Repeating Words...

[Hook]

Seems that the "word picker" needs adjusting, or more words need to be added. I probably played 7 or 8 ganmes yesterday and got "dead", "air raid" and "air conditioner" 3 to 4 times each.

[T110MAS]

yeh i agree, it is annoying,, and more words need to be added. i suggested a feature where we could add our own words to rocketman, so hopefully this will be looked into, in the near future.

apparently, there are 1100 words in the 'easy' playmode, and 1700 words in the 'hard' playmode, so if you think about it, that is a lot...

[Hook]

That is a lot. You would think the odds of getting the same words would be relatively low.

[T110MAS]

yeh but if you think about it, you play about 30 rounds per game, then if you play 8 times, thats almost 300 words, well 260, but yeh i agree its still alot to come up 3 or 4 times

[Rocketman]

I'm aware of this problem. Well, this is my point of view:

The laws or probability. If you take a card from a deck of cards...look at it...and put it back into the deck, shuffle the deck...and take a new card...then there is a probablility of 1 to 52 that you get the same card. If you repeat this pattern...lets say after a while, you have seen 25% of the cards...then it is 25% chance that you will get one of the cards that you have already seen.

If you want to continue playing scribble until you have seen 99% of all the words...then you will have to about 4700 rounds...and during these 4700 rounds you will have seen a few words repeated 14 times. Assumed that the wordlist have 1000 words.

I will check the random algoritm...if there is anything that is not proper. But i think the solution is to add more words. Right now we have 1000 easy words and 1700 hard words.

In real life, you put back the used card in the bottom of the deck...and take a new from the top. We cant do this...because different players have played different games with other players, and have seen different words before.

[Hook]

Thanks Rocketman. Sounds like the only solution would be to add more words (unless there is something there in that random algorithm). Pretty amazing that I got so many repeats. It should be interesting to see how long it takes before I see them again. Played a bit last night and they didn't show.

[T110MAS]

yeh and good example there rocketman

i think it would be a cool add on if this word creater thing was done, so long as there was some way the list could be validated for offensive words.

1 thing i have noticed tho is the scoring part of the game. i dont mean the set amount of points is bad, but i mean that sometimes it seems that people are given too little points when they get the word correct. i dont know if this is due to lagg in the screen not showing your opponent has found the word, or what, but it seems a lot of the time i find a word, then someone else does soon after, yet they get the full points...hmmm!

i know i shouldnt complain cos its all for fun and all, but when playin against the likes of miss lacey or miss simply play, its all about the pride! so it become another story! mwah hahahahaha!

anyway yeh i duno if its lagg or not...


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T110MAS

[Rocketman]

I was mistaken, i thought we had about 1000, but actually there were only about 700 words in the easy wordlist and in the hard wordlist about 1400.
Yesterday I added +400 new words to the easy list and +600 to the hard one.
Now we have:
Easy words: 1134
Hard words: 2010

Emmie and SimplyPlay! made a great job collecting these new words for me.
Thank you so much!

[Hook]

Thanks Rocketman! And thanks to Emmie and Simply! Good job girls!

[Rocketman]

Oh, i forgot to give cretit to Lacey. She is the one that made the original 2 wordlists in english. Wtg Lacey!

[King-Hazzer]

Well done Lacey , Emmie , Simply! , Rocketman and the other owners for thinking and making this FABULAS game it truly rocks and is addictive! well done to all you guys! and thanks ;D