WordSearch - first entry!

The first results posting is here! We've been playing games in the club for a while now, but we hadn't been recording the results. We kicked ideas around for a while, and have landed here. We'll see how it works.

The first game from Monday, November 21, 2005 was WordSearch, we ended up with 3 players.
It started with just Jake and Chris, but we flagged down Manny, and roped him into the game right after we had each gone once, making it a perfect time to sneak in a third player. We explained the game quickly to Manny, who'd never played it before, and he caught on quickly.

WordSearch is a game that's been around for a while. It's sort of like Scrabble turned on its head. The letter tiles get randomly placed on the board, and on your turn you attempt to form a word by sliding the tiles in a straight line so they end up making a word. That word gets scored, and removed from the board -- it leaves less tiles to choose from, but more room to move the remaining tiles. To score, just add up the value of the tiles and multiply by the number of letters in the word. So, longer words can increase in value quickly.

The game is paced well -- the beginning has few moves, so it starts out slow and challenging. When there is an equal amount of letters and space, letters fly furiously all over the place. The possibilities for big words are quite likely here. Then, the game comes to a slow halt as you run out of letters.

Here's the result!

WordSearch scores
Chris	205
Jake	136
Manny	108

Chris had the highest scoring play, "WRECK", worth 45 points.