#1 · Nick Wedd
26 Sep 2002
What is the highest score yet achieved in a real game of Golem's Word Game?
Public forum discussion.
26 Sep 2002
What is the highest score yet achieved in a real game of Golem's Word Game?
26 Sep 2002
I scored 402 points in one of my games, before my opponent chose to resign, but I'm quite sure there are several people who have scored higher than that.
26 Sep 2002
My personal best is 460. As Ed says: Possible records could be ruined by opponnent resigning so this record is not as valuable as word records. In my opinion word records should be grouped into full-board records and end-game records. In the ending it is often easy to find high value words if opponent is careless. Too bad Akuti Dodi's TWINKLE is on the way out of the list. I still think this is best find so far (it would have been worth 216 under new rules). There are also some word records on the list that could have been higher. Quick has been mentioned earlier, but take a look at the position where Jan Reznik came up with 126-point CABIN. (http://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/game/game.jsp?gid=6395&nmove=23). I dont blame Jan for not finding JACOBIN which would have been worth 864!! points. That word alone would have killed all records. It is easy to overlook such words when you already have found 126. I have done this myself:)
27 Sep 2002
So what's wrong with TWINKLE? It's a perfectly acceptable English word. Without it, Lewis Carroll could never have composed this masterpiece: Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!
How I wonder what you're at!
Up above the world you fly,
Like a teatray in the sky.
Twinkle, twinkle --
27 Sep 2002
Nothing was wrong with TWINKLE. Tore mentioned it was "on the way out" because it "only" scored 108 points, and was found in a game that was played under the old GWG rules. As more and more games are played under the new rules, (which now rewards words that are seven or more letters) more and more people are finding higher scoring words, pushing TWINKLE and other similar scoring words, down the list.
29 Sep 2002
Tore Sandmark wrote
"take a look at the position where Jan Reznik came up with 126-point CABIN. (http://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/game/game.jsp?gid=6395&nmove=23)."
BIANCA would have scored 216 :-)
5 Apr 2012
bump