<p>Anyone else try this scrabble like game? It’s a bit addictive.</p>
<p>This is a free game that’s played online on an endless ‘board’ with endless ‘tiles’. It’s much like scrabble with the same scoring, etc. but one isn’t competing with others.</p>
<p>The only ‘competition’ I’ve done so far is when I noticed someone else popped up making words in ‘my’ area I quickly surrounded them with words and trapped them in so they couldn’t keep going! </p>
<p>It’s at WordSquared.com but doesn’t seem to work in IE but it works in Chrome and Firefox.</p>
<p>but you apparently can’t play off the other person’s tiles? that is, you can’t hook something onto your tiles that also intersects the other person’s?</p>
<p>You can hook to the other person’s word if your word connects to it in which case it’ll turn the letter(s) non-grayed which means you can now play them. I just tried something else that worked - I intersected with the first letter of the other person’s word, which turned that letter non-grayed for me, and then I added to the end of that same word which turned all the letters between the beginning and end non-gray which means I can play off of them.</p>
<p>Below is an example and the plays - </p>
<p>1 - Other person’s
HIRE
(all letters above grayed)</p>
<p>2 - Mine
G
O
T
HIRE
(The H went non-gray)</p>
<p>3.
G
O
T
HIRES
(when I added the S the whole HIRES went non-gray so I can play it all)</p>
<ol>
<li>I can now play off of all the letters in HIRES</li>
</ol>
<p>So it appears the letters by the others that were surrounded by your own plays end up playable by you.</p>
<p>I tried to play across another person’s tiles. Even though I hooked my play to my own tiles, and even though all words were valid, the system wouldn’t let me do it. Doesn’t make sense to me.</p>
<p>The board was something like:</p>
<p>DOG
. . .
cats</p>
<p>with DOG being my word, separated by a line of empty squares from their* cats*. I tried to play GATE, using my G and their t. But it didn’t work.</p>
<p>^^ It seems like that would have worked and I’ve made similar word connections. I’ve noticed a few bugs in the game - maybe you came across one.</p>
<p>LasMa, I’m new at it so don’t know the answers. There is that map thing in the top left corner of the screen that shows where you are on the “board” in relation to others but don’t know if you can just start over. I played for 2 hours last night and just kept moving back and forth between my own words scrolling up and down. I think I’m addicted.</p>
<p>I don’t think you can just move to a new area to start playing without starting a new game because any word you lay down must connect with one of your previous words. The only exception is at the start of a new game.</p>
<p>If you left click on a word on the board it’ll come back and tell you who (although it might be ‘anonymous’) played that word relatively recently along with a definition of the word. </p>
<p>I don’t know of any way to locate other players playing the board.</p>
<p>One of the stategies for getting a high cumulative score is to not get ‘penned in’ - something I’ve enjoyed doing to players ;). When another player is playing in the same area as you, you can see their words appearing. It’s then a race to see if you can quickly surround them with your words before they can break away enough to keep playing 9assuming you want to be mean like me and do this). There’s a challenge in coming up with words to place in the right blocking pattern quickly enough.</p>
<p>Have you noticed the high scorers on the right? Now those are hard core addicts!</p>
<p>Oh, I have no issues with being mean at scrabble. :D</p>
<p>I find the map fascinating in and of itself. When I started 2 nights ago, my little area was empty and now it’s completely filled. I just now expanded it to full screen and started dragging, and it goes on and on and on.</p>
<p>I have seen the high scorers on the right of the screen. Spidercamp must be playing in some remote undiscovered corner of the map in order to rack up 1.7M points!</p>
<p>Oh dear, I don’t think I’d better try this game until I catch up with my real job. I really like scrabble, but just play with my husband and one cutthroat friend.</p>
<p>Good instincts, mathmom. This is really adicting! I think it’s more exciting when someone is playing nearby, so there’s at least some pressure not to get boxed in. I’ve played solo several times and it gets a little dull, while also being hard to quit. I can only pray that I don’t rack up 1.7 million points! I’d have to actually admit to having no life :)</p>
<p>I ended up doing a long chain eastward to bridge two ‘islands’ of words. Once done I then went south to another island and than west again which ended up making a huge box. If I was really bored I could write my name in it in cursive out of words in the middle of the box but that’d be kind of difficult but it might be interesting to try. </p>
<p>The best scrabble player I know is…my mother. She’s one of those who complains about her letters then plops down either a 7 letter word or plops down 2 letters but ends up with a ridiculous amount of points from it. My D introduced this WordSquared game to her on mother’s day. I don’t know if she’s tried it yet.</p>
<p>I really think you all would like online Scrabble at The Pixie Pit (if you Google “Pixie Pit” it comes up as the first hit). It’s one of the best interfaces I’ve seen. I think there’s a $12 annual subscription fee but it’s worth it if you play a lot. My sister and I play every day. </p>
<p>They have regular Scrabble and Super Scrabble (which uses a bigger board and more letters, including quadruple word and quadruple letter squares). You play by e-mail and you can specify which dictionaries are acceptable and use WordFinder to look up words if you want.</p>
<p>I see, so that’s how you can rack up big scores. I made a mistake with my first game, I started in a “lake.” But there’s a thin little “sandbar” with an “ocean” on the other side. I’m going to see if I can jump over it.</p>
<p>But just in case that doesn’t work, how do you end a game?</p>
<p>If you haven’t already, expand the map to full-screen and just scroll around. It’s HUGE and the patterns are so interesting. Some people just make a long string for miles; that’s probably where the high-scorers are. And I have seen several cases of people forming words, writing their names like you mentioned, drawing a heart, making geometric shapes.</p>