A few nights ago, actually. I wrote a program to generate every single word that can be made from a string of seven letters, just to play TextTwist. I got a really good (Scrabble) dictionary, and I got over 300,000 points on Text Twist. Isn’t that sad?
Yeah, that is kinda pathetic. But kinda cool at the same time. I love TextTwist.
Geeky to the max. Congrats.
It’s fun to enter every single word before the clock gets down to a minute. Then again, my dictionary doesn’t have all the three-letter words, like ‘ade’ and ‘yar’. My program itself is less than 100 lines long, though it’d probably be a lot longer if I put in a GUI. (Graphical User Interface)
Piker.
I used a legitimate anagram finder to cheat my way to about two million before the game was reset for some reason.
Robin
As far as I can tell from looking at it, that anagram finder probably works the same way that I wrote my program, and at least I wrote my program myself instead of finding someone else’s. I was just at about 240,000, but Firefox crashed.
My method for “cheating” at Text Twist isn’t as sophisticated.
I noticed that if you look at the six-letter word, the order in which all the other, shorter words are alphabetized is the order of the letters in the six-letter word, reversed.
For example, if the six-letter word is QUOTAS, then the three-letter words will be arranged with those starting with S at the top, then the A words, then T, etc., down to the Q words (of which there won’t be any). The four- and five-letter words will be arranged in the same order.
If there’s more than one six-letter word, it will be the order of the letters in the top one.
So if I’ve got only a few words remaining, I can look over there and (usually) make a pretty good guess as to what they’ll start with.
I dislike text twist because quite often, I’ll think of perfectly legitimate words that the program doesn’t recognize. Words like “ere” and “adze” are never used. Bah!
Actually, ‘ere’ is quite common. I’ll give you ‘adze’, but in enough playing to net me 240,000 and 309,00 points, I’ve seen, I think, two rounds with ‘Z’ in them.
I get pissed off when a word is valid in one game and invalid in another.
Also, I wish plurals were disallowed.
Meh…I like Word Whomp better. They alphabetize the words as you guess them and it makes it easy sometimes, to figure out a missing word.
Plus the gophers are cute.
what is Text Twist? Is it an online game? If so could someone please provde a link to it?
thanks
http://games.yahoo.com/games/downloads/tx.html
Without a dictionary I got upto 7250.
laser is a word? Damn that stupid program. Most of these word games don’t accept acronyms. I was on a roll my scroe was upto 820.