I am a cyborg
Well, according to the Facebook application ‘Word Challenge’, I am anyway.
Those of you who know me know I like word games, so when I found a little application on Facebook where it gives you six letters and you’ve got to make as many words out of that as possible to score points, I was bound to be interested.
There are various bonuses to be obtained — a four letter word will give you an extra 2 seconds play time, whereas a five letter word will give you an extra 3 seconds time and a six letter word will give you the extra three seconds plus a bonus round where you have to unscramble one of your friends names.
I’m quite smug about the fact that I’m sitting out there on 36,000 points, some 15,000 clear of my nearest friend, and that I’ve qualified as an anagram cyborg (the highest grade). However, I do recognise that it’s only a game and also that some people have scored comfortably over 200,000+ points (some are reporting 1,000,000+ points) but even if I could keep gaining bonus time, I don’t think I would have the patience to sit at the computer for that length of time…
I do like the ranking system though — depending on how many points you score, it describes your vocabulary as being equivalent to various things including a mime or a playground bully (poor scores), through a celebrity chef and a circus ringleader, through lawyer, librarian, scribe and scientist, philosopher and what I had assumed to be the top grade — poet (as all the other grades cover a range of about 800 points, and this one goes from 20,800 all the way up to 29,999).
If you’re already on facebook, and you like word games, why not give this one a try? Only don’t beat my score else I’ll feel obliged to waste even more of my time trying to get the high score amongst my friends again…
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That’s just like Boggle, my favorite game ever. I absolutely love Boggle, but I have a hard time getting people to play with me because I’m slightly competitive when I play it. I have from time to time gotten entire groups of friends addicted to the game however, and for that I am proud.
Cool - that’s a good version of those word twist games, which I was getting a bit bored of.
@Shannon - if you like boggle (and are on facebook) then look out for the scramble app. that’s the one I’m truly addicted to.