Displayed Word Strength
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@dan-mitchell, BINGO! As you said: the highest scoring move is not always the best move! How true that is. I learned years ago that this was a game of strategy, not a battle of vocabularies. Hence, sometimes, i forgo the 100% word for strategic reasons. (For those who seem to have a question on this there are 100% word(s) every play based on your rack and the status of the game board at that time.)
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@dan-mitchell The trick is to find it, and then to determine if it's worth it
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Thanks to everyone for their interesting and helpful comments. In addition to these, what has cleared the question up for me has been (1) the announcement at the end of the game, and (2) the realization that Lexulous always has the highest-scoring possible word available, since it appears at the top of the list in the game analyses. Up until now I've generally been getting one 100% word per game while my opponent hasn't gotten any, but I'll try to improve that now that I finally know that the 100% words are always there. It remains curious, however, that though I've scored 100% words, I've never seen the vertical bar completely filled.
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@57chevvie said in Displayed Word Strength:
@roymccoy It seems the good folks at Lexulous have inadvertently created a new game. The heck with your opponent. Just find words with 100% strength.
I strongly remembered this comment as I was playing tonight. You nailed it: a new game and you're just looking for the big one. I had DEEIOSST, which looked like a likely bingo and there were various spots with room where I could start with just about any of those letters. Yet I couldn't bingo. Ordinarily I would have just played five or six letters and moved on, but this time I knew a bingo was available because the percentages indicated the possibility of a 75-point word. So I hassled with the rack for longer than I care to confess, finding two places where a 75-pointer was possible and trying everything I could imagine at these spots. But finally I had to give up and play the shorter word for far fewer points. When I checked the rack at https://www.wordplays.com/anagram-solver/deeiosst, it turned out there was no 8-letter bingo and the only 7-letter one was ISOETES, "sole extant genus of the order Isoetales". As I wrote to my friend and longtime opponent, I'll be beating myself up over this one for weeks, lol.
I note the upvotes for @Dan-Mitchell's suggestion that "Word Strength" be changed to "Score Strength" and that other players share his view. Nobody is defending "Word Strength", so I propose the change be made immediately, thanks.
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