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| [35368] by "Mike" (pool-68-161-96-254.ny325.east.verizon.net) on Sun 18 Apr 2004 14:11:10 [ reply ] |
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>> I do care about people having fun, though. Any suggestions? <<
Password-Protected Expert Boards and Initiation Rites to play down there... hehe. kidding, kidding ;-) How about a small prize -- "I played a Scribble™ game over 1750 points and all Tom gave me was this stupid T-Shirt". With text showing the URL of snoot on the shirt, of course... heh :-) BTW, I was definitely not the first person to use an anagrammer. I started to use one when it became clear that other people just couldn't possibly know all of the words they were playing. Yes, the act of anagramming involves no skill whatsoever -- but there is a skill involved somewhere, otherwise everyone would be scoring 1700+ on a regular basis. As far as 15-letter games, we could create a separate Top 50 (or Top 20, since there'd probably be fewer of them). The problem arises when every game in that top 20 will have OXYPHENBUTAZONE as the word. heh. I dunno, to me, the conventional game is much more challenging -- given almost *any* tile order, one can pull off an OXYPHENBUTAZONE (or whatever) game. The same is not true for a conventional 1700+ game. There are always enough adherents to the "expert" style of play at any time, for me to say, "see, other people want to play like I do". That's good enough for me. :) -= Mike =- |