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Official Thread of WordJong & Spelling geniuses within

Either this thread will die quickly because no one owns it or it will be a fun daily crossword puzzle kind of thing but either way the game could use some pimping because its a fun time waster. It's basically a word puzzle game using Majong tiles where you spell words to complete a daily puzzle. Like the NY times crossword puzzle it gets progressively more difficult every day as you move from Monday to Sunday.

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http://www.wordjong.com/

Try a version of it here

The neat thing is that everyday a new puzzle is unlocked sort of like a Nintendo Brain Training game or something (at least on the iphone version) but supposedly it's the same puzzle for everybody. Not sure if that is cross platform but this will serve as a good test I suppose. WordJong in some form or another is available on the Wii, DS, PC, Mobile Phone, and Iphone platform. A few of us are playing it on the iphone plaftorm from the Iphone thread but if anybody has it on the other platforms they are welcome to play the daily challenge in their version and post their daily scores.

How this will work is that starting tomorrow on Jan 28 we'll post our scores and the words we used and how many bombs we used. It will look like this to use an example from today.

Jan 27
Score:175
Bombs:2

Word List
Desultory (33)
Migraines (35)
Meteorite (35)
Peddling (24)
Loadings (24)
Whet (7)
Curse (5)
Seek (6)
Jet (6)

Make sure you spoiler your words so as not to spoil things for somebody else and place your word score for each word in parentheses. The cool things is that there is varability so almost certainly we won't be using the same words as each other. So let's get spelling!

;)
 
Quoting from the App Store thread:

Tobor said:
I just finished Jan 27th, and I barely beat you. 179. :D

DRAWLING
MODULES
SORDID
LIMERICKS
POTENTATE
TEETERING
CHEESE
JUGS

I believe I used two bombs as well.

Let's do this!
 
I'm in. Although I really wish the game had online high scores and (optimally) a friends list to make this easier...
 
The funny thing is how your brain works. Lots of time I get frustrated because my poor brain keeps fixating on the same couple of words. Or occasionally you realize you know a word but have forgotten the meaning of that word. Like Desultory. Haven't a clue what it means anymore without looking it up but once I must have and I remembered the word.
 
Stoney Mason said:
The funny thing is how your brain works. Lots of time I get frustrated because my poor brain keeps fixating on the same couple of words. Or occasionally you realize you know a word but have forgotten the meaning of that word. Like Desultory. Haven't a clue what it means anymore without looking it up but once I must have and I remembered the word.

I also tend to build words over several different moves. I held onto half of Limerick for some reason until I had enough letters to finish it.
 
Is there a way to see what words I used on previous days? I assume not, but...

27 January: 161
28 January: 117

May have another stab at today's but it was a tough selection.
 
Okay, I finally caved and got this last night. Best $5 I've ever spent, and the best iphone app around. I really suck at it so far, but I was able to complete today's puzzle on my first attempt (with a pathetically low score).
Jan 27: 116
Jan 28: 78 (told you it was pathetic, but I still got my flowers)

I assumed you could look at your word list after completing the puzzle or otherwise I would have made note of them. That kind of sucks, but otherwise this game is digital crack and perfect for work.
 
See Today was a difficult one for me. I had to backtrack and undo a lot because I kept ending up with a shitload of T's and had very few vowels at the end to make words with.



Jan 28
Score:94
Bombs:0

Word List

AWESOME (18)
SHADERS (17)
LOGGED (13)
LETTERS (17)
TIDE (4)
DAMP (6)
SETT (4)
CUP (5)

Bomb Bonus:10
 
truth-lasers said:
How does the daily puzzle work? Do you download it or is a new one just unlocked every day?

I believe it's unlocked but we're not sure. It would be cool if anyone has the DS version so we can see if the daily puzzles match.

I'm going to do today's puzzle at lunch. I was waiting for Stoney to post so I'd know what to shoot for. ;)

EDIT: I guess we're sure.
 
Tobor said:
I believe it's unlocked but we're not sure. It would be cool if anyone has the DS version so we can see if the daily puzzles match.

