Popcap Bookworm fans: scores and strategy?

In My Humble Opinion
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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! :wink: 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. :frowning:

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. :slight_smile: Congratulations! :slight_smile:

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Does anyone know why it doesn’t accept names of places?
And it accepts some people names but not others.

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Damn you, haardvark. :wink:
New timesucker, indeed.

Well, at least this might cure my Alchemy addiction.

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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.

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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. :frowning:

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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…

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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.

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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.

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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”.

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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 :slight_smile:

Helena, sarky means sarcastic - British slang, and braw means fine or splended - of Scottish origin.

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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. :slight_smile:
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.