This note is just a thank you for making the BACKSPACE key act in a Lexulous manner when placing tiles instead of an OS manner.

@dan-mitchell, I think that the CSW19(Collin's Scrabble Words) is filled with contrived words and words that were originally not in SOWPODS because it claimed to forbid words by shortening, acronyms and slang and did a reasonable, if not complete, job of that. By contrived words, i mean words that are "made up" with the sole purpose of advancing play in word games. Where ZEN used to be used as an example of what were not playable words in SOWPODS, it is now a part of CSW19. ZE was recently added to CSW19 and I feel it is a just a matter of time before we see a two letter "V" word. Too many words of CSW19, show in the Collin's dictionary as "no definition
found".
I am still back with the TWL98+(and previous and successive issues of TWL --"The Word List") for US Scrabble and SOWPODS for British tournament play.

the "v2" is being whipped into shape but there are still things that do not work as expected or advertised. Two are --

1. clicking on "see more completed games" goes to stats.
2. the BACKSPACE key has no program override and respects the browser default of moving within the tab to the previous tab of that position.

cut from chat, i passed, but with the new "both passed" end-of-game on the count of 1, the game ended.... cut --
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Actually, i think this is a pretty ridiculous rule. I don't know, it may have been established for a good reason but i don't know it. i have many people with all zero stats join my table and i do not want to play them. therefore i delete the game. So yes, how many is "too many"?

When I try to go to "more completed games" from the home screen it directs me to my stats instead.

@flea10009 LOL! If you search out the definition of the new 2-letter "Z" word, "ZE". you will get a laugh at how ridiculous and illogical The Official Word List (currently CSW19, for LEX, I believe) has become. I suggest that the new 2 letter V word will be "VA" with some faux intellectual explanation that it is a particle of "VA VA VOOM".

This is no big deal at all but if the numbers are supposed to represent ratings changes, i see that in my case it is reversed....
(That is, after this game my rating was 2192)

https://www.lexulous.com/v2/stats/558287046654

@thatguythere202 said in Too many i's!:

@sakamvari saying the tile distribution is "randomly chosen" makes it seem as if you have not understood the original complaint. The letters that each player receives during the game may be random, but that isn't what the complaint is about. It's the actual number of letters in the basket (or the bag, or the pot, or whatever you call it: where all the letters come from). Proportionally it seems as if the game always has too many I's. (apologies if I have misunderstood the complaint myself!)

You did not misunderstand what was said.

@thatguythere202, the silliness of "OK" being considered a valid word is indicative of the whole mess. I started playing the UK wordlist, (CSW19) currently, out of frustration. There were too many words that went against the stated principles of what a scrabble dictionary word should be for me to take it seriously as i used to. There used to be a few that should not have been there, IN MY OPINION --like JATO and RATO --those are acronyms, i don't care how you cut it, and TRANQ, that is tranquilizer by shortening and a few more were there in 1998 (TWL98 time in the US) and SOWPODS (an acronym made from OSPD and OWL [but where is the "L"?]) in the UK and a lot of the rest of the English Speaking world.
Now, i am sure you found that Collin's (The C of CSW19) defines "ZE" as indicative of a foreign accent, usually French, as in "go to ze store". "OK" is an abbreviation of "Oll Korrect" an early American saying.
So, up until a few years ago, they mostly stayed with their guidelines, then the guidelines were thrown out the window...............
Anyway, these days, i use all of those i mentioned whereas i used to avoid doing so out of principle.

@lexulous said in Play button unresponsive on final move:

@flea10009 rematch seems to be fine, can you please share a screenshot in case you find it not working?

this may be an old topic, but i want to chime in and say that it is NOT working fine, at least for me, in V2, using Firefox as the base browser.

1. rematch = yes, use same parameters = yes
2. Screen changes and appears to be processing commands but hangs.
3. Escape key ends the hang.
4. Screen refresh returns to the finished game.
5. But......new rematch game is now ready to play when I get to it.

editorial comment -- much more complicated than necessary.

@tvrajan said in Too many i's!:

The tile distribution is weird. There are as many i's (8) as e's. This should not be the case. In standard English usage, the ratio of usage of e:i is 11:7, not 1:1 as in Lexulous. Please change this!

this is a problem that has been around for years.......
i have come to know a few words that use 2 or even 3 I's (like Insipid) in order to get rid of them. They are almost never the high scoring words but are better than swapping them and getting 0 points for the trouble.

@flea10009 LOL! If you search out the definition of the new 2-letter "Z" word, "ZE". you will get a laugh at how ridiculous and illogical The Official Word List (currently CSW19, for LEX, I believe) has become. I suggest that the new 2 letter V word will be "VA" with some faux intellectual explanation that it is a particle of "VA VA VOOM".

@haftoplay is correct. I know there are times that i fail to run up scores when i could because i know it is disheartening but when that is the case (not so much these days) i try not to be obvious.
Right now i am playing someone who has slammed me four straight games, is working to do so on a fifth game, and i do not find myself wanting to play her.

@Dan Mitchell, I want to know how long this has been there.
I had not seen it until you pointed it out......

This note is just a thank you for making the BACKSPACE key act in a Lexulous manner when placing tiles instead of an OS manner.

@dan-mitchell, I think that the CSW19(Collin's Scrabble Words) is filled with contrived words and words that were originally not in SOWPODS because it claimed to forbid words by shortening, acronyms and slang and did a reasonable, if not complete, job of that. By contrived words, i mean words that are "made up" with the sole purpose of advancing play in word games. Where ZEN used to be used as an example of what were not playable words in SOWPODS, it is now a part of CSW19. ZE was recently added to CSW19 and I feel it is a just a matter of time before we see a two letter "V" word. Too many words of CSW19, show in the Collin's dictionary as "no definition
found".
I am still back with the TWL98+(and previous and successive issues of TWL --"The Word List") for US Scrabble and SOWPODS for British tournament play.

cut from chat, i passed, but with the new "both passed" end-of-game on the count of 1, the game ended.... cut --
" "