@thatguythere202 We agreed to abandon it, yeah, but it's still hanging around on my list of games and I keep swapping letters (rather than passing) so the 14-day forfeit does not kick in.

@dan I don't know how to upload anything to this site, but the sequence of moves was like this: opponent played JOWED across to start, I played FEH under the middle three letters, opponent played WEY above the middle three letters, I had eight vowels and swapped several, and Opponent extended the EWE in the centre to YEWEN. And there we stuck, unable to extend any word in any direction.

@sakamvari How do you cancel an email game without penalty when it has become hopelessy deadlocked? After four moves involving 13 letters, the board on game 30686810 is such that none of the six words can be extended in any way. We could both pass, I guess, but I am currently behind and don't wish to ship a shedload of points in a game that has only just begun.

@betterlate1-0 In the USA, Yankee is always a proper noun. In the UK, it is used with a lower case to indicate a particular type of bet, covering four outcomes as six doubles, four trebles and an accumulator.

@roymccoy opps sorry replied before I saw this

SCATtILY down to the Y scores 91

@mistertoad No, I'm saying that the reason CH disappeared from your list was that for the game for which you supplied a screenshot you were using the American dictionary, which leaves out several words familiar from the British English dictionary, including CH and ZO.

@mistertoad That looks like the American dictionary two-letter word list: no ZO

@dan-mitchell
and sometimes - well, once so far - you can find a word that scores more than their 100% word, and that immediately gets upgraded to the new maximum strength.

@thatguythere202 Well, I only play e-mail, and I find that, by hovering over the edge of the play button, as well as getting the rough colour code, I am given an exact percentage of the highest possible score (according to the lexulous bot/algorithm). From this I can calculate the points available for the highest score, and from that sometimes what letters need to go on what coloured squares to achieve it. It sometimes leads me to look for, and find, bingos that I missed. Of course, the highest scoring move isn't always the best in game-play, as you may want to defend, manage your rack, or set up a future move, but I enjoy working out what it is anyway.
As I'm more interested in puzzles, anagrams and word games than I am in competing, I find the new protocol suits me very well, but I can see how it might get in the way if you're interested in playing with a ticking clock.

It has certainly improved my email game. Just put any word down, check its percentage strength, and from that it's possible to work out what the 'best' score is, although I know from doing the puzzles that there are sometimes words with higher scores that the system misses.
Once you know what the highest score is, you can often work out, from the tiles in your rack and the openings on the board, what the word has to be, even if it's one that isn't in your vocabulary.
One thing it does not take into account, though, is defensive tactics: the highest-scoring word might leave your opponent the chance of a bingo, a treble/treble combo, or something like that, while the lower score gives you a better chance of winning the game.

While I appreciate the new, expanded stats page, some of them are puzzling to me. For example, how can I have 11,000+ bingos, but only 3,000+ scores over 50? Do the latter exclude the bingo bonuses? Or is there a time cut-off in some of the stats and not in others (I have been playing since 2009)? Why is my top score listed as 715 when I have screen shots of a game where I scored over 730? And what is the cut-off point for the longest word and highest score 'tile' displays shown on the right of the new lay-out, as I am sure I have exceeded both in the near-recent past, and my highest-ever single-play score over the past decade or more is well over 200, not the 100 or so indicated here.

While you're here :), does the points per move average include moves in the endgame when I had a less than full rack? Finally, do you include only classic lexulous in other's stats, as the large-board version (I have only played a couple of times: not for me), with its regular four-figure scores, would surely inflate some of them?

I have a different problem with player statistics: some of mine seem to make no sense. How do I have 11,000+ bingos, but only 3,000+ scores over 50 points, for example. My top score ever is shown as 715, but I have a screenshot of a game where I scored 730+.
How are each of the stats calculated? Are there different time periods involved? The Longest word and Highest score displays in the right-hand column, for example, appear only to relate to recent matches - I have been playing regularly since 2009.

@linda-mcdonald Click on dictionary, and the two-letter words appear - or at east they do on my version

It is not just that the first player has a double word, but if they have an eight-tile bingo in their rack they are pretty much guaranteed a three-figure score, which is hard to come back from. I have played the vast majority of my games with an old friend, and we developed the rule that whoever plays last in the previous game goes first in the rematch.
What prompted me to write, though, was that I have begun to reply to hosted games, where by default I go first. On two of the three games I started with a bingo, one seven letter, one eight. On both occasions the host immediately deleted the game and one blocked me. I guess in future I should just underplay my rack if I am lucky enough to get some good tiles to start.