Can't find the old WU thread, so I'll just make a new one

mr lugsy · Post by **mr lugsy** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 2:52 pm

spotted in cheltenham yates a familar name from this forum at top of the highscoring word board with a 216 . a mere few quid later and i ousted it with sizzles for 217 ,nothing at all remarkable but still top

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 9:18 pm

EXISTENTIALISTIC (624 i think). it means just about enough more than EXISTENTIAL to be a real word.

mr lugsy · Post by **mr lugsy** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 10:17 pm

bloody hell ,sometimes i don't score that much in a game

i've got a few concerns over some of the words that are'nt considered to be proper england;

for instance it does'nt seem to take any 'crap' or 'craps' ,but luckily i can 'carp' on to my hearts content.

fotherz · Post by **fotherz** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 10:29 pm

Very good, if a bit Scrabbly.

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 10:38 pm

no 16s in scrabble Fotherz, but i agree it is a bit iffy.
re. bad swears, you can kinda understand why they did it for wider outreach beyond the pub. but i think it likes CRAPSHOT, i'm a big fan of crapping out and other dice terminology. also MOTHERFUCKER has been done and allowed, no doubt the good people of the mitre in cambridge have been writing to their MP about this outrage.

Mitre, Cambridge EW QUALITY MOTHERFUCKER 324

fotherz · Post by **fotherz** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 1:00 am

BULLSHITTER has been done.

Surprisingly nobody has gone for BASTARDIZED (yet).

JG · Post by JG » Fri Sep 25, 2009 1:10 am

Is Word UP forceable?

For example if Istenem totally killed the game with a few words like SQUIBBLYFABLIOCIOUSATROCIOUSNESS and HARPSOMONIOMOCHORQWZQQQD and left it dead, how much would it cost me, someone who gets pleased with a five letter word such as livid, devil, tepid, harps, snail, hoops or tuned to force out the jackpot?

Let's say I whacked a quick K over the back on Word up when dead, would it be easily jackpottable?

I often see people put a few K over the back of Rainbow Riches and Reel King and wish they'd do it with Word up. Just because it doesn't have leprechauns spinning around and dinging noises, I don't see why it is disregarded in this fashion.

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 11:09 am

Based on the oft-mentioned 30% payout rate on SWPs, it ought in theory to take £33 of losing credits (without any £1 wins being taken in the meantime) to go into a Word Up that had just paid out a JP to be ready to pay out another £10 JP. In practice I'd say it would take quite a bit more than that, although of course players' ability to exploit that 'readiness' varies considerably.

mr lugsy · Post by **mr lugsy** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 11:27 am

this information is probably here somewhere but there's alot of w u to trawl through to find it. if it chucks the pound straight at you for mid 200 pts or 400ish ,what are you probably looking at for a 5er or heavens forbid the 10er?

roberto la vigna · Post by **roberto la vigna** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 7:30 pm

If I got that early sequence of low-hanging fruit I would be expecting a £4 or £5 gimme at 1100, with the 'next prize' at 2500 or so, rather than a low 'pot.

mr lugsy · Post by **mr lugsy** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 7:51 pm

thanks, the missus gleefully slapped collect with the quid mid 200's the other day much to my dismay

roberto la vigna · Post by **roberto la vigna** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 9:41 pm

Now that you mention it, I reckon you would have been on for the tenner at 600 points.

mr lugsy · Post by **mr lugsy** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 10:08 pm

fotherz · Post by **fotherz** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 9:54 am

A rare game last night yielded QUARTERMASTERS.

Disappointed to find that Isty has already had it !

ggdr · Post by **ggdr** » Fri Oct 09, 2009 11:10 am

1823 no-clear last night. And it was all my own fault, specifically for thinking that OOK was valid. I'll be honest: I've still not quite got over it.