Not many high points/high letters lately

[John13verse34]

It's inevitable, because of the way the game is constructed. Suppose you have a board with lots of nice words in it...

I agree with you on board recycling. Faster recycling of barren boards would be great.

But regarding the lack of high points & letters, i find that it's not the fact that i see high-point/letter words that have already been played (which would be solved by retirement), but it's that the boards have so few high-point/letter words to begin with! i could swear i see many more boards than i used to that have no 7+ letter words at all (on 4x4). or have only a few. so there are more boards where the longest word is 6 letters and the highest score might only be 8 or 9 points.

I know the Admin said nothing has changed, but it sure feels different to me than it did last year. Perhaps it's just wishful thinking on my part as i'm a long-word-focused player

[AdamsMuse]

Me, too. After a third of the month has passed, I still dont see many. I see some 20 letter words few and far between but I was looking for words with more letters than that. Another thing I noticed when I did see a couple of 44 point words, etc. that they were extremely difficult technical or medical words that I have never seen in my life. And I have seen plenty. Not words that we would have ever run across. Not a normal word like oversentimentalizations, etc. but like this one Antiacetylcholinesterases. I have never seen that word in my life!!! Too hard for my feeble brain. By the way that word was played by LALATAN whose brain is NOT feeble...lol. A definite wordtwist hero.