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dreamsharkOkay, you Weboggle addicts (you know who you are!), now you've got me addicted to this thing too! Thank goodness the site flakes out every couple of hours and drops connection or I wouldn't have gotten a thing done yesterday.
I still like WordWiggle too. Webogglers, do give it a try. It's quite a different experience. Weboggle is great for practice, but WordWiggle is where you go to strut your stuff. WordWiggle is hardcore. Unlike Weboggle, on WordWiggle you lose points for illegal words. None of that instant hand-holding stuff on word "guesses" - you don't find out until the game is over whether "dit" is really a word or not, leaving you to hang yourself out to dry with "dits" and "diting" and "dited" if you really decide to commit.
Even more important, while Weboggle is played in realtime with your score erased as soon as the next round starts, in WordWiggle you play a series of games on your own schedule and each one of your scores is preserved for everybody to see. So if somebody walks into the room IRL and interrupts you in the middle of the 10th game in a tournament, it can be a real tragedy, especially if you were thaaaat close to catching up with the guy who's usually just ahead of you in the rankings.
WordWiggle offers the option of clicking on letters to choose them, but after trying the typing-based Weboggle I discovered that WordWiggle also allows you to type in words on the keyboard. Typing is a much faster entry method, but I find that I still prefer the tap-a-letter method for tough boards where I'm looking for longer words. I just feel more engaged with the board that way.
Another nice thing about WordWiggle is there is much more variation in the games. Board size varies from 4x4 to 7x7, and the times can range from 1 minute to 9 minutes. Since I'm not exactly a speed demon at this type of thing, I prefer games of 4 minutes or more, giving me time to search out those satisfying long words. Most of the active tournaments are 3 minutes or less, but guess what - any logged in user can start a tournament!
Oh, and one more thing about WordWiggle - there's a (free) downloadable version for Palm Pilot. That's what led me to the site in the first place.
I still like WordWiggle too. Webogglers, do give it a try. It's quite a different experience. Weboggle is great for practice, but WordWiggle is where you go to strut your stuff. WordWiggle is hardcore. Unlike Weboggle, on WordWiggle you lose points for illegal words. None of that instant hand-holding stuff on word "guesses" - you don't find out until the game is over whether "dit" is really a word or not, leaving you to hang yourself out to dry with "dits" and "diting" and "dited" if you really decide to commit.
Even more important, while Weboggle is played in realtime with your score erased as soon as the next round starts, in WordWiggle you play a series of games on your own schedule and each one of your scores is preserved for everybody to see. So if somebody walks into the room IRL and interrupts you in the middle of the 10th game in a tournament, it can be a real tragedy, especially if you were thaaaat close to catching up with the guy who's usually just ahead of you in the rankings.
WordWiggle offers the option of clicking on letters to choose them, but after trying the typing-based Weboggle I discovered that WordWiggle also allows you to type in words on the keyboard. Typing is a much faster entry method, but I find that I still prefer the tap-a-letter method for tough boards where I'm looking for longer words. I just feel more engaged with the board that way.
Another nice thing about WordWiggle is there is much more variation in the games. Board size varies from 4x4 to 7x7, and the times can range from 1 minute to 9 minutes. Since I'm not exactly a speed demon at this type of thing, I prefer games of 4 minutes or more, giving me time to search out those satisfying long words. Most of the active tournaments are 3 minutes or less, but guess what - any logged in user can start a tournament!
Oh, and one more thing about WordWiggle - there's a (free) downloadable version for Palm Pilot. That's what led me to the site in the first place.
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Date: 2006-10-15 05:41 pm (UTC)K.
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Date: 2006-10-15 05:51 pm (UTC)Send me an email or something next time you're on!
Do you IM? If so, maybe it's time I figured out how to enable some IM manager on my computer. I've never used any of them, believe it or not.
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Date: 2006-10-15 05:56 pm (UTC)K. [because I don't trust them. I can do encrypted chat with the Adium client, though]
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Date: 2006-10-15 06:52 pm (UTC)