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

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 12:31 pm

Without giving the game away, the venue in question was a LONG way from Catford...

fotherz · Post by **fotherz** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 7:02 pm

That rules out CARLOS then.

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 1:17 pm

It looks like no one is claiming the spoils. The pub in question was actually in a town in the North West where, without being too unfair to my fellow Northerners

, I wouldn't really expect a world record Word Up score to have been posted...

roberto la vigna · Post by **roberto la vigna** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 2:24 am

F. me that's large. Our best still tops it at 2497, tho'.

There is an anonymous contender up North who leaves default names - possibly the same culprit.

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 11:49 am

Ah OK, I did wonder if 2444 would actually be the very highest.

I assume that getting higher totals, as well as simply clearing at all, has been made easier by the increased dictionary used in WordSoup? Presumably there were times in the past when you were on for a very big score but were unable to get the extra 500 points for clearing, whereas now even I can clear regularly given the ridiculous non-words you are allowed to play when needed.

Now that we have established that 2444 is not quite the highest ever score, I'm happy to reveal that the venue was a pub called 'The Old Black Bull' on Friargate in Preston. It usually keeps a fine collection of real ales to accompany the Gamesnet if anyone is ever up that way!

roberto la vigna · Post by **roberto la vigna** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 2:07 pm

Nil Satis wrote:Ah OK, I did wonder if 2444 would actually be the very highest.

I assume that getting higher totals, as well as simply clearing at all, has been made easier by the increased dictionary used in WordSoup? Presumably there were times in the past when you were on for a very big score but were unable to get the extra 500 points for clearing, whereas now even I can clear regularly given the ridiculous non-words you are allowed to play when needed.

Now that we have established that 2444 is not quite the highest ever score, I'm happy to reveal that the venue was a pub called 'The Old Black Bull' on Friargate in Preston. It usually keeps a fine collection of real ales to accompany the Gamesnet if anyone is ever up that way!

I think the Word Soup word list is slightly smaller than the WU Grandmasters one, but the game does allow 15+ letter words where WUGM didn't.

Why would it have been necessary to conceal the identity of the pub if that had been the topmost score? Am confused.

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 3:24 pm

roberto la vigna wrote:Why would it have been necessary to conceal the identity of the pub if that had been the topmost score? Am confused.

I was only being vaguely mysterious as I thought that if someone was going to come on here and claim the anonymous top score then they would need to prove it by stating the location. As no one has come forward, it's either someone who is one of the regulars from here but who hasn't had a look at the forum this week, or someone who doesn't read these pages - the mystery Northern culprit you mention perhaps.

P.S. In case you are wondering how I saw the top score in the first place, it stemmed from being a little put off by being asked to get 2425 for £1! As this was the highest initial target I had ever seen by a margin of around 500 points, I thought I'd see who had caused such carnage.

Ernest W. Quality · Post by **Ernest W. Quality** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:15 pm

I would suspect this is the guy who we've seen in various towns in the North with usually just one or two good scores in each pub, and leaving either WORDUP or WORDSOUP as the user name. 2444 would be around 300 pts better than his previous best (AFAWK).

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 11:28 pm

Ernest, welcome back good sir. i thought you might have fallen foul of a terrible accident. i'm impressed with this mysterious stranger, have any Bobs made a recce?

roberto la vigna · Post by **roberto la vigna** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 12:00 am

Istenem wrote:I'm impressed with this mysterious stranger, have any Bobs made a recce?

We're quite happy to believe that the score is merely a figment of Nil Satis' fevered imagination, just as DMAC is thought to have dreamt the 10050 Word Blox score after an especially heavy night on the tiles in Glasgae.

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 12:16 pm

Why I oughta....

If the Gamesnet machine in question hasn't been reset I'll see if I can take a piccie of the said score next time I'm there.

As for DMAC, his exact words were:

dmac wrote:saw 10050 in Glasgow Walkabout yesterday

Given that it was (a) Glasgow and (b) a Walkabout he could have meant anything - pints, scars, fights, ...

Ernest W. Quality · Post by **Ernest W. Quality** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 4:40 pm

Got JOCKSTRAPS today.

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 1:21 pm

The picture quality isn't very good - I only have a crap camera on my phone and it's a busy pub with poor lighting - but hopefully this is the proof you need (and also proof of my own Word Up wizardry, with that massive score in 2nd place

).

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 1:25 pm

Oops - I wasn't allowed to post the photo as we have apparently reached our attachment limit.

Admin - it's a 0.9MB BMP piccie of the 2444 Word Up score - any chance I can post this??

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 3:55 pm

for some reason all pic uploading is disabled. if you have an e.g. facebook account you can link it anonymously via tinyurl.com. in the mean time we should all pester Mike, the admin here to reallow images.