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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 8:24 am
by roberto la vigna
Please, please set up a Word Soup
Longest Word National Board
Would be a good idea, as long-word-finding games usually end up in a half-cleared dog's dinner of a grid and sub-800 point score, so profitable for you lot.
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:11 am
by Ernest W. Quality
It's not really a national board unless it's across all cabinets.
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 12:12 pm
by roberto la vigna
Ernest W. Quality wrote:It's not really a national board unless it's across all cabinets.
And when has that ever happened?
It's a national board if you can place by playing in any town in the country.
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 12:24 pm
by fotherz
Alternatively, give me the trophy now.
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 12:39 pm
by roberto la vigna
Fotherz, this cockiness gives all word game supremos a bad name.
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 1:00 pm
by Ernest W. Quality
roberto la vigna wrote:Ernest W. Quality wrote:It's not really a national board unless it's across all cabinets.
And when has that ever happened?
It's a national board if you can place by playing in any town in the country.
You can't, there isn't a machine in every town.
I was extremely close to getting an 18 letter word last Friday.
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 4:18 pm
by roberto la vigna
Ernest W. Quality wrote:You can't, there isn't a machine in every town.
I don't quite know what you're getting at with all this.
I managed MULTIMILLIONAIRES on Saturday.
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 5:24 pm
by Nil Satis
roberto la vigna wrote:I managed MULTIMILLIONAIRES on Saturday.
Are you Rafa Benitez then?
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 7:54 am
by WaterGate
I am actually not trying to be sarcastic here, but wouldn't this board just have you 4 on it? So what's the point?
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 9:38 am
by Properpro
WaterGate wrote:I am actually not trying to be sarcastic here, but wouldn't this board just have you 4 on it? So what's the point?
For once Watergate's posted something I understand, and he's right, isn't he?
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 12:21 pm
by roberto la vigna
WaterGate wrote:I am actually not trying to be sarcastic here, but wouldn't this board just have you 4 on it? So what's the point?
To root out other good players and inspire the masses!
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 12:26 pm
by fotherz
Dave
Jon
Civ
A&A
All capable of beating us in this category.
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 12:34 pm
by roberto la vigna
fotherz wrote:Dave
Jon
Civ
A&A
All capable of beating us in this category.
Too right - it would be a good fight, for sure.
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 12:59 pm
by Istenem
in theory i'd welcome one of these but in practice it would become like the top scores of scrabulous where there were 20 jokers who had achieved their life's work by setting up OXYPHENBUTAZONE
scanning ENABLE and planning a specific word/words to get is all very well but it does rather stick two fingers up at the spontaneity of the game.
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 1:21 pm
by roberto la vigna
Istenem wrote:scanning ENABLE and planning a specific word/words to get is all very well but it does rather stick two fingers up at the spontaneity of the game.
Well, it just becomes a different kind of task.
What I would like about it is that it would upskill players, showing them that it is possible to manipulate the grid to create real biggies and implying that many of the big total scores are achieved thanks to these words' contribution.
Anyway, there can still be spontaneity in having a promising candidate pop into your head or in artful shifting of the tiles.