For me it was 2006 -- OMG 18 years ago!

I was going to post that this was a bug but I guess the same thing happened to me!
It's also lame that they don't pop up a message that you have been censored by lex. I thought my
opponents were ignoring me!

And like you, I didn't swear at anybody, they swore at me.

Wow there is a lot of Lex hate over on reddit.

I noticed this post today:

"Wanted to play online scrabble with my young teen, but my advice is to keep your children away from this site. The game itself is good, but it is a haven for abusers. The lobby has a robot that is triggered when a player simply types one of a few select words after which the bot spews out disgusting and offensive ideas many related to abortion, Hitler and death. The atmosphere is harsh and full of bullies who work together in mob formation. The site is rife with security issues including a “player” who is somehow able to pinpoint other players IPs. One look at the sheer number of scammers in the people section of the forum (prostitutes and worse) will tell you all you need to know. The site owners and moderators have been repeatedly informed of these issues and many more via email and the forum, but I have seen zero effort from them to correct the sickness that infests this site. My advice is to protect your children from the angry mob that seems to run this ship and encourage the lobby bullies that want to chat/abuse privately while in game. Too bad because the game is good, but there are others that are good too without sacrificing safety."

I'm amused this person says they have seen 'prostitutes' around. What do you guys think they are talking about?

@thatguythere202
Seems to me that the obvious solution is to have the 1st play timeout be a proportion of the total game time.

I haven't been playing fast games lately, but I agree with you that I don't want this variable to be longer.

@bonhi Maybe everybody knows this, but exchange all actually just selects all. It can be useful if you're in a hurry and want to swap most but not all tiles

Recently I reinstalled windows and now once in a while the Chrome window that has lex crashes. (Chrome itself is fine, I just get an error message and have to reload the lex window.)

This has never happened to me before, has it been happening to anybody else?

@joncross I just tried the lex app on my Pixel with Android 14 and email games work. (I don't play live on my phone.)

@judy-cooper I agree that 2 weeks is pretty long. Perhaps they could set it up so both players could click on timeout options? Or the person setting the game chooses?

@dan Of course, you're right, but I just thought since they had made a change to the game recently, I would mention it.

I played a live game from my phone for the 1st time the other day, and I noticed something a bit weird: when I tried to 'host' a live game, I think I was instantly matched with somebody else who had the same 'time controls.' (And I think they were a website player.)

Has this happened to anybody else? I encountered the two games at once bug, and the person in the game that got deleted censored me, presumably because they thought I was just sitting to wait for timeout.

Please fix this annoying bug!

@dan I don't play many fast games these days, but I too would like to be able to disable the new animation!

@thatguythere202 I usually play these "email games" via the website and have the same issue...

This is a good idea. I usually reload the games page to see if it's my turn, but it would be much nicer if we didn't have to log back in so often and this notification idea was implemented.

@mapmakere said in Unusual / interesting words found from lex:

@anexparrot 'evite' is a go, but not 'evote'. UK dictionary. On checking tho, I see the former does not mean an invitation rec'd by email.

Yes, I've seen evite. Eviting is good in both UK and US as is evited!

@dan said in Unusual / interesting words found from lex:

@anexparrot This one's kinda silly and not particularly interesting. Just a funny inconsistency I guess.

The other day I was checking if this was valid. Somewhat surprisingly, it's not:

For a laugh, I then went on to check this one. Sure enough, it's valid:

I LOL'ed-- don't think i've ever seen butthead played!

I was just examining my last game and the bot said we missed:

"earthpea" - I've never heard this, but apparently it's an 'American hogpeanut'

"veejay" - I didn't realize this was valid. Isn't it kinda funny that veejays were probably only common from the 1980s until the late 90s?

Anybody else have interesting lex words to share?

@dan said in Chat issues:

@betterlate1-0 said in Chat issues:

It would be really nice if we could censor in the forum too.

Think I've mentioned this before, but that is possible.

Click their picture or username to get to their profile:

Click the three dots, then 'block user':

Thanks, Dan. I had just tried to block somebody and there wasn't that option, but I had forgotten I was not logged into the forum!

@dan I think the obvious answer is that it's fairly easy for the site to get a wordlist for the games but expensive to get a real, good dictionary with definitions. I googled one of lex's weird definitions once and it matched some mediocre (presumably free) dictionary, I forget the name.

@jrp32 said in Validity?:

Since there is no category that I see for commentary I guess this category will do as well as any. I suppose that many of the people who play word games are logophiles like myself. So, this is for those of you using V2 and getting the definitions of accepted words as a trailer to your screen of the game you are on. When, instead of a definition you just get a notice of "- This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries." or similar wording do you have a specific thought on that, before you look for the word in an aggregate of dictionaries? What is your thought?

I'm not sure I understand what you are looking for?

The words that often really amuse me are the ones the analysis tool says I or my opp missed! For instance, the other day it said we missed "zaptieh!" I'm pretty sure I've never seen that word before. (It's a Turkish policeman.)

@dan said in Poor analysis:

@anexparrot An alternative analysis tool seems to do a better job:

Thanks, Dan. Yes that tool looks much better. Why does your tool have values with decimals?