WORD WIPE SCORES

[thisnewday]

HIGHEST SINGLE WORD SCORE - 252, baiters

HIGHEST SINGLE LEVEL SCORE - 3292

HIGHEST SINGLE LEVEL SCORE W/O DOUBLING - 1592

HIGHEST LEVEL REACHED - 13

HIGHEST GAME SCORE - 17,716

MOST LINES CLEARED - 20

Comments

[rosegardenfae]

HIGHEST SINGLE WORD SCORE - 224 - "tracers"

HIGHEST SINGLE LEVEL SCORE - ?

HIGHEST LEVEL REACHED - ?

HIGHEST GAME SCORE - 14,798

MOST LINES CLEARED - 9

MOST BOMBS UNUSED - Dang, forgot the bombs

I see I need to record more stats... I'm on that!

[thisnewday]

Dang! 14K! GREAT GAME! Yeah, the stats are kind of a PITA, especially if you're on a roll, but they are kinda fun to track...

[rosegardenfae]

Yah.. they are fun.

Question??? Did you just play one game or more? I didn't record that, but played a few. If I hadn't gotten hungry I might still be doing it. lol

And, I used the bombs once when I got to feeling desperate.

Starting to get the hang of it I think, longer words are better. My hand isn't as steady as I'd like and I end up doing a lot of erasing. But, this is keeping us from becoming total zombies, right?

[thisnewday]

The above scores were from one game although I played several afterwards and didn't improve any of my stats.

I usually try to save my bombs in case I need them to save a game and move up a level. However, if your goal is to score the highest you can at a given level or, for that matter, overall, you can double your score at a given level if you clear the board--which will also increase your score for that game. And sometimes the way to do that is to use the bombs.

And, no, I'm pretty much still a zombie, lol...

[rosegardenfae]

I couldn't score diddly today. My excuse is I felt like crap, so I didn't write anything down.

However, last night I had a 15,526 pt game, level 12, and a 320 point word, " boosters" with 6 bombs left. But decided it really doesn't count since I had already posted.

The game even managed to pull me away from Pauline threatening to jump off a balcony when she learned about Martha lol

Today I'm just too upset by this ICE crap to focus.

Will give it a go tomorrow. Haven't got close to clearing the board.

G'night...sleep well.

[thisnewday]

Whoa, you should definitely count the ones last night. You plug in your numbers anytime you score one that's higher than you had before in that category. So yeah, definitely log 'em in.

I think I had one good game today and the rest were pretty much crap. But you can bet I plugged in the numbers that were good. I now regard it as a matter of survival, lol.

As for tRump, and the mess he's making of this country, I just have to take a break from it now and then.

Thanks and g'night...

[rosegardenfae]

Recent changes:

HIGHEST SINGLE WORD SCORE-352-"boatings"

HIGHEST GAME SCORE- 15,526

HIGHESTLEVEL REACHED-12

MOST BOMBS UNUSED-6

[thisnewday]

Great job, I'm getting killed. Gonna have to resort to lying or something, lol...

[rosegardenfae]

But, after all the above does not reflect the game in which I cleared 0 lines or the ones in which I reached level 2. It is just my bright shiny moments lol

[thisnewday]

Right, that's what we're doing! I don't think I'd have enough time left to document my "non-shiny" moments, lol...

[mallorys_camera]

What game?

[thisnewday]

I'll only tell you if you either (1) promise never to play it or (2) never tell me your score. I don't think my fragile ego can take that kind of beat-down two days in a row, lol.

Oh, OK, it's: https://www.mindgames.com/game/Word+Wipe

[mallorys_camera]

No worries! I'm a Words With Friends gal myself. 😊

[thisnewday]

Whew! Safe for the moment, lol...

[rosegardenfae]

Wow 20 lines! WTG

My new high score= 16,857 and cleared board once w/o using bombs.

Highest word score- 352- "boatings"

DW won't let me edit my original comment....:-(

Update: high score - 20,735 - 12 lines

[thisnewday]

Dang, E, you ARE kicking a$$ and taking names, lol. I think the reason you can't edit your original comment is that once someone replies to it, it's closed to further editing. Anyway, we both know WHOSE a$$ and WHOSE name, hahaha.

As for me, I've played a few but nothing much to show for it except a lapse back into my old habit of focusing on the words and not paying attention to the overall progress of the game. And that's the best excuse I can come up with, lol...

[rosegardenfae]

Oh, am I supposed to be paying attention to the overall progress of the game? And duh, how do I determine that?

