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Re: 7 by many club
« Reply #285 on: August 23, 2021, 02:12:26 PM »
Well done to all of those players who found rosettes & mavens in yesterday's game.
The stand out for me was the high scoring double of doxydaisy.

I am kicking myself for failing to find so many " easy words " ; eleven ( again ), enrol, enroll & lovelorn.
I am blaming it on my local apothecary for failing to provide a suitable remedy for my Sunday hangover.
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« Reply #286 on: August 23, 2021, 03:06:27 PM »
Yes I didn’t pick up my draught from the apothecary - if so I might have seen lovelorn - also a word not seen so much today. I have to say the 7 by many is doing my head in, goodness you are all fantastic achieving rosettes so quickly. I noticed blackrockrose was one of these.
My nighttime sleep is being seriously impacted by this new game!
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« Reply #287 on: August 23, 2021, 03:27:42 PM »
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Re: 7 by many club
« Reply #288 on: August 23, 2021, 03:34:43 PM »
Quote from: Jacki on August 23, 2021, 03:06:27 PM
Yes I didn’t pick up my draught from the apothecary - if so I might have seen lovelorn - also a word not seen so much today. I have to say the 7 by many is doing my head in, goodness you are all fantastic achieving rosettes so quickly. I noticed blackrockrose was one of these.
My nighttime sleep is being seriously impacted by this new game!

I was one of the select group who missed LOVELORN, though I also missed REVELER (the single 'l' earns that red squiggly line; I did have reveller, however) - I wonder what kind of draught a lovelorn reveler may indulge in in order to bury the pain...
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« Reply #289 on: August 23, 2021, 04:47:11 PM »
If I were to look at the stats, I'm pretty sure the majority of my rosettes come at weekends, when I have more time - not to mention mental energy- on my hands. Case in point I was stuck with Last Word Syndrome for what seemed like ages, I had a little nap and when I got up the last word (levee) just popped into my head....
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« Reply #290 on: August 23, 2021, 08:36:43 PM »
Quote from: jancsika on August 23, 2021, 04:47:11 PM
I had a little nap and when I got up the last word (levee) just popped into my head....

With a levee popping into your head, does this mean you have a dirty mind???  ;D ;D ;D
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« Reply #291 on: August 24, 2021, 03:48:39 PM »
Quote from: Jacki on August 23, 2021, 03:06:27 PM
I have to say the 7 by many is doing my head in, goodness you are all fantastic achieving rosettes so quickly. I noticed blackrockrose was one of these.
My nighttime sleep is being seriously impacted by this new game!

When playing 7bm, i keep my sanity by lowering my expectations.
If i pass the best score, find the seed word & keep my missing words in single figures then i am satisfied.
The difficulty in finding a rosette or scoring a maven just makes it all the more pleasing when i do occasionally manage to do so.
In yesterday's game when i was beginning to think that the targets were impossible, i found the inspiration to persevere a little longer when i checked the scoreboard to see mkenuk, valerie & doxydaisy all with roses next to their name & rogue mother with a maven score.
So i do thank all of the elite players for setting such a very high standard which shows us mere mortals that it can be done & giving us some hope that maybe next time...
 
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« Reply #292 on: August 24, 2021, 06:18:35 PM »
I think it’s a bridge too far for me. The words I missed were certainly not common to me. But lockdown is providing me the chance to play, albeit in a L (learner) mode.
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« Reply #293 on: August 24, 2021, 06:51:52 PM »
Believe me when I say that I find 7bm almost impossible to come to grips with.  The game took me many months, with lots of misses, to get even a minor handle on it.  It is with pure fluke that I now manage the score that I do.  Perhaps because I blast away and type random letters hoping that they make up a word.  No-one is more surprised than I am when they do!  But, to be honest, being of "advanced years", I'm willing to admit that perhaps there are many words roaming around my foggy brain that even I'm not aware of.  The words that I do miss are the easiest which is so damn irritating.  And I don't care one hoot if the word is common or rare.  They are still words.
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« Reply #294 on: August 24, 2021, 09:52:10 PM »
Well put Valerie and I think the same way as you. A word is a word whether common or not. I played these 7 by many games in the your puzzles section for a while and it really did my head in (and still does) but I persevered until I got the hang of it and now thanks to Alan ;D I'm addicted to all of the puzzles.
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« Reply #295 on: August 25, 2021, 10:01:28 AM »
There is one thing that i know for sure & that is that we all love to play this wonderful game of chi but it does have its quirks.
Number one for me has always been the confusing plural rule, number 2, the industry specific words that are classed as common & number 3 the fact that there are 2 acceptable ways to spell the same word.
In general i agree with Val & Dox & really do not care how any word is classed unless of course the word in question costs me a rosette.

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« Reply #296 on: August 25, 2021, 11:51:44 AM »
Can I lend a hearty "hear, hear" to the above three comments. (Of course, if the forum had the ability to add a 'like' to a comment, I wouldn't need to write this...)  ;) ;) ;)
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« Reply #297 on: August 25, 2021, 02:04:50 PM »
Once again. rosettes were very hard to attain, so congratulations to those who managed to do so. ( nice to see a couple of non - regulars  in there - marlin & pat )
Gareth must get a special mention as he also reached the maven score (just).
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« Reply #298 on: August 25, 2021, 02:38:04 PM »
I was surprised by the number of people who fell one word short - I missed by two - as, once you got FLYLEAF, it follows that you would get FLYLEAVES.

Guess which two I missed...  ???
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« Reply #299 on: August 25, 2021, 02:45:33 PM »
My 2 were eyeless and salsa (yet again!!)
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