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The Q/X thing feels really silly to me, to be honest. I simply can't imagine anyone other than a literally world-class Scrabble player (and maybe not even) completing that challenge without looking up a word list, and I feel like looking up word lists defeats the whole point. Also, it's really not well-balanced against the other challenges in terms of difficulty--even with the word list in hand, simply restarting for the required QUA-prefix took me more time than the other challenges combined. Also, this Hard badge is currently one of the 20 least earned badges on the site nearly 6 months after release, so it's not like I'm the only one who finds that challenge unreasonable...=/
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This seems like a game where you get the badges and never come back. :\ Alternatively, I wouldn't mind watching a video of a wicked fast typist, with a cam on their screen and another on their hands, blasting through like a comet, almost breaking the game's ability to keep up, and getting a score that maxes out the Kongregate score table. :D
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Fun game.. but.. I'm a writer, and I'm sucking at this game.. makes me really double think my writing abilities if I can't even think of words. -__-
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How about some quick back-up and erasure keys? It's pretty annoying to type a 15-letter word, see that I've already used it, and have to backspace over the whole thing.
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If you have a game based on vocabulary, you need to include a pretty large vocabulary in your lexicon. I lost time and points for "verisimilitude", "multiplicitous", and one other word I can't recall now.
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To make 15 words with w and k for rank 7: Shuffle until you get the ending -ked. Then input the following: Waked, Walked, Wanked, Warked, Wauked, Wicked, Winked, Worked, Howked, Gawked, Whacked, Whisked Wracked, Wreaked, Wrecked, Wricked. That's enough to pass. KEEP THIS ALIVE!!
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If you need help with the "10 words with 'x' and 'q'" objective, go to http://www.morewords.com and search for "*x*q*" and note down those words, then search for "*q*x*" and note done those words. Should make things a bit easier.
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The last rank is really tough. My suggestion is to have this open and available to look at at all times: http://words-with.com/q-and-x.html, Even with that though, you gotta be fast and lucky with (mostly) your suffixes. GOOD LUCK!!!
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If you are stuck with the tasks of level 7 and 8 with 2 specific letters (w and k, then q and x) use this page. http://words-with.com/k-and-w.html (replace with q and x accordingly). That Will show enough words for the k/w combo and 9 words if you begin with "qua" as prefix the last Word can be something like quixote or some of the words thar stem from that one
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I love it. But since I'm french, it's kinda difficult to quickly find english words. My head isn't fast enough for this game ! I wish I could play it in french ^_^
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this game is gar too difficult for a weekly badge.
don't forget 95% of the population don't speak english as first language
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Aiming for the hard badge, and at Rank 8 I need... 10 words with "Q" *AND*
"X"?! I can't even think of ONE word with both those letters! D:
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For those struggling with Rank 8, I'll give you a tip: "quadruplex" is both an adjective and a verb. That should get you most of the way there.
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Ah, typos. You type out a long word with both the wanted prefix and suffix, with 5 seconds remaining, and can't press Enter cause there's a missing letter somewhere
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There should be a pause button, but if you paused it, it would restart your combo and change the suffix/prefix when you unpause it, that way it cannot be abused.
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OMG... Is rank 8 for real? I can only think of a couple of words with q and x... And none of them start or end with the prefixes or suffixes in this game?
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wait until the ending is ING. then try going, walking, seeing etc.
a bit of a manual would be nice.
and i thought it was unfair to take a cool ending (like ING) away, when you build a word with the requested start end ending. so never try hitting start AND end if you're on a cool part you want to keep.
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I love this game because of the originality of it. I do wish it had a bit more time on the clock to begin with, but that's just me. 5/5
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google words starting or ending with X X X and it'll give you enough words to get the 400 badge. BEFORE the timer starts obviously.
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I really like this game, I love words, and i like the tower idea. My main suggestion is to have a bar next to accomplishments that shows how far you are. For example, I was SURE I'd had 15 words with k and w, but I didn't get the next ranking and was disappointed, especially since I had no idea how many more I needed. It would've been nice to see something like "14/15 words found"
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I remember playing this game with friends when it was published on Kongregate. I thought it was awesome! Making this a BOD, however makes me think it might not be a good choice for other kong users that will have trouble because English isn't their first language. Hardly, and "easy" badge for them.