Crovax
01-08-2009, 01:52 AM
- Improve your typing speed! If you find more words than you can type, all the boggle skill in the world won't help your score.
- Focus on one part of the board at a time, it's hard to remember which words in a letter group you forgot if you jump all over the place
- If the word is long, common, and difficult to type (example: BOUNCE), just put it in the back of your mind. Long common words don't give you many points compared to short rare ones, it's not worth getting finger-tied over a five point word and then not having time to type in two or three six point ones later.
- Save the power tiles for later. Words with letters like X, Q, and Z are relatively hard to type, you can score more points rattling off more ordinarily-lettered words.
- If the board has tons of words (say, over 250 for 4x4), start typing all the words in EATS before scanning the board. Chances are they'll be there and you save a few seconds.
- If you are completely and totally out of words but have time left, just type in anything pronounceable. Maybe you'll discover something.
- If you make a typo and it turns out to be a word, remember it! It'll likely appear in puzzles with the word you meant to spell often.
And most importantly:
- Try to learn one new word every puzzle, and try to find that word in the next puzzles you play.
Anyone else have any contributions? :D
- Focus on one part of the board at a time, it's hard to remember which words in a letter group you forgot if you jump all over the place
- If the word is long, common, and difficult to type (example: BOUNCE), just put it in the back of your mind. Long common words don't give you many points compared to short rare ones, it's not worth getting finger-tied over a five point word and then not having time to type in two or three six point ones later.
- Save the power tiles for later. Words with letters like X, Q, and Z are relatively hard to type, you can score more points rattling off more ordinarily-lettered words.
- If the board has tons of words (say, over 250 for 4x4), start typing all the words in EATS before scanning the board. Chances are they'll be there and you save a few seconds.
- If you are completely and totally out of words but have time left, just type in anything pronounceable. Maybe you'll discover something.
- If you make a typo and it turns out to be a word, remember it! It'll likely appear in puzzles with the word you meant to spell often.
And most importantly:
- Try to learn one new word every puzzle, and try to find that word in the next puzzles you play.
Anyone else have any contributions? :D