I'm an official BOOKWORM!!!
 

now THAT looks like you!


:D

Damn you flint...you reawoke my addiction to this game....only my mom and I used to play it for FREE a few years back...now I suppose I'll have to save up so I can get the full version. Stupid flint. Hmph.

Update. You can definitely save a game point with this file:

C:\Program Files\PopCap Games\Bookworm Deluxe\players\your name\classic

I saved the "classic" file to my flash drive, brought it home, and continued this game on a different machine/different install.

Oooh, I would like a Bookworm Supreme, but hold the sour cream, please.

Level 32 complete on both running versions of this game...
...I like this screenshot better because of the 8-letter word.

:::ahem::: that's Bookworm Supreme, Level One. btw here's my best word... 10,000+ points!

See, that is why I suck at this game. I would not have found that word. I would have taken "deep" or "peed" for a lot less points.

I always scan for things like "ion" or "ing" that can build longer words. And that path travels through some bonus tiles.

Do you try to set yourself up to get the bonus word (keg, in this instance?)

Mrs. Dallas goes to great lengths to line up the bonus words.

The bonus word can really screw things up. If you tiptoe around the Ks and Gs on the board, afraid to play them because you want to get that bonus word, then what have you got? A board, full of useless Ks and Gs, that's impossible to make any decent moves on. It's best (in my experience) not to focus on the bonus word, unless all the letters present themselves at the same time, and you can shift the board to line it up.

Note: There is a directory in the program files where you can edit the bonus word dictionary. I haven't done that because I want to know my best score without cheating.

That may have been one of my problems, too. I always tried to line up that bonus word. How much is it even worth? Better to take the 8 letter word for 6000 points!

How is that cheating? You're using everything available to you. All you're doing is accepting an arbitrary set of constraints. IIRC, you've already moved the bar once when you changed from the free version to the paid version. Different constraints, now you can have longer words and saved games. Still arbitrary. Just like choosing to associate terms like "cheating" with the changes you describe.

Good play though!

I want my score to reflect what I can achieve on an unaltered version of the game. The concept of "cheating" is in the context of comparing my scores to the scores of other players. The assumption is that the other players are playing with an unaltered bonus word dictionary, which may not be the case, but as an unknown factor I err on the side of this assumption.