I play a few every day, but I totally focus on the words and the score.

At least, I'm still having fun with it and I do so love kicking your a$$...*smirk*

Should finish "Love and Ruin" by tomorrow. Will send it to you if you want. Unlike you I am not one to reread books: I did as a teenager back in the Dark Ages lol

[thisnewday]

Wel-l-l, YOU apparently don't need to resort to such cheap tricks and convoluted strategies to rack up a decent score, lol. However, I've gotta do that and, even then, I STILL don't do so hot.

Anyway, thanks for the offer of "Love and Ruin," but you're not the first woman to offer me that, hahaha. But seriously, I've already ordered it in anticipation of finishing Harris's bio of Virginia Woolf. Which should happen any week now.

I did want to offer a slightly different take on the complexity of Woolf's work, vis-a-vis her tumultuous emotional life and its effect on her work. In my opinion, that complexity is due to the amazing breadth and depth of what she was attempting to capture in her prose. And I think she was largely successful at doing this in spite of--not because of--her mental health issues.

I just read that, as the Battle of Britain commenced over London, she and Leonard ventured into the city from their country home in Sussex to salvage the 25(!) volumes of her highly-detailed and meticulously-kept journals from their bombed-out town home. And I think that sort of detail is very purposefully reflected in her novels.

Of course, my wife would undoubtedly submit that the mere 10 boxes of miscellaneous notebooks and journals, which I accumulated over the course of our marriage, was an indisputable sign of serious mental illness, lol.

Anyway, thanks again for the offer of the book and I'll let you know how I like it, once I get to it.

Wishing a good evening to you and yours...

L

[rosegardenfae]

Um, I was serious ya know, I really don't understand the progression of the game unless it is to score more points. I am sorely lacking in strategic skills.

And, as for Woolf, what do you think she was striving for in her work? I see her as an observer of the minutiae of everyday life and in her observations discovering the changes that had come about after the "Great War." Then wanting to express the transformation in her work, the most important of these being that women were equally capable of producing great literature as were men. And this, she did so well, exploring subjects such as sex and illness and the effects of trauma. She saw that there was a new way of thinking and being emerging and that required a new writer. She wanted to be that writer.

I believe that she expressed her mental issues through her characters, i.e. Septimus Smith in "Mrs. Dalloway" whose eventual suicide foreshadows her own end. Her illness cannot be separated from her work, if only because as she says, "The only way I keep afloat is by writing." So her work was her anchor as well as a source for character development. I cannot help but wonder, had she not been thus afflicted, would she have been driven to write or would she have settled into a quiet domestic arrangement with the children she so desired, but could never have because of her illness?

I do find myself now thinking of Woolf and Gellhorn both wading into waters that forever changed their lives. As the chill water of the Ouse reached Virginia's knees did she feel relief? Was she at last free? And, Martha as she struggled in the waves of the English Channel to reach the Normandy Beach also realize that she was forever changed; and that instead of giving up had been granted renewed strength for her never ending need to be heard?

I admit to being impressed by your 10 boxes of written words. I have only one.

[thisnewday]

"As the chill water of the Ouse reached Virginia's knees..." Alas, we'll never know that but your words caught and carried me to the Prologue of Michael Cunningham's "The Hours." And it's just... stunning, ending with:

"Here they are, on a day early in the Second World War: the boy and
his mother on the bridge, the stick floating over the water's sur-
face, and Virginia's body at the river's bottom, as if she is dream-
ing of the surface, the stick, the boy and his mother, the sky and
the rooks. An olive-drab truck rolls across the bridge, loaded with
soldiers in uniform, who wave to the boy who has just thrown the
stick. He waves back. He demands that his mother pick him up so that
he can see the soldiers better; so he will be more visible to them.
All this enters the bridge, resounds through its wood and stone, and
enters Virginia's body. Her face, pressed sideways to the piling, ab-
sorbs it all: the truck and the soldiers, the mother and the child."

It just FEELS like he captured the sad, momentous event so perfectly, captured her, in fact, the way she would've felt it, even having exited this life.

About the boxes. Alas, 10 full of hot air are not the same as 1 filled with substance...

[rosegardenfae]

Agree, that he beautifully expresses the moment. Thanks for giving that to me. Now, I'm wanting to reread "The Hours." Guess I'll take it from the shelf and put it back in the stack.

I'd describe my singular box as mostly juvenalia spiced by some very hot sex....and a lot of whining. My children will be mortified if they ever read it.