End of the Word Up tournament
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roberto la vigna
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Sour.angie wrote:How much did you win Bob, you THACE?
We won over $48trillion (inconveniently paid in pound coins), and the entire team has decamped to the Maldives to live in the lap of luxury.
You forget that you would have been even further off the pace if it hadn't been for our website giving you playing tips and making you aware of what's possible, Ange.
If you had repeated your previous best effort and profited from the extra words, you would have hit the top 10 with a 22sth.
We performed better than expected, exploited the new dictionary with a QUIZZICALITIES for our 2497, whereas a lot underperformed and a bunch of unknown talents took their places (PZD, CARLOS etc - Fotherz referred to these shadowy late entrants in an earlier post).
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roberto la vigna
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Just reading this thread, with mild interest. I still hate Word Up, and I cannot understand why anybody plays it for fun. Having said that, I am impressed with fantastic Word Up ability from fruitchat posters such as:
VB
EWQ
Fotherz
etc
etc
etc...
As I did not even bother playing a single game on the Tournament version, I was wondering does it play the same as the normal version (dictionary excluded) ?
If you play the normal version of Word Up, and you are as bad as myself (which is very s**t ), it gets progressively easier. E.g. 'Q' and 'U' start appearing near to one another, and more playable double 'Z's appear. This makes higher scores, and clearances much easier.
Was this true of the tournament version, or was the grid always the same?
VB
EWQ
Fotherz
etc
etc
etc...
As I did not even bother playing a single game on the Tournament version, I was wondering does it play the same as the normal version (dictionary excluded) ?
If you play the normal version of Word Up, and you are as bad as myself (which is very s**t ), it gets progressively easier. E.g. 'Q' and 'U' start appearing near to one another, and more playable double 'Z's appear. This makes higher scores, and clearances much easier.
Was this true of the tournament version, or was the grid always the same?
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roberto la vigna
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I think the tournament version played exactly the same, as far as I could tell, including how it adapted to play.
I found a new, impressively obsessive talent today: 'RICH' in Luton had taken all 10 places on every itbox in town (except one), including a screen of ten 39 word clearances! Bestest score: 1910ish. Nicestest word: ZEITGEISTS. Status: defeated on all fronts.
There is an itbox in Luton that is probably used to trial new games (2 pubs to the right of Yates, from town - dunno the name) - it had some oddities (which never appeared on full release) when Fotherz and I trawled round there a year ago (turning up, rather inconveniently, during the carnival - which was later rained off) and, similarly, had idiosyncratic strangeness on it today (a greyhound trivia game and a trivia thing based on Jenga, neither of which I tried).
I found a new, impressively obsessive talent today: 'RICH' in Luton had taken all 10 places on every itbox in town (except one), including a screen of ten 39 word clearances! Bestest score: 1910ish. Nicestest word: ZEITGEISTS. Status: defeated on all fronts.
There is an itbox in Luton that is probably used to trial new games (2 pubs to the right of Yates, from town - dunno the name) - it had some oddities (which never appeared on full release) when Fotherz and I trawled round there a year ago (turning up, rather inconveniently, during the carnival - which was later rained off) and, similarly, had idiosyncratic strangeness on it today (a greyhound trivia game and a trivia thing based on Jenga, neither of which I tried).
