New dictionary and new boards

[iBnutz]

I'm sorry to hear about your friends BTW. What a sweet memory with the "dime". Sending prayers & well wishes.

[MegaWord]

DEMONETARIZATION accepted, but not MONETARIZATION.

[DonGuy47]

"he introduced me and my wife and gave me a dime to call her and ask her out." That's awesome!

[John13verse34]

I'm very sad to hear of your loss, bwt. I've lost two close friends in the last two months -- neither to COVID -- and both were younger than me. That's been a very sobering exprience :-/ It may get more common as we get older, but that doesn't make it any easier. Hugs to you and yours.

[Spike1007]

I look for boards that have at least two 9+ letter ultra-rare words. Maybe I should be more particular. (I actually keep track of that for boards I play. I should do a little data analysis on that & see what it tells me.)

bwt, I'm very sorry to hear about your friends. I'm getting up there somewhat, and losing more and more friends & family is one of the curses of getting older.

[lalatan]

My condolences to you, bwt.

[bwt1213]

When I went for highest average points per word (I think I won every month for about a year, a while back, as bwt121346) I found that the best boards were ones with LOTS of words and with high average points per word (way over five, at least). Every once in a while, you'd get a board where it showed just one word longer than 8 letters and it would be WAY longer, but that's not the way to bet. On another note, I'm not feeling too good; last week, I got news that an old friend had died. Today, I found that another had; he introduced me and my wife and gave me a dime to call her and ask her out. I guess it's true; if you live long enough, you get the privilege of burying all your friends. This really hurts.

[BoggleOtaku]

I was trying for most words in a month and did my personal best at a 2nd place when the great reset happened, and I decided to try a broader range of boards (fewer words) to try to find longer words for a change of pace. I'm assuming boards with really long words will have fewer total words, although the statistics away from the extreme by nonrandom creation of boards, and creation method may change over time. I've seen some discussion of this in the past and wonder what might be the average total words for a board with a 24 or 25 letter word.

[admin]

RECONVALESCENCE accepted, but not the plural.

Added now, thanks!

[MegaWord]

RECONVALESCENCE accepted, but not the plural.

[lalatan]

Also I'm excited to have bested a word submitted by lalatan. A rare occurrence, whereas mine I'm sure are eaten for lunch.

Good find BoggleOtaku. STRATIGRAPH- was a new word for me (like so many recently). Typically I'd look it up after the game to see what else could be paired with it but I haven't been doing that for the last month. (Too many new words to find.) And, yes, I have enjoyed a number of best/longest word lunches you provided this month. In the past I didn't see your username on those records too often. I'm impressed with some of the long words you come up with while playing mainly for high score and most words (something I could never effectively do when I tried in my early years here). That seems to be a trend with speed players since the Great Wordtwist Stat Reset last month.

[admin]

QUIETED, DISQUIETED, DISQUIETEDNESS(ES) accepted but not QUIETEDNESS(ES)

QUIETEDNESS (and plural) are not words in CSW19, nor any other dictionaries as far as I can see, so they will not be added.

[BoggleOtaku]

QUIETED, DISQUIETED, DISQUIETEDNESS(ES) accepted but not QUIETEDNESS(ES)

Also I'm excited to have bested a word submitted by lalatan. A rare occurrence, whereas mine I'm sure are eaten for lunch.

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[admin]

parenthesises, not parentheses?

Both are allowed in the CSW19 dictionary.

On a board just played EXCOMMUNICATING was accepted but not EXCOMMUNICANT.

EXCOMMUINICANT is not in CSW19, nor are any direct variants used in our dictionary, so it will not be added.

[lalatan]

On a board just played EXCOMMUNICATING was accepted but not EXCOMMUNICANT.