I'm going to do today's puzzle at lunch. I was waiting for Stoney to post so I'd know what to shoot for. ;)

Today was one of those where I was just struggling to reach the mandated high score. I would have finished below the score if I had the letters to finish it at the end but since I had to backtrack so much I was able to figure out a few better words to barely get a score above the minimum with the bomb bonus.
 
Stoney Mason said:
Today was one of those where I was just struggling to reach the mandated high score. I would have finished below the score if I had the letters to finish it at the end but since I had to backtrack so much I was able to figure out a few better words to barely get a score above the minimum with the bomb bonus.

Yeah, I ended up losing out on the bomb bonus because I had to use it to destroy the last letter on the board. I'm going to go back and retry from scratch here in a few minutes.
 
I bought this for iPhone last night after all the good things that were said about it in the Official iPhone thread.. played a couple of previous puzzles last night and I'll be playing today's over my lunch break.

Awesome game!
 
Jan 28
Score: 114
Bombs: 0

Word list:
WREATHED (24)
TALLEST (17)
SHIELDED (23)
GROTTOES (24)
GAPED (7)
CUM (5)
PES (4)
 
Okay, second attempt on today's puzzle and I saved my list this time:

1/28: 92 (82 + 10 bomb bonus)
Word List:
Reward
Letters
Ocelot
Pegged
Seduces
Mat
Hats
Id
Much happier now. :D
 
Jan 29: 153 (143 + 10 bomb bonus)

Weakened 26
Tailored 23
Streamers 35
Thistle 18
Gumption 25
Delated 16

Can't believe my Jan 28 score was comparatively good. Wish I'd saved my word list :/
 
Jan 28: A lousy stinking 83. I'm too disgusted to post the words. On the bright side, there's always another day.
 
After being referenced on 1up yours, I picked up this game and I totally hooked now!

I suck at it but its soo fun-

January 28th

Score- 93
 
Jonnyram said:
Jan 29: 153 (143 + 10 bomb bonus)

Weakened 26
Tailored 23
Streamers 35
Thistle 18
Gumption 25
Delated 16

Can't believe my Jan 28 score was comparatively good. Wish I'd saved my word list :/


dude you are making me feel really bad about myself
 
I also want to take this opportunity to say that Luke Smith and John Davison deserve royalties for how many people have picked this game up based on their discussion of it.
 
baphometbones said:
I also want to take this opportunity to say that Luke Smith and John Davison deserve royalties for how many people have picked this game up based on their discussion of it.

amen. they need to get on this thread!

(does John Davison have a Gaf acct.)
 
baphometbones said:
I also want to take this opportunity to say that Luke Smith and John Davison deserve royalties for how many people have picked this game up based on their discussion of it.

Some of us had the game before the podcast. ;)

But, yeah, where's Luke? He better post some scores up in here.
 
Jan 29

140 (130 + 10 bomb bonus)

26 WEAKENED
12 SHORED
35 TAILGATER
18 MERLOTS
23 DEMENTIA
11 PUDDLE
05 STALL



I also vote we adopt a standard of score posting something along these lines:

100 (90 + 10 bomb bonus)
90 (90 + 0 bomb bonus)

So then right away you can see the score and whether or not the bomb bonus was received.
 
Jan 29

105 (95 + 10 bomb bonus)

22 REDACTED
11 LEASER
12 MOTELS
5 HERD
6 MULES
26 WEAKLING
5 TALON
5 PELT
3 DIT (?) It accepted it although I can't seem to find it in the dictionary.
 
Jan 29 (iPhone)

125 total (115 + 10 Bomb Bonus)

Wordlist:

Deadliest
Silenter
Weather
Smoker
Detail
Mug
Noted
Spall
 
Jan 30

180 (no bomb bonus)

Relations
Elongated
Rewarded
Spelunker
Gimpiest
Judge
Tenets
Chic

This was a hard one to finish off. I had to mess with the last few turns 3 or 4 times and still needed a bomb for the last letter.
 
Jan 29

100 + 10

WADDLERS
TATTLERS
TALKED
TIE
HOGGED
MOPE
MINERS
EL
LA
CUED

Didn't have much to go on at the end there.
 
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