It has been a crazy, surprising run!

[lalatan]

Had an interesting morning session last week. Found 24 best/longest words for records in 90 mins. It usually takes my brain an hour or so to get going in the morning but that day it was fired up and ready to go.

Some words I never played before and set records with since I last posted:
PERNICKETINESSES 31/17 (The UK alternative of persnickety)
MICROMANIPULATORS 32/16
ANTHROPOMETRISTS 30/16
PSYCHOTOMIMETICALLY 36/19
ANAMORPHOSCOPES 18/15 (knew anamorph was a prefix so tried it with -oscopes)
WITHDRAWNNESSES 28/15
SACCHARIMETERS 26/14 (I surmised it measured saccharines and it worked!)
EXHIBITIONISTICALLY 30/19
UNPUNCTUALITIES 28/15
DEXTROAMPHETAMINES 36/28 (proud of that one, finding the dextro- prefix)
MUDDLEHEADEDNESSES 34/18
TRICHLOROACETIC 28/15 (I made sure to also check for tetra- kate! )
STEREOFLUOROSCOPE 32/17 (Said to my wife 30 mins before I found this "I've never seen fluoroscopes on a board." Pretty eery when I saw it.)

I played a game where Spike had the best word record for 38 pts. I saw fluid and dynamics on the board but couldn't find his word so let the game time out. Turned out to be MAGNETOFLUIDDYNAMICS! Great find in patching that word together, Spike! Did you happen to hear it somewhere before?
I managed to piece together your 37 pt word: DIMETHYLHYDRAZINES. Good find as well.

[Spike1007]

That sounds like a great morning's work! Some of those I probably wouldn't have guessed.

Anyway, I've normally seen magnetohydrodynamics, but, like you, I found MAGNETO- and -DYNAMICS and filled in the middle. I was surprised that it worked. As for DIMETHYLHYDRAZINES, you work with what you can cobble together, and sometimes it works.

[bwt1213]

I know I posted something about breaking my previous high scores here somewhere, but I can't find it. But hey, this IS the boo-yeah corner so I can't be too much out of place. I just set a new all-time record high score on 5x5:

YOUR STATS:
Total points: 718 New record!New record!
Total words: 107 (46 common,28 wide,5 rare,28 ultra rare) New record!New record!
Best word: SQUIRTERS (20 pts.)
Longest word: SQUIRTERS (9 letters)
PUZZLE STATS:

Played: 2 times
Average Score: 599.3 points
Average Words: 103 words
High Score: 555 points by samanticshift
Most Words: 105 words by samanticshift
Best Word: SQUIRTERS (20 pts) by apressel
Longest Word: SQUIRTERS (9 letters) by apressel

[ThunderRock]

Very nice B, you eclipsed that high mark by a good margin. Way to go!!!

[lalatan]

Yesterday I reached a milestone of 20k best/longest word records. So the crazy, surprising run (it still seems crazy and surprising to me in some ways) continues for me... My vocabulary has burgeoned the last few months and I enjoy playing the game as much as ever (strangely enough). (I even like finding medical/scientific words now, a definite change from a few months ago!)

[bwt1213]

I had been having a bad day, with board after board giving disappointing results. And then I set a new personal record for high score, and tied my personal record for words (and could have done even better if my fingers weren't getting themselves tied up at the end):

Total points: 729 New record!New record!
Total words: 133 (64 common,20 wide,9 rare,40 ultra rare) New record!New record!
Best word: PANTERS (12 pts.) New record!New record!
Longest word: PRESSERS (8 letters) New record!New record!

[crazykate]

I just noticed a new player in the top spot. Is thinkbigger your newest incarnation, lalatan, or is someone trying to surpass you?

[Spike1007]

Going by how thinkbigger played this month, I'd guess that's not lalatan in one of his incarnations. (53 games, but only one word.)

[crazykate]

Whoops, I didn't even think to check the stats. Haven't seen anyone try that method in a while. A bit pointless if you ask me.

[lalatan]

I was amused that somebody signed up as thinkbigger when I saw his 42 pt word play in the Best Words list about 10 days ago. But now that he chose to blank 52 games to grab an illegitimate gold trophy I'm pretty pissed off with it. He has robbed Spike of the gold and moved everyone else down 1 position. He has denigrated all of our time and effort to actually find words for the avg pts/word competition so he can get a quick and easy victory (JMHO).

I suspect the player behind it is shock since he is pulling the same stunt in 4x4 (although there he played a whopping 5 words). shock has been playing since 2013 so he knows better. Time will tell if he continues to be a 1 word wonder. (kate, no problem that you never checked thinkbigger's stats. When shock took the silver last month I failed to check his stats. So I even congratulated him but withdrew that when I saw what he was doing this month. Good to hear from you.)

Seems to me that ThunderRock and others will also be robbed by a cheater, powershellplay, in 4x4 avg words/game and avg score/game so we're not alone.