# Popcap Bookworm fans: scores and strategy? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 3, 2002, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popcap-bookworm-fans-scores-and-strategy/130626 "2002-10-03T02:11:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tarragon918](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@tarragon918](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tarragon918)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2002, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popcap-bookworm-fans-scores-and-strategy/130626/21 "2002-10-03T21:31:37Z")
Okay, home now and can make a better reply! I’ve been discussing the title Bookworm gave when I scored the 1 million pts. (while still in Beta, mind you; I think they’ve tightened things up since then); it was verbalist or something like that. Argh, wish I could remember it! LOL I should have done what Helena did! 😉 I -love- Bookworm, but have found that after a while my eyes start to hurt and sometimes I’ve let the tiles burn up the library. ☹ My newest addiction is the new Beta game, Word Shark! It took me a while to get going on this game (I got to the Bermuda Triangle, level 20-something on the mid-level version); now I play in Expert mode; I’ve gotten up to level 9 in Expert. LOL The toxic sharks where the numbers & letters change always get me in expert! Helena, great going on removal! and fantastic score–I think that’s above grand archivist. 🙂 Congratulations! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2002, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popcap-bookworm-fans-scores-and-strategy/130626/22 "2002-10-03T21:41:51Z")
Does anyone know why it doesn’t accept names of places? And it accepts some people names but not others. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2002, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popcap-bookworm-fans-scores-and-strategy/130626/23 "2002-10-03T22:26:48Z")
Damn you, haardvark. 😉 New timesucker, indeed. Well, at least this might cure my Alchemy addiction. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2002, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popcap-bookworm-fans-scores-and-strategy/130626/24 "2002-10-03T22:59:01Z")
I think I have you all beat… I’ve played two games. The first game, I was figuring out the rules. The second game, I played for two days, had 600,000+ points and a totally clear board, and just got bored and stopped. ---
**Author:** ![Kayeby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de0a6/32.png) [@Kayeby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kayeby)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2002, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popcap-bookworm-fans-scores-and-strategy/130626/25 "2002-10-05T08:20:13Z")
I just finished a game. My high score was 1,017,940 with the title of Lexographer. I got lazy and much too cocky towards the end. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Rosebud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@Rosebud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rosebud)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2002, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popcap-bookworm-fans-scores-and-strategy/130626/26 "2002-10-05T15:17:09Z")
Yeah, I’m addicted to this one too… question, though-- does it ever actually END? For instance, **Kayeby** , when you said you finished a game, do you mean finished as in it ended or finished as in hurled the mouse at the monitor and stormed off swearing? Um… not that I’ve ever done that… heh… um… ---
**Author:** ![Kayeby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de0a6/32.png) [@Kayeby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kayeby)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2002, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popcap-bookworm-fans-scores-and-strategy/130626/27 "2002-10-05T15:56:13Z")
Well … it finished in a bitter howl of disappointment with lots of red blocks on the screen. “Nooooo! I was so sure they’d accept _duh_. Nooooooo!” So I didn’t so much finish the game as much as _it_ finished _me_. ---
**Author:** ![Mystery\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f14d63/32.png) [@Mystery\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mystery_Dog)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2002, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popcap-bookworm-fans-scores-and-strategy/130626/28 "2002-10-05T17:17:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Helena \* > \*\*My husband and I have been playing a lot! He got **dependant** once, and it _didn’t know it_, so he changed it to “pendant” and that went through. \*\* The game once gave me a message indicating that its vocabulary doesn’t know _any_ nine-letter words, but expects to include them in future versions. ---
**Author:** ![benson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@benson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/benson)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2002, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popcap-bookworm-fans-scores-and-strategy/130626/29 "2002-10-06T01:19:34Z")
My strategy is to not use the gold tiles. I don’t know why most of yours are burning, but for me, once they’re at the bottom, they catch all the red ones, and your game can go forever. I went over 1M last night just to see what title I would get, which was Lexographer. My best word was “icky”, which scored me over 8700 points. **Helena** , the reason “dependant” didn’t work, is because you’re thinking of “dependEnt”. ---
**Author:** ![Washte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Washte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washte)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2002, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popcap-bookworm-fans-scores-and-strategy/130626/30 "2002-10-11T21:26:09Z")
I, too, am addicted to this game. I often download it in the morning and keep it on the desktop to play throughout the day. Today has been my best so far: Total score of: 707880 Title of: Lexographer 1st Class Longest word: Elastic Highest scoring word: Guaged (8640 pts) Scrabble with a twist 🙂 **Helena** , _sarky_ means sarcastic - British slang, and _braw_ means fine or splended - of Scottish origin. ---
**Author:** ![Wicked\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/2acd7d/32.png) [@Wicked\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wicked_Blue)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2002, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popcap-bookworm-fans-scores-and-strategy/130626/31 "2002-10-12T13:25:14Z")
Last weekend I played for about four hours and quit once I hit a million. My title was ‘Dictionarist’ or something. (I’m sure I’ll think of it once I hit submit.) I could have kept going, but my husband was nagging me to go grocery shopping. 🙂 My best word was ‘scooter’ which had two gold and two green tiles, and scored me something like 17,500 points. I love that game, but I just don’t have the spare time to play it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popcap-bookworm-fans-scores-and-strategy/130626.md?page=1)