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thankyou nerdook for a wonderful game , thankyou mrs carrots nerdook for making nerdook make this game , Greg - you better badge this one as well
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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'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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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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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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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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Well balanced, fun and relaxing. The thinking cap mode lets you play without the annoyance of a ticking clock. Nice little features like the penalty-free letter shuffle, plenty of vowels, and real-time predictive scoring. Great! 5/5
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WOOT haha !! I just wantet to say "CONFIDENTLY" that this word got me 10.400 points ;) Guess that luck was on my side on this one ;D Sorry for second comment but I was just so excited that I needed to vent it off haha ! :D Thx again for a cool game Nerdook ^^
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A good game, I guess. What I really like about word games is the -restrictions-; that is, you're given a set amount of letters to scramble and unscramble, or in this case a grid, but you can only hop from adjacent letters. The fact that this game is so free-range, where I can make any word I want, makes it a little boring. 3/5
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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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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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My best is "RECALIBRATES" at 12705. Could have been better with "RECALIBRATORS" at 16560 (if I guess the scoring formula right - "Total letters score" * (n-1), where n is the number of letters) but the game doesn't accept such a word, kinda strange :))