Word Blox

roberto la vigna · Post by **roberto la vigna** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 12:00 am

Am finding this game rather frustrating because:

- The program is a touch too slow; it takes too long for it to register input
- The program (especially with the sound on, it seems) struggles at the start of each cube
- You have to wait for 0.5s after one word has disappeared to input the next one
- itbox screens are generally sh*t, being either poorly calibrated; curved; flat but inset behind an over-large screen surround; or just unresponsive.
- All the above lead to typos, meaning that the clearance bonus is then impossible.

Properpro · Post by **Properpro** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 7:55 am

I've seen a player in action who has nothing but positive things to say about this game ........!

roberto la vigna · Post by **roberto la vigna** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 9:06 am

Properpro wrote:I've seen a player in action who has nothing but positive things to say about this game ........!

A bad workman etc.

cp999 · Post by **cp999** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 2:38 pm

I've got some sympathy with Bob - a misaligned screen seriously reduces your scoring potential. Which misalignment will it be today? The screen out by a uniform amount in one direction, or the screen magnified/contracted error? In fairness, I seem to remember once clearing a WU where the horizontal difference between where the tiles actually were and where the screen said they were was about 3 tiles.

dmac · Post by **dmac** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 5:35 pm

roberto la vigna · Post by **roberto la vigna** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 5:38 pm

dmac wrote:It's frustrating as f**k, i'd rather play Scrabble with 20p corners

lol

dmac · Post by **dmac** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 1:55 pm

cp999 · Post by **cp999** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 11:10 am

Istenem wrote:i heard talk of a fixed-level JP

Yes, the level for the JP is indeed fixed, but I suspect not in the way in which you were meaning when you made that post.. (this game has clearly been reprogrammed, but you're not likely to notice unless you can get 10k+ with regularity).

ggdr · Post by **ggdr** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 12:57 pm

Saw some monstrous Word Blox scores at the Arndale Centre in Manchester yesterday. Possibly 10 instances of a 10,000 plus score, with the top being 11,3xx. Anyone want to claim this?

cp999 · Post by **cp999** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 12:22 am

ggdr wrote:Saw some monstrous Word Blox scores at the Arndale Centre in Manchester yesterday. Possibly 10 instances of a 10,000 plus score, with the top being 11,3xx. Anyone want to claim this?

Not guillty, but you gave me the opportunity to indulge in some pointless bragging. Got over 12k recently.

roberto la vigna · Post by **roberto la vigna** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 4:36 pm

cp999 wrote:pointless bragging.

Bragging is never pointless!

dmac · Post by **dmac** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 7:55 pm

roberto la vigna · Post by **roberto la vigna** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 8:56 am

dmac wrote:got 1780 on Boggle today

*about 90 more than that one in St Paul's and about 10 lower than the one in Perth

Nice one, dmac.

Ernest and I spotted a 2000+ in Leeds a couple of years ago, hence the disappearance of the Boggle scores section from the selves-congratulatory vb website.

dmac · Post by **dmac** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 7:01 pm

roberto la vigna · Post by **roberto la vigna** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 10:22 pm

dmac wrote:Yeah there were all sorts of crazy scores around.

I would love to see someone rock out a massive score on Boggle. I've had the odd moment where everything is flowing but would usually get derailed by trying Scrabble words that the game doesn't take.

Shame to see Puzzler disappear.