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Muddle
[68569] by "Cam" (74-33-217-14.dr02.glvv.ny.frontiernet.net)   on Tue 17 Nov 2009 17:11:59     reply ] 
Tom,

Why do you say that Muddle is a "cooperative word puzzle"? Its not.

In the results, or main page, we can see that so-and-so "beat" him or her.

And in the rules, when talking about word entry tactics you say "good to get them in before other players grab them". You go on to say "you may want to look for similar words ... before revealing your great words". Clearly not cooperative.

This is a player-against-player game.

You should change your description.
Muddle: identical games
[68477] by "Max" (adsl-76-195-78-200.dsl.wlfrct.sbcglobal.net)   on Tue 03 Nov 2009 23:16:58     reply ] 
A strange thing just happened--the same game showed up for me three times in a row (games 518858-518860). I've been playing for a long time and never seen this before. The third time I just copied and pasted a bunch of words from the other games for fun which is totally cheating so you can strike that one from the records if you want!

518860
"stater"
78/91 (85%) Max (sbcglobal.net) beat 4 others with 78 pts.
518858
"stater"
27/91 (29%) Max (sbcglobal.net) beat 3 others with 23 pts.
518859
"stater"
24/91 (26%) Max (sbcglobal.net) beat 3 others with 23 pts.
Prevent search engine spiders from "playing" games
[68438] by "Cam" (74-33-217-14.dr02.glvv.ny.frontiernet.net)   on Wed 28 Oct 2009 17:58:33     reply ] 
Tom,

There's a lot of comments about "players" that don't play and lock games. As some have pointed out, many of these are search engine spiders trying to index your site.

To prevent spiders from indexing a page or following links from that page, put the following line in the header section of pages not to be indexed:

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW">

You might want to let them index a game's main page, but not follow links (and consequently lock games) with the following:

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="INDEX,NOFOLLOW">
This is supposed to be a free game
[68432] by "Anonymous" (76.24.52.42)   on Wed 28 Oct 2009 01:33:14     reply ] 
Why do other people dictate to us how to play. Never played a game where I WAS TOLD how to play
The Serin Crime Family
[68413] by "Anonymous" (pool-71-247-235-218.nycmny.east.verizon.net)   on Wed 21 Oct 2009 08:25:55     reply ] 
Casey Serin should be imprisoned.
Wuss Scales
[68358] by "PsyMar" (user-0c99uii.cable.mindspring.com)   on Sat 10 Oct 2009 08:37:00     reply ] 
We need a wuss scale of various celebrities and fictional characters for "Who would win in a chess match"?
Muddle 19.9
[68299] by "Max" (adsl-76-195-75-136.dsl.wlfrct.sbcglobal.net)   on Fri 25 Sep 2009 19:29:36     reply ] 
20.0 here we come!
No Vowels
[68216] by "Razzer" (mta-72-135-110-178.new.res.rr.com)   on Wed 09 Sep 2009 16:36:52     reply ] 
On Scrabble board 5 new but no vowels to build words! LOL
How
[68112] by "Anonymous" (c-75-67-46-10.hsd1.nh.comcast.net)   on Thu 20 Aug 2009 20:15:09     reply ] 
How can someone with the same name play one after another in the same game After I play, I am blocked.
Thanks Tom!!!!
[67977] by "" (173-24-92-117.client.mchsi.com)   on Sun 02 Aug 2009 19:22:24     reply ] 
Thank you for getting the games up and running !!
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