WARNING: If you like Boggle, close this thread. Close the whole window, log off the internet, turn off the computer, and go watch Full House reruns until your brain dribbles out your ears so you will have no memory of any of this.
I just spent about four hours playing this stupid game. I couldn’t lose. Every time a new group of letters popped up, I could see the 6 letter word right off. I couldn’t stop. Four hours! I’d never made it past a handful of rounds before tonight.
Final score: 110,550.
Word that finally got me: Malign. I mean, who thinks to put the G by the N?
No. no. no. it’s not Text Twist that’s addictive for me, but Collapse! I tell you, since that one came out I have wasted more time playing it than I care to think about. My highest score was a little over 1.3 million, putting me in the top two percent of players, but all that does is make me want to play more, to up my ranking. Must…resist…aagghhhhh!
My sister got me addicted to this game via www.shockwave.com. She was playing it once, and I came into the room. Since she thinks I’m good at word games (Scrabble, Boggle, etc.), she got me to help her. Eventually, working together, we managed to get a high score of around half of what Smeghead’s was.
I hate it when I can’t easily see the six-letter word, as it measn that I’ll have to really think about it, and see what it could possibly be. When it becomes apparent that I’ll never get that magic word in time for the round to end, I wait for it to pop up. Usually when I see it, I’m kicking myself.
Here’s a tip: if there’s an “S” in the word, make sure you get all the plurals of the singular words! I cannot stress this enough. I have lost games because of this.
My BF have taken to playing this in the evenings as a team.
We even played last Saturday evening when we returned from a bar totally shnockered and kicked Butt! (by our standards, at least)
He’s better at filling in the 4 and 5 letter words, I’m better at the 3 and 6 letter words. Perfect team!
I did the same thing refusal did. And that’s a surprising point to come to. I mean you’re so happy to break 50,000 and then 75,000 and then 100,000. And then oh my God the best game ever. And you keep playing and playing and playing. And your score goes up and up and your ass starts hurting. And you begin to get a little hungry. And slowly you begin to wish you’d miss a word because you’ve already quintupled your best score. And the oh, oh here it is I have no idea what the big word is and then damn you get it at the last second. You mouse flies like Hermes across the screen and you don’t think you’re going to make it and then boom you get it just as time runs out. But then you get a new set of words and you look at the screen. You take a deep sigh and close the window.
But it was a great game up until then. I must have played it for 8 hours that first day it was put up. Nah, I’d say it was the best game on the net until it was mastered. I wish it had more bells and whistles. Like if you get all words 3 times in a row you get a ton of points. Or once you get 100 words it goes to 7 letters in length to make it’s replay value better.
I like to play this at www.gamehouse.com. There is a chat window, where the players help each other out. Yeah, I need help sometimes, plus it’s fun to help the others. Quite a few regulars there.
I too was once addicted to TextTwist, but got very angry with it when it continually rejected valid words. Not just brand names, or slang, but regular words. So many times I was sure I had the 6 letter word, only to have it reject me. Once the game only claimed 1 6-letter word, I came up with 3 valid words before finding the one it wanted. Frustrating!
And then some of the words it does accept don’t make much sense in comparison. I agree, after a while you get to know all the words it likes. It’s kind of like doing crossword puzzles, there’s those same words that always get used. So after you play it enough you do get tired of it. I’m also tired of collapse, after nearly crippling my mouse hand from repetitive stress.