# Friday Afternoon Word Play Game

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-afternoon-word-play-game/153540>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 7, 2003, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-afternoon-word-play-game/153540 "2003-02-07T19:54:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2003, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-afternoon-word-play-game/153540/1 "2003-02-07T19:54:44Z")

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I saw some people doing this at a bar:

Every letter in the alphabet is given a number from 1-26 (a=1, b=2, c=3, etc.). Every word is given a numerical rating equivelant to the multiplication of all of the letters in that word (cat=60…3 x 1 x 20). Their goal was to find a word closest to 5,000,000. I think violin was about 4.5 mil or something.

Let’s try to make it as close to 10,000,000. I’ll start with an easy one to beat: **Bettered** 7,200,000.

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**Author:** ![merge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9f8e36/32.png) [@merge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/merge)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2003, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-afternoon-word-play-game/153540/2 "2003-02-07T20:14:12Z")

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well it is **February** and all…

damn that was pretty close…

If anyone comes closer than that… you have too much time on your hands…  
10,206,000

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**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2003, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-afternoon-word-play-game/153540/3 "2003-02-07T20:17:30Z")

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**plower** = 7,441,920

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**Author:** ![SylverOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SylverOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SylverOne)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2003, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-afternoon-word-play-game/153540/4 "2003-02-07T20:36:28Z")

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numeric = 9,287,460

ironic?

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**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2003, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-afternoon-word-play-game/153540/5 "2003-02-07T20:40:52Z")

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**Outdated** = 10,080,000

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**Author:** ![Jpeg\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@Jpeg\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jpeg_Jones)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2003, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-afternoon-word-play-game/153540/6 "2003-02-07T21:41:15Z")

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Well, if my name was **Betty Dee** , I’d have a perfect score.