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01 November 2007

Show off your word smarts, feed the world

post by: matildaben at: 22:17 | 13 comments

I was trying to get my score up to 50 but it hovered around 47-48 for the most part once the words got really hard. Topped out at 49.

posted by matildaben 01 November | 22:28

yeesh, and I got 42, the meaning of life and everything.

posted by eekacat 01 November | 22:41

OK. I kept trying and got to 44. Eek

posted by eekacat 01 November | 23:00

Yeah, I get bored too quickly for that game. I tried it when it was on the blue and hovered around 47, 48 for a while. This time I'm at 46/47; clearly I've burned a few more vital brain cells since then - excellent!

posted by mygothlaundry 01 November | 23:20

If you guys are hovering around the upper 40s I don't even want to say what my average was. This is one of the cooler uses of click-thru advertising that I've seen.

posted by Slack-a-gogo 01 November | 23:47

Topped out at 49. I kept getting the creeping feeling it was giving me a pass to encourage me to keep playing, as many of my not-quite-sure answers were based on 10% analysis of prefixes, suffixes & roots and 90% luck.

posted by Triode 02 November | 00:28

39-40 for me. Not so bad considering that english is not my native language. :)

posted by Memo 02 November | 00:34

Unlurking here as I've missed the most recent 'introduce yourself' threads...I got to 50, but it took me 3000 grains of rice to do it.

*waves to all*

posted by faineant 02 November | 02:50

up to 49 so far (with lots of educated guessing!)... must leave house... aargh. Will return for a try at 50!

posted by taz 02 November | 04:25

I got to the mid 40s before I stopped. Cool site, although I saw it the last time it was here as well.

Hi, faineant. Why don't you post a "Hello, I'm new! Please be gentle." sort of thing?

posted by chuckdarwin 02 November | 05:11

Before the first coffee of the morning, I was at 47/48, which isn't bad.

posted by essexjan 02 November | 05:27

Yep, I'll admit I used lots of educated guessing based on knowledge of Latin and Greek roots, among other foreign languages.

posted by matildaben 02 November | 09:32

Upper forties. And yes, guessing based on word roots.

posted by deborah 02 November | 14:02

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