Super Word Scrapers
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| Status: | Active |
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| Genre: | Word |
| Developer: | Fit Brains |
| Publisher: | Fit Brains |
| LTP badge type: | Generic 3 |
| Game version: | Full |
| Game length: | 10 rounds |
| Playable in non-IE browsers: | No |
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Gameplay information
Super Word Scrapers consists of 10 rounds, each with up to 5 sub-rounds. A sub-round has 2 disciplines:
- You have a fixed time (30 seconds in early rounds, 45 seconds in later rounds) to type as many words as possible for a given letter count. Round 1 is 3 letters, round 10 is 12 letters and so on. There's a designated bonus letter in each sub-round. Using the bonus letter in your words earns you additional points, see below. In each round, you must complete the "skyscraper" for that round to move on to the next. The skyscrapers have 26 floors, one for each letter of the alphabet. To build a floor, you must make a word starting with the floor's letter. In short, you have to make a word starting with every letter. You lose the game if you don't make any new floors in a sub-round. If you make all 26 floors before the 5th sub-round, there will be no more sub-rounds in the current round.
- You are asked a language-related question and you have 10 seconds (5 seconds in later rounds) to choose the correct of 4 answers. If you answer correctly, you get some bonus points.
Scoring
The scoring of the word-making sub-rounds is as follows: Each letter has a "current score" which is shown in the central area. Whenever you make a word, the value for the word's first letter is added to your score and 100 is subtracted from the letter score (unless it's already at 100). For bonus letters, the game keeps a counter of how many you have. For each word, the bonus counter is either increased by the number of bonus letters in the word or reset to zero if there are no bonus letters. Then 50 times the counter value is added to your score.
Tips for a high score
Assuming that you are solving the game algorithmically (seeing how human typing is not fast enough), this is a good way to make lots of points:
- When the first sub-round starts, download the word list from http://zone.msn.com/binGame/swsc/default/#.txt (replace # with the number of letters you need, ranging from 3 to 12).
- In each sub-round, sort it by descending bonus letter count. Start entering words from the top of the list. Remove the words from the list as you go. In sub-rounds 2 to 4, ensure that you build at least one new floor by finding the first word that starts with a letter that builds a floor and move it to the top of the list. In sub-round 5, do the same for all letters that have missing floors.
A bot that follows this algorithm can be obtained here: [1].
Bugs
- Normally you should only be able to pause the game when the level clock starts running. However, in round 1, sub-round 1, you can pause it earlier. If you do so, the clock will start running while the game is paused. To avoid this, wait until the bonus letter pop-up is gone before pausing the game.
- Although this game uses Flash, it isn't playable in Firefox because it won't show the entire game window.
