Any WEBoggle players?

[manasecret]

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f294/barneyis666/weboggletitle.jpg (http://weboggle.shackworks.com/)

Ever since I found out about the free multiplayer online version of Boggle around the beginning of this year, I have been completely addicted. And in the meantime, I've managed to get several family members and friends and those friends' friends and family members equally addicted.

Anyone here play? Here's the link to the game --

http://weboggle.shackworks.com/

For those who don't know or perhaps need a refresher, Boggle is a board game where the object is to make as many words as possible from a board of 4x4 letters.

So take for example the 4x4 board below --

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f294/barneyis666/weboggle1.jpg

So you find as many three-or-more letter words using any series of letters that are touching each other, but each letter can only be used once for each word you find. Note the letters can be touching on any side, including the diagonals.

From the board above, some example words are

tag
die
tune
tuned
bogied
abide
dune
dine
end

And so on. You get more points for words with more letters.

3 or 4 letters -- 1 point
5 letters -- 2 points
6 letters -- 3 points
7 letters -- 5 points
8 or more -- 11 points

So there's a strategy choice between looking for longer words to get more points or looking for a bunch of smaller words, or somewhere in between (generally what happens).

If you guys play look for me there as David Scarboggle D. I've slowly gotten better, if I'm really on I usually get top ten. There's tough competition there pretty much at all times of the day, everyday...

[KillerGremlin]

so i see the word "hidden" in there, does that work, or does the order of the touching letters need to be sequential?

[manasecret]

so i see the word "hidden" in there, does that work, or does the order of the touching letters need to be sequential?

They must be sequential, I failed to mention that. So hidden doesn't work.

[manasecret]

Apparently word games are beneath people here?

[GameMaster]

I've been playing. It atsonishes me how many words I miss each round. And here I thought I was man of many words. :(

Gotta keep practicing!

[manasecret]

I've been playing. It atsonishes me how many words I miss each round. And here I thought I was man of many words. :(

Gotta keep practicing!

Yesss someone else who plays. I'm equally astonished by the words I miss. At first I thought most of the words I wasn't getting were Chaucer-esque/made-up words, words that are technically English (according to dictionary.com at least, for example the word 'les') but that no one (even the most self-proclaimed wordsmith) would ever use nowadays.

But then I started clicking on more of the three-letter and sometimes four-letter words. Most of those are words that are still valid nowadays but which I had never heard of let alone used. Words such as 'pax' or 'lode' or 'sen' or 'pes' or 'roe' (and what feels like infinitely many more), all equally valid even today that I had never heard of until I played weboggle. (Look them up, you might be surprised by their meanings.)

Now my goal is to know all of these valid words that I never heard of before this game, to know them so well that they roll off the top of my head as easily as any other word like 'get' or 'too' or 'fan' etc.