I've had a bold for a couple of weeks. My best score was around 9500 but it was blown away by the 4.6 update before I got enterprise-activated (which seemed to be required before I could submit to the leaderboard). Best score since is 8170.
Yes, the dictionary is really frustrating. There are quite a lot of good words it doesn't know - and if you hit one on the higher levels you've wasted enough time that you can't beat that level and your game is over.
I presume that you form words on the Storm by touching the letters in sequence? I reckon that would be a lot quicker than using the Bold trackball to navigate to each one in turn. I'm pretty sure that the Leaderboard doesn't distinguish scores on the Bold from those on the Storm, so people with the latter device have an advantage
For anyone who's interested, here's how the scoring works:
Letters are divided into three groups:
- A E I O U D G L N R S T
- B C F H M P V W Y
- J K Q X Z
The score for a word of length N consists of two components:
- A length-based score = N * (N-2)
- A letter-based score for each letter in groups 2 & 3 (that depends on N). Group 2 letters score (N-2)/2 bonus points and group 3 letters (N-2) bonus points. If the total bonus has a fraction it is rounded down.
My best word so far scored 262 and I have 231 quite a few times, but it can take quite a bit of time to figure out if you can make a really long word and if you can't see one you can fail the level...
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