New dictionary and new boards

[lovesGod]

Thank you, Stephen!

[floppers]

so much better than "over exaggerating" though, I'm pretty sure if one of my offspring says that again, I will blow a fuse.

I explain why that's not a thing, but they just persist....I wonder if they do it just to...I don't know, I'm just going to put it down to "attachment seeking" (which is a best served cold phrase), when I'm "attachment seeking", I can get really subtle.

[lalatan]

Thanks floppers. I deleted that line, probably just overreacting as usual.

[floppers]

Lalatan, I hope you don't mean actually silent...you are waaaaay funny most of the time! and if you need some support on some of the new words, check with the grandkiddies.

Everyone plays for different reasons, or no reason at all.

Luenig:

"Let it go,
Let it out,
Let it all unravel,
Let it free
And it will be
A path on which to travel."

I'm considering becoming the President of your fanclub. (like, not in a weird stalkery kind of way).

Flops, Out. xxxx

By the way, I'm picking that the more talented amongst our lovely community could write an essay incorporating some, if not all, of the new words. We've been playing around with it here....

[lalatan]

Arabesque: thanks for taking the time to write what you did yesterday.

[kittencaboodle]

Lovely, thank you for this! I'm not concerned about my rating, I just play for love and the momentary glory of a win!

[admin]

Hi Stephen - i just noticed that my scores are not showing my standing with other players like before. is there a way i can fix that? checked settings, etc. but i'm stumped. TY for your help!

It looks like you don't have enough points yet to be in the top 100 for the month on 5x5, though you're close. Once you reach that threshold you should show up. But if you mean you're not seeing previous stats at the end of each puzzle, that's because we launched a new puzzle library yesterday - it will take about 3-5 days before the majority of puzzles start to show previous solving statistics.

[lovesGod]

Hi Stephen - i just noticed that my scores are not showing my standing with other players like before. is there a way i can fix that? checked settings, etc. but i'm stumped. TY for your help!

[lalatan]

Well, Stephen, I'm happy to say you proved me wrong about individual records probably not being restored after yesterday. After last October's server change the totals went askew and you said they couldn't be undone. I apologize for my somewhat harsh words to you yesterday. (I was very pissed off.)
You've been taking on some long-standing problems so I applaud your diligence. Wordtwist is #1 for long words.

[admin]

Thanks for that - I've fixed RECOVERABLENESS (and 519 similar singulars which weren't listed) just now. Also, HYDROCHLOROFLUOROCARBONS will absolutely work now - I made sure to fix that one as we've had numerous complaints in the past. There will undoubtedly be other singulars/plurals in the 15+ letter range that aren't represented properly, please continue to post them here or email me directly and I will fix them as we find them.

[Spike1007]

Stephen, thanks for the plurals!

I've run across the singular/plural problem before, more often where the singular works & the plural doesn't. I was kind of resigned to that (although the fact that HYDROCHLOROFLUOROCARBONS didn't work bothered me), but as BoggleOtaku points out, some cases lack consistency.

[BoggleOtaku]

The opposite case is where the singular works but not the plural: recoverablenesses does not work, while recoverableness, irrecoverableness, and irrecoverablenesses do.

[6winner9]

It's tougher for longer words like these as there are no good standardized word lists over 15 letters (since that's the Scrabble limit).

Thanks for this.

In another bogg realm, admin was like, we'll just cap it at 15. It seems obvious enough that the cap on a 16 letter board should be 16 letters, but the world does contain dumbasses.

[admin]

I was wondering if that had kicked in yet. I just got SUPERDIABOLOCALNESSES (40 points) and had never seen that before. By the way, SUPERDIABOLICALNESS doesn't work.

Thanks for catching that - I've fixed that particular puzzle for now, and will run a more thorough check to search for any instances where a singular case is not represented properly in our dictionary. It's tougher for longer words like these as there are no good standardized word lists over 15 letters (since that's the Scrabble limit).

UPDATE: Fixed non-appearing singular versions in just about 1,000 puzzles just now. Thanks again!

[John13verse34]

Individual records have been restored (at least 99.5% of them) as of this morning.

Thanks!! :-)