New Scaratings

Hadn't played in a while.

Good to see another game fish...SNOOK!!!

Wow, End Zone sure dominated the network in Lex last night. Guess I haven't been paying much attention. Eric, have you always been this good at Lex?

BO

Oh sure, it's a good game. And completely understand good and bad days, everybody has them. But I guess my question is, almost 9k average is great over a 6 month span, were you averaging almost 9k a year or two ago and I just hadn't noticed?

BO

I'm going in the opposite direction. I think these last two weeks are my first two out of the top 10 since the game started. Certainly as a classicist in my youth the word origin is one of my main tools to guessing, so that's definitely a big help, although I am not sure it's more help now than it was one two or three years ago. My average has decreased too from mid 9s to notably under 9 in the last year, so from my POV the game is harder than the old days Eric and BO are referring to. I would stress I think the game is BETTER, and much more interesting, because it used to be 9 gimmes and a guess for the well-read three weeks out of four. But it's a game I am scoring less on than I used to, as are most given the leader boards. I'd say it's where it should be now. 3 or 4 gimmes to not alienate the casual player, 2 or 3 separators for the word fans, and usually at least a couple of stinkers, maybe three (thankfully not often guess-the-species any more - snook was not part of the toughies this week) to make the rankings worth looking at.

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