High score games retired early?

[BoggleOtaku]

Thanks, bwt1213, I guess that explains it--I'll look for your earlier posts. Yes, it makes it hard to go head-to-head with a high scoring player. It would be similarly disappointing if board with 24 or 25 letter words were retired as soon as the word was found. I hope at least they are recycled back quickly.

[bwt1213]

Like you, I have not seen my higher score games repeated (almost all are under 600), and no boards recently from players like Brisul that only go for high score games (>1000 average)

Some time back, I suggested that boards only be retired because they'd been played too many times, and not for scores. The previous programming had been that any board on which a score greater than 600 had been achieved would be retired as soon as the daemon found it. My objection was not so much that I thought I could beat that score, but that I'd know the board was worth playing. If RussDNails got 860, maybe I could do well, too. And if MegaWord or Fasteddieb scored 1200, I'd play that board in an instant and hope to get more than half their score. At this stage of my game, I don't really expect to beat anyone's high score any more. But if I recognize the player and they scored more than their average, perhaps I could, too.

[Naboka]

Curiouser and curiouser.

[BoggleOtaku]

Like you, I have not seen my higher score games repeated (almost all are under 600), and no boards recently from players like Brisul that only go for high score games (>1000 average)

[Naboka]

I have been wondering for a month or two now... I want to raise my high score games and look for games played by MegaWord, RussDNails, etc. with 5x5 scores approaching 1000. But recently, over the last few few months, I feel like fewer such boards are appearing. For example, I have seen many boards with RussDNails holding the record with scores under 600 and (almost?) none over 600, yet his monthly average is 700+. This is making me wonder if boards with high best score records are being retired early. Has anyone else noticed this?

I've noticed it on the 4X4's.

I've been clicking through 2,000 -3,000 plus games a day for the same reason as you. Looking for promising games to learn new words.

I know it's that many games because I alternate fingers on my right hand, holding down "control" and clicking "r," counting a hundred each finger before moving on to the next. To spread the stress on tendons.

So, in the last 60 days, that's at least 150,000 games. That should be a pretty good sampling of games available.

Finding anything over 600 points is rare. 700? 800? 900? 1,000? forget it. Maybe a 600 pointer once a week or so.

I see dozens of games I've played in the 500's so I know there's a constant stream of repeated games. But only came across one at exactly 600 points this morning. And, I've done a couple dozen games over 600 this month alone.

Seeing it made me wonder your exact same question. What's happened to all the high scores?

Could retiring boards early be an additional source of all the new boards appearing flush with lots and lots of words? And the stream is flooded with new boards.

Now that I think of it, I haven't seen a game played by ThunderRock in months. And nothing by Megaword or Boysmom over 600. (Well, there was a single 800 pointer by Boysmom last month--which really stood out because of the above.)

[BoggleOtaku]

I have been wondering for a month or two now... I want to raise my high score games and look for games played by MegaWord, RussDNails, etc. with 5x5 scores approaching 1000. But recently, over the last few few months, I feel like fewer such boards are appearing. For example, I have seen many boards with RussDNails holding the record with scores under 600 and (almost?) none over 600, yet his monthly average is 700+. This is making me wonder if boards with high best score records are being retired early. Has anyone else noticed this?