So lately I’ve been playing yet another word game, Wordiply, by The Guardian. The way this game works is that they give you a short series of letters (the instructional blurb below says it’s a “starter word” but it is most definitely not always an actual word) and then you have to come up with the longest five words you can think of that includes these letters. This is a more difficult task than you might expect.
Anyway, what’s interesting about this game is that, unlike some games I play that arbitrarily exclude valid dictionary words according to an editor’s caprice*, that never, ever include the letter “s”**, that reject perfectly cromulent words formed by adding negating prefixes***, and that don’t seem to be hep to all the groovy new lingo****, Wordiply will cheerfully allow you to stretch your word lengths out by pluralizing them, negating them, conjugating them, intensifying them … You name it, the game allows it. And it even permits things that I can’t imagine appearing in that other game, for instance, one of the eleven-letter words I played in this screen shot:
Okay, yeah, sorry. But I had to do it.
* I’m looking at you, Spelling Bee.
** I’m looking at you again, Spelling Bee.
*** I’m looking at you again, again, Spelling Bee.
**** I’m looking at … Well, you know what I’m looking at.
Viscosity 
I’ve come to admire your wife.
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Rickrolling least among them
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I feel a little bit like it’s cheating when I keep using variations of the same word to get a higher letter score, but hey, if it’s gonna let me, I’m gonna do it! 😁
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Word games are fun…sometimes! Looks like you found a good one to manipulate, LOL!
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I do also enjoy guessing Spelling Bee words I know it isn’t going to accept just so I can take a screen shot and say something snarky about it! 😂
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Now THIS sounds like a FAB game! And any game that allows “Rick Rolling” is a great game to me!!!
*singing* “Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around or hurt you…..”
***giggles*** Sherri-Ellen (BellaSita Mum) & MOL BellaDharma*
*Mee-yow Mistur Jamess now BellaSita iss singin THE HOLE song…..lookss like you started a RICKROLL avvylanche! 😉
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you won the game AND you Rickrolled us! I’d say that’s a winner X2!
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Glad I didn’t let you down! 😂
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I have a hard enough time with Wordle. 🙂
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Yeah, I would have to say this one gives me more trouble than Wordle!
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NICE POST 💯❤️💙💚
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It makes more sense to me, those variations should be allowed.
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I agree! It’s pretty annoying to me that for instance Spelling Bee never includes the letter “S”, ever, because they don’t want to open the door for plurals. Well fine, just allow the S inside words and disallow plurals. It’s hardly the greatest programming challenge of our age!
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