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Word Wipe Strategy

BradK250887 — Mon, 27 May 2019 03:06:17 GMT

I see every day that the leading scorers are in the 40,000 range. I am far from illiterate, but I rarely score above 11,000. Is there a strategy, a technique to get more time or more words? The enormous but consistent discrepancy is a great curiosity. Any advice?

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MaryanneP98749 — Mon, 27 May 2019 21:19:41 GMT

I can't get above 32,000 or the 15th level, but for what it's worth- You probably know if you clear the board, your score doubles. Bigger words are worth more points. You get a bomb after you clear lines in a certain amount of time (I think). If you have three of the same letters in a row, you can clear them if you want to. You get a minimum amount of points, but it comes in handy at times. I feel like there has to be a lot more little things like this that we don't know.

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bluemailman53 — Tue, 28 May 2019 01:05:33 GMT

I haven't gotten to 15,000 yet. Didn't know about 3 of the same letter thing. Will try that out.

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WalterP808836 — Wed, 29 May 2019 02:10:47 GMT

Lousy > Slow to load. Often, will not open after loading. Frequently. quits in mid-game. Poor !!!!

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MaryanneP98749 — Wed, 29 May 2019 02:39:34 GMT

I find it slow to load, but it never quit mid-game on me. That's just horrible.

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bluemailman53 — Wed, 29 May 2019 11:12:41 GMT

I only figured out the bomb after I had been playing for about a month.

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bluemailman53 — Wed, 29 May 2019 11:14:01 GMT

It is slow to load but don't think I have ever had it cut off in the middle of a game.

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linDue — Thu, 30 May 2019 15:55:00 GMT

I had it cut off in the middle of a game—it just froze, no way to reactivate it that I could see. It was annoying, because for once I was doing well :-). The thing that truly irritates me about the "new games" (or new format) is the screen jumping constantly. If I click on Word Wipes on the "all" games menu, I get Mathdoku, three or four games above Word Wipes. Sometimes it takes two or three tries to get the right game. Also, the Mahjongg games begin to load, then stop, then start again, then go to a white screen, then have to be reloaded all over again. I do not have problems like this (the jumping screen for example) on any other website, so I have to assume it's something that happened with the changeover on the AARP site.

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dw61438379 — Thu, 04 Jul 2019 00:59:53 GMT

Did you ever get a reply to your word wipe question?

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carolinajoy — Thu, 04 Jul 2019 11:41:39 GMT

In anwer to the complaint about having trouble clicking on the right game.....I just book marked my two favorite games so I can go directly to them, if that suggestion helps.

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BruceT162999 — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 07:16:03 GMT

The best strategy is to use a lot of long words. I don't know if uncommon words get you more points, but they ought to. That way, when you get to the end of the board and use up all the letters (or use the bomb to get rid of them) you double an even higher score. The most points I've had so far BEFORE the double is about 1900. I find that getting about 25,000 is pretty easy for me, but going much over 30,000 is more difficult. My biggest problem is using the mouse. I have a problem with tremors in my hands, and every once in a while I get a big one and the mouse jumps all over the screen. I can still type all right, though, so it would be nice if I could type in the words instead of mousing them.

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SusanM351147 — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 14:37:52 GMT

It looks like you've already had 10 replies - why can't I see them? I read on another site that you should use bonus bombs to clear the board and double your score in early rounds. Apparently the bombs are easier to earn in early rounds - but hold a couple back for later. I find that at round 13 and beyond the time seems to run out more quickly, have been trying to find out about that... I've never gotten past 15. I save my bombs for the late rounds, because I'm really just competing against myself to see how far I can get. When I have odd letters at the end of a round I try to connect them every which way, have come up with some pretty strange combinations that end up being words!

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bluemailman53 — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 15:53:31 GMT

Round 15 is the highest I've gotten also. My high game is 29,0400. Ive been trying for a few months now to beet that score. I would like to hit upon 30,000. As far as long words I have found that I can make 3 or 4 short words in the time I might find a long word. So I sort of think I'm better off with that strategy but I could be wrong. I'd really like to hear from people that are scoring 50,000 or 60,000 points and find out how they do it.

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SusanM351147 — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 04:24:58 GMT

I finally bothered to look at the timer. Sheesh. You get 2 minutes through 12 rounds, then 90 seconds for round 13, 80 for 14... I need to calm myself with a crossword puzzle. The NYT has a timer but I ignore it.

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LindaP439124 — Sat, 02 Nov 2019 20:50:57 GMT

I am with you on all your pints.I also think but of course not sure, that the game seems to throw a un-penatratable game to you whenthey want to close you out. This website NEEDS to give complete instructilons or rules to know before you just have to wing it! The last two weeks I can not get mush over 16,000 although my highest score due to pratice has been21,000. Weird in my opinion as I am mus=ch faster than beore. Can't figure that one! Hang in there!!!!!

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LindaP439124 — Sat, 02 Nov 2019 20:52:13 GMT

Practice is the only way to work up the higher score. But they need to give complete rules and instruction, lame.....

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SusanD296944 — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 00:38:19 GMT

how does the bomb work? I cant find any instructions

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bluemailman53 — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 02:06:44 GMT

If you drag a bomb to a letter tile and release it, that tile and any tile touching that tile will be eliminated. Great if you get to the end of a round and wind up with letters that can't make a word. You can blow them up and get a double score.

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DonnaR904722 — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 15:10:14 GMT

I learned that you can clear 3 "like letters" to get them out of the way - near the end it helps clear the board.

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wp79107020 — Sat, 28 Dec 2019 17:20:45 GMT

A number of folks seem to think the game has been hacked, but I think the explanation for the seemingly impossible scores is much simpler: there's a pause button to the lower left. When you pause the game a Pause screen covers perhaps a third of the board - just like when the Start screen comes up - but this still leaves a large area of the board visible. This is a great advantage in a number of ways, if you want to cheat, since it takes away the time pressure and allows you to explore the visible board at your leisure. Yes, only part of the board is visible but it is still a huge advantage. You have all the time in the world to find the longest words, or find ways to use the really tough letters, map strategies about how you want letters to fall, etc. And this advantage, at least to some degree, makes irrelevant the decreasing game times at higher levels.

I think a pause button is essential, but the Pause screen really needs to cover the entire board to disable the cheaters.