Thank you, Liz! The world all makes sense now.

14. spreading widely or driving off

Your answer: repel
repel means "reject outright and bluntly"

The correct answer was dispersion

Repel has no connotation of spreading widely, which dispersion does. Also, but less reliably since the online dictionary that is sourced for this game does contain errors, repel is a verb and the definition was a gerund, which makes it functionally a noun, meaning it ought to match with a noun.

15. heavyweight

Your answer: an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 201 pounds

... could cause some consternation among the lightweights

The following always slows me down, because it makes me giggle:

15. turban

Your answer: a small round woman's hat

I keep picturing a small round woman crowned with an enormous hat. Am I the only one?

My English teacher might have suggested "a woman's small round hat"

Just sayin'.

You are absolutely correct! It's the classic misplaced modifier. Reminds of the time I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How it got in my pajamas, I'll never know.

Just curious about Word. I have had 30 straight consonants. The only four vowels I have got was from trading in my onslaught of consonants. Is this usual to have streaks like that? I have never encountered something like this before, although I have had 6 Q's and 4 Z's at one time! lol

I once had a similar run with vowels. Random events can produce surprising outcomes sometimes.

I thought the following offering on Word Wizard was questionable?

Attempt to anticipate or predict

Your answer: forecast
forecast means "judge to be probable"

The correct answer was outguess

I thought the same thing when I got that one a couple of hours ago.

Another confusing definition. I have checked a few online dictionaries, and many have the same definition, but no real explanation.



The word is 'white-out'.

Can anyone please assist?

It's a printing term, describing a technique of adjusting the spaces between lines by inserting pieces of lead between the blocks for the individual characters. Of course, it made a lot more sense when type was set by hand using a different little block for each letter!

Thanks, mate! I would never have guessed that...

This is with regard to the mini-game. We accumulate our letters at the left of the existing letters, we have them drop off from the right, we can only trade from the right. Surely it should follow that when we utilise our letters they should be taken from the right? (ie, oldest letters taken first?)

To illustrate my point: I have had a lone Q sitting in the penultimate space (an E to its right) for quite some time. I used a small word with 2 E's to try to bring the Q to a drop off position, to no effect, because I happened to own 3 E's - the one on the right is still there. AAARRGGGHHH!

That's been a frustration since the beginning. You can always trade the Q along with another unloved consonant, if you can get it adjacent. Or accumulate the letters for quintessence.

Mmm, I have now submitted at least three small words since acquiring the ..QE, and have not had a surplus of consonants to date. Hope springs eternal, however.


S A I E T A E Q E

qats? The plural of a shrub used to make an intoxicating tea.

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/qat

10. the quality of being free from errors or interruptions

Your answer: correctness
correctness means "conformity to social expectations"

The correct answer was smoothness


I'll have to remember that "free from errors" isn't "correct" in this game.

I really have done something to offend the Wiz. I wonder if anyone can let me know what burnt offerings and bloody sacrifices I need to make in order to get a simple N or T (or even an A)

Y E U O I Y J O I E Being from Australia, I know I could use the word JOEY, but 1 lousy point? Come on Wiz, give us a break!

Trade two vowels - I can't tell from your list whether it would be the EI or EU end, but either leaves you with good vowels, and a guaranteed consonant. (Although you don't seem yet to have a full rack, and I usually hang on to see if the last couple of letters make it all work.) The trade option was added early on to give players a way out when this kind of collection presents itself. I recently had NHFHHN TTT NZR, which doesn't go much of anywhere!

M Y Y Y E U O I Y J O I

Y oh Y oh Y!

S'okay, Looney, just having a moan. No sheep stations, as you know!

Just traded in the OI for an M, decided to take one of the few 5 letter words, JORUM, which left me with this:

Y Y Y E I Y I know that it's luck of the draw, and I'm really not ranting against the system, but thought it amusing to point out the frustration sometimes experienced (especially when the pundits are going ahead in leaps and bounds of 15-30 points at a time).

No hard feelings, Wiz. I'll leave the bribe just inside your cave entrance.

Try getting 12 good letters and coming up with 3 11 letter words being told they can't be used.And yes I have had the joy of getting nothing but vowels just the luck of the draw or is it ?

That is baffling at times, Blaster, and it has happened to me countless times. It's one of the hazards of the database, which sometimes accepts questionable spelling and does not accept many words that are in common use.

I don't know that anything can be done about it. I understand that several of the FT games rely on the same dictionary, which, though less than perfect, generally meets FT's criteria regarding accessibility, etc.