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I felt that the letter generation was off. After a couple play throughs of thinking cap I'd get through about 15 words before I was forced to shuffle because I have something along the lines of 5 As, 4 Os, 3 Is, etc and maybe 2 consonants. It maybe that I was tending to use more consonants particularly higher scoring ones and trying to get the 1 vowel bonus, but after getting this result consistently I think you need to alter letter generation so maybe 3/4s as likely if already 2 on the board, 1/2 if 3, 1/4 if 4, 0 if 5 or more, to make a more enjoyable experience.
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I think your coding is off by a LOT. It thinks lots of things that are not even words are. Such as uu or uo. If you just press a letter then try the others you are bound to find a few that match up that are not even real words.
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Delete clearing the entire word rather than just one letter is a pain in the neck when you're used to playing other word games.
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If you have a bonus for words 'containing' a certain letter, you DON'T get the bonus if it starts with that letter. Worth noticing!
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Simply an amazing game! It was interesting to discover how little my vocabulary was :P. Grats on your new wife, by the way! I thought getting married would drawn a developer away from games, but it seems it caused a new, wonderful game for nerdook!
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Success! - which probably has a different score value.. but as for "kangaroo" with no other special power-up values added is worth 784!
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I'm already addicted to this game. Honestly, fantastic job. Some of the new games that come out are always lame/glitchy/buggy/have horrible graphics, etc. I like how simple this is. Lucky lady you have. I wish I could find a boyfriend that made ME video games! ^_^
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Developer response from nerdook
"the base score of the word gets multiplied by a square of the word length"
Looks like square of (word length - 1).
Developer response from nerdook
"it's a scrabble dictionary... formal names are not likely to be in"
Unfortunately scrabble dictionaries are limited to 15 letter words, but ventriloquizing with 5x multiplier was a nice shot:)
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Can we get some idea of how it scores words? It looks like longer words are almost always better than words with higher-scoring letters, but it's unclear exactly why. Does the base score of the letters get multiplied by the word length?
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When typing in via the keyboard, it frequently loses letters. I find that I have to type very deliberately (read "slowly"), and, even then, it frequently misses what I type. Also, chiming in with other folks in reporting that bonus awards are frequently not given.
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And a fresh breeze filled the room. Was getting a bit tired of all the crazy demons, samurais and whatnot. As for this game I'm not that good at spelling, but I think it's spelled two... jk, four stars.
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Sometimes the bonus for using exactly one (or exactly two) vowel(s) fails to be awarded, despite the word meeting the criterion.
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in response to nerdooks comment on 8008man2's comment, this game is set up very much like the game boggle even the 3 min timer and in boggle the letters have to be adjacent to the letter chosen before it.
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When the bonus is for using the letter "L", could you make it a capital L instead of a lowercase l? For ease of reading purposes.