed it twice to make sure. The previous record for both best and longest word was FRAGMENTIZES.

[JoanM19]

That was fun, finally got a puzzle that had been played 50 times,,, and got a green word. desses

[FelixTheCat]

I originally took it as common words, but I also decided that any previously unfound words made more sense in this context. Let's see what FelixTheCat says.

Yes, that's what I intended. "Shows up in green" at the end of the game.

My thought was that, if a game has been played 50 or more times and you are the first person to find a word (i.e. it shows up green), then you can log it here to "brag" about your originality in finding something 50+ people had overlooked.

The word doesn't have to be spectacular in itself--though some people have found truly spectacular ones, I see!! IMPERATORSHIPS from Spike1007 for example! Like DrPlacebo noted above, some letter patterns are definitely hard to spot; he/she mentioned TYPICAL and TYPICALLY as examples. Starting with vowels is also something that often goes un-noticed. I've sometimes found fairly simple words in older games that start with vowels--INTO, for example.

[Spike1007]

I originally took it as common words, but I also decided that any previously unfound words made more sense in this context. Let's see what FelixTheCat says.

[crazykate]

Wait, are those green words?

By "green" words, are we talking about unfound words or common words? Because I took it to mean "common" words that hadn't been found before.

I took it to mean "words that show up in green", i.e. previously unfound words.

[DrPlacebo]

On a board played 50 times (with a longest previous word of 8 letters), I just got IMPERATORSHIPS (for 16 points) and IMPERATORSHIP (for 24). I didn't want to screw up my pts/word average, so I didn't take it.

Wait, are those green words?

By "green" words, are we talking about unfound words or common words? Because I took it to mean "common" words that hadn't been found before.

[bwt1213]

Thanks. I'd heard IMPERATOR before (in Mad Max: Fury Road, Charlize Theron was Imperator Furiosa) although I was never sure it was a real word until I tried it here. (I was looking for something to go along with -SHIP(S) & that was all I found.) I've never heard or read ANTIPHILOPROGENITIVE, and most likely never could have cobbled it together. If I manage to remember it, maybe I'll find it one day.

Actually, I immediately knew what the word antiphiloprogenitive meant. But then again, I am the eldest son and I would. However, my maternal grandfather left Sweden with five of his brothers because none of them were first-born. The eldest son inherited the farm and it wasn't big enough for more than one family. On my father's side, I was the eldest (of three); my father was the eldest (of four sons); his father was the eldest of three sons; his father was the eldest, etc. When I did a family tree in High School biology class, the "eldest" thing went back at least seven generations on that side. Of course, that covers only legitimate children, recorded births, and allows for no infidelity or such things. It never pays to be too proud of one's ancestry, because no one is ever really sure unless a DNA test is done.

[Spike1007]

Thanks. I'd heard IMPERATOR before (in Mad Max: Fury Road, Charlize Theron was Imperator Furiosa) although I was never sure it was a real word until I tried it here. (I was looking for something to go along with -SHIP(S) & that was all I found.) I've never heard or read ANTIPHILOPROGENITIVE, and most likely never could have cobbled it together. If I manage to remember it, maybe I'll find it one day.

[lalatan]

Good find Spike! I just learned yet another word I never heard or saw before.
Speaking of which, yesterday I played a board where Nafets owned the best word for 38 pts. I couldn't find anything so I let it time out. I thought I had seen pretty well every word 38+ pts but he found ANTIPHILOPROGENITIVE.

[Spike1007]

On a board played 50 times (with a longest previous word of 8 letters), I just got IMPERATORSHIPS (for 16 points) and IMPERATORSHIP (for 24). I didn't want to screw up my pts/word average, so I didn't take it.

[DrPlacebo]

I like your idea. I have another to propose to the administrator: once a game has been played more than 30 times (or 40, or whatever), ANY word found that was not previously found should be counted as ultra-rare. It's pretty clear that some very common words are almost impossible to find in a particular board because of where they are or how the letters are arranged. Someone who finds them should be given a bonus. And another thing -- for such words (not previously found) -- the "best word" title should also be awarded, even if the word would otherwise not have been enough points.

Certain letter patterns are definitely much harder to find. I just found two green words on a board with 39 plays: TYPICAL and TYPICALLY. And I'm not the slightest bit surprised that they escaped notice so many times, because I'm guessing very few people will zero in on the first four letters.

[FelixTheCat]

I got feare, feares, meare, meares, miso, saree, simi, and trapt on a board w/ 50 plays just now.

Impressive!