Good guess! It was REEDS.
8037 on my first attempt.
I disagree. I think it’s designed completely intuitively. After all, when you look at alphabetized lists, usually the "A"s are on top and the "Z"s are on the bottom. I can’t think of ever seeing it otherwise.
Well, then I’m either dumb or weird. :: shrug ::
Naw, just backwards. 
I’m weird when it comes to those third-person shooter games–I always have to use the “invert” controls to control my sight camera because it seems more intuitive to me to pull back on the stick (down) to look up and push forward on the stick (up) to look down.
Me, too! Besides the fact I can’t play shooter games because I totally get way too into them and become really freaked out.
[sub]Like way back when Doom 1 was The Game. I was playing my brother’s copy and he had these surrounding-the-ear headphones. I’m playing and getting more nervous because I know I’m gonna get fuckin shot and KILLED, MAN. And I’m walking and walking and not seeing anything to kill BUT I CAN HEAR THAT DAMN IMP AND HE’S GOING TO KILL ME I JUST KNOW IT OH MY GOD WHERE IS HE and then my mom taps me on the shoulder to ask me something. I almost punched her face out with how freaked out I got. Luckily she ducked in time. :D[/sub]
The first round had me stuck between hyena and icing (the word was hyper), but after that, I did OK.
10607 on my first go. Whoop!
I think I’ve found a daily fixture…
Wow, I just got 15,200! I’m in top place for the day! (I decided I was going to be from St. Louis, since the town where I live is too small for anonymity.)
Yay you! I’ve never been higher than 15th!
Nice job! I’m still just over 10,000 for my high score.
I still haven’t broken 7000, and I want to kill you.
If it makes you feel better, my usual score is more like 7000-8000, and at least half the games I play have at least one round where I had to give up.
OK, better. Now I just want to beat you senseless with a rake.
I got 11073 shortly after midnight yesterday and was in first place on the daily chart. Woo-hoo! Only to have my ranking knocked down to 87th place by the time I woke up in the morning :-(.
How the heck do people consistently break 12000? I only got to 11000 by playing for 4 solid, freaking hours. Most of my scores were in the 4000 to 8000 range.
I hate this game, you all suck, and curse you Interrobang!?. Currrsse Youuuuuuuuu!!
And oh yeah…
Match
tapes
opens
table
props
tabby
pumps
style
putty
strut
quake
stray
queen
straw
quiet
strap
quilt
strew
quite
steer
quest
steed
stars
stark
stare
stack
stabs
shear
share
rabbit
…kill me
Bah! Humbug!
I love this game.
The key is speed. As long as each subsequent guess keeps you in that x4 range, you can guess in the double digits and still get fairly high marks. All it takes is getting stumped once, and you’re kinda hosed for that round (if you’re shooting for a 5-digit final score).
For example: I just got over 11000, but my average guess count was over 13 (my quickest was only 10).
But each round, I made sure I kept in the x4 range, and that’s what put me in the Top 50 (for now).