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Big Ben
Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2023 12:53 pm
by Fiona T
https://vole.wtf/big-ben/
A new game to waste hours on, and a nice BONG sound
Re: Big Ben
Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2023 3:41 pm
by Thomas Carey
This is fun! Got to 306 after a few goes: MOTIVES, EXEDRA and GLUMLY being highlights and then managed to clear the board. Learned to value vowels since I always ran out and then couldn't clear with my pile of consonants. Not sure what dictionary they are using, but seems to accept a lot of wanky countdown words (as well as rude ones - had CUMMED one game)
Re: Big Ben
Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2023 5:22 pm
by Fiona T
think it's scrabbly - took cid but not dic (that CSW/ODO difference lost me a tournament scrabble game on my final move!) and didn't allow one of the recently expurgated words!
Re: Big Ben
Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2023 5:39 pm
by Fiona T
Fiona T wrote: ↑Tue Jul 25, 2023 5:22 pm
think it's scrabbly - took cid but not dic (that CSW/ODO difference lost me a tournament scrabble game on my final move!) and didn't allow one of the recently expurgated words!
Nope not scrabble - it likes NI !
Re: Big Ben
Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2023 7:55 pm
by Adam Gillard
Challenging game - starting to use a method of spreading my words horizontally as much as possible.
#BigBenGame for
20:46:59
318 points
Longest word: MUTANTS
https://vole.wtf/big-ben/
Re: Big Ben
Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2023 8:46 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Had one go. Reasonably fun, but I'm not playing it again!
Re: Big Ben
Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2023 12:41 pm
by Elliott Mellor
Thomas Carey wrote: ↑Tue Jul 25, 2023 3:41 pm
This is fun! Got to 306 after a few goes: MOTIVES, EXEDRA and GLUMLY being highlights and then managed to clear the board. Learned to value vowels since I always ran out and then couldn't clear with my pile of consonants. Not sure what dictionary they are using, but seems to accept a lot of wanky countdown words (as well as rude ones - had CUMMED one game)
Also got to 306 myself - had CONDONERS as a particular highlight.
Re: Big Ben
Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2023 6:56 pm
by Graeme Cole
Incredible that they put so much effort into reproducing Big Ben's iconic clock face, then they put a 7 in the 6 position.
Re: Big Ben
Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2023 8:48 pm
by Adam Gillard
#BigBenGame for
21:40:49
379 points
Longest word: INTERLOPES
https://vole.wtf/big-ben/
Re: Big Ben
Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2023 2:47 pm
by JackHurst
Well I can't offer a different daily challenge every second in the Android app, but inspired by this, there will be 24 different daily challenges tomorrow! One different challenge for each hour, open for only that hour. Hoping I can do at least 10 of them!
Re: Big Ben
Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2023 4:18 pm
by Fiona T
https://twitter.com/mattround/status/16 ... 2920623104
We can all try beat Adam!
Graeme Cole wrote: ↑Thu Jul 27, 2023 6:56 pm
Incredible that they put so much effort into reproducing Big Ben's iconic clock face, then they put a 7 in the 6 position.
Looks like it's been fixed - guess we know where he got the bug report from
Re: Big Ben
Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2023 4:43 pm
by Thomas Carey
'former countdown contestant' yeah and Chris eubanks 'enjoys tennis'
Re: Big Ben
Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2023 9:22 pm
by Adam Gillard
That's fun that my game has been made replayable. I beat my own score by a few points just now by tweaking the shorter words I did at the end.
Re: Big Ben
Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2023 9:34 pm
by Fiona T
Haven't got close to Adam's score, but chuffed with an 11 letter word!
#BigBenGame for
22:27:11
324 points
Longest word: SQUELCHINGS
https://vole.wtf/big-ben/
Re: Big Ben
Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2023 10:12 pm
by Adam Gillard
Nice one! I've had a couple of 12s but not finished the board on either occasion. The latest one (SERENENESSES) I had 340 without finishing the board; I think the previous one was REPRESENTING.
Re: Big Ben
Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2023 6:01 pm
by Adam Gillard
Another brag:
#BigBenGame for
18:46:49
394 points
Longest word: UNDERSIZE
https://vole.wtf/big-ben/
Re: Big Ben
Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2023 8:14 pm
by Andres Sanchez
#BigBenGame for
21:10:19
272 points
Longest word: ENLISTING
https://vole.wtf/big-ben/
Re: Big Ben
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2023 2:22 am
by Mark Deeks
Took a few goes but cracked 300. It seems it reeally makes a difference when you play, because you need them vowels.
#BigBenGame for
03:16:15
320 points
Longest word: PRIZEMEN
https://vole.wtf/big-ben/
Re: Big Ben
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2023 2:45 am
by Mark Deeks
#BigBenGame for
03:40:17
312 points
Longest word: UNOPPOSING
https://vole.wtf/big-ben/
That'll do for now. Fun game!
Re: Big Ben
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2023 6:14 am
by Mark Deeks
I lied. One more.
#BigBenGame for
07:11:38
322 points
Longest word: VELVETEENS
https://vole.wtf/big-ben/
Re: Big Ben
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2023 8:23 am
by Jon O'Neill
Can someone work out when the vowelliest time of the day to play is?
Re: Big Ben
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2023 9:15 am
by Fiona T
Jon O'Neill wrote: ↑Tue Aug 01, 2023 8:23 am
Can someone work out when the vowelliest time of the day to play is?
No point in playing PM then. Nineteen seems like a good number, or eighteen if you fancy your chances of a nice -ing spot
Re: Big Ben
Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2023 11:23 pm
by Mark Deeks
Anything including "midnight" it turns out is quite a good time.
#BigBenGame for
00:16:31
361 points
Longest word: TELLINGS
https://vole.wtf/big-ben/
Re: Big Ben
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2023 10:43 pm
by Adam Gillard
Cracked the 400:
#BigBenGame for
23:19:46
422 points
Longest word: CHEAPENERS
https://vole.wtf/big-ben/
Re: Big Ben
Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2023 8:13 am
by Fiona T
Fantastic - well done!
Re: Big Ben
Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2023 2:22 am
by Mark Deeks
The rare ass/diq/ars/crunt scramble.