Word Pads

September 16, 2005 8:33 AM

Word Pads: A strangely addicting word finding game. Hop to it.
posted by caddis (34 comments total)

Why do I almost never see the word "addicting" without it being prefixed by "strangely" lately? Am I the only person who doesn't have a huge range of nuanced addictions?
posted by GuyZero at 8:40 AM on September 16, 2005

Plus the link is broken.
posted by GuyZero at 8:40 AM on September 16, 2005

That's what's strange about it.
posted by yhbc at 8:42 AM on September 16, 2005

I don't know, it loads for me for a second and then just throws a server error. Surely we could not have broken it THIS quickly...
posted by Emperor Yamamoto's Eggs at 8:42 AM on September 16, 2005

Best version of Service Unavailable I have ever played!
posted by newfers at 8:47 AM on September 16, 2005

My best score: 404
posted by papercake at 8:49 AM on September 16, 2005

I managed to find two words.
posted by fire&wings at 8:49 AM on September 16, 2005

Did we kill it?
posted by JanetLand at 8:54 AM on September 16, 2005

Try hitting reload; it is working fine for me.
posted by caddis at 8:56 AM on September 16, 2005

The page now loads but the game doesn't.
posted by fire&wings at 8:58 AM on September 16, 2005

Aaaaand it's broken again.
posted by grateful at 9:01 AM on September 16, 2005

I think we killed it. Sorry about that, but I must admit I had some fun with it this morning before the rest of you killed it.
posted by caddis at 9:04 AM on September 16, 2005

caddis writes 'before the rest of you killed it.'

Right, we killed it, not you by posting to it.
I accept full responsability for the errors which may have been commited by everybody else except me.
posted by signal at 9:07 AM on September 16, 2005

OK, I killed it.

There are things that one refrains from posting because they so obviously will go down once the crowd rushes in, but this did not look like that to me.

I killed it.

I repent.

[too bad because I was starting to get upwards of twenty words in a row before I reloaded it and pfffft. if you concentrate I am sure you can go far beyond twenty words]
posted by caddis at 9:14 AM on September 16, 2005

Being sorry doesn't get us our game back that we never had, you villain
posted by fleacircus at 9:15 AM on September 16, 2005

Why do I almost never see a question without it begin prefixed by "Am I the only person who" ?

Show some confidence in yourself man.
posted by spock at 9:16 AM on September 16, 2005

Am I the only person who thinks it should be "addictive"?
If it worked, that is.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 9:26 AM on September 16, 2005

w-gp: Get with the pogrom. The correct question is "Am I the only person who finds this strangely addictive?"
posted by ZenMasterThis at 9:30 AM on September 16, 2005

ZenMasterThis writes 'Get with the pogrom.'
¿Am I the only person who finds this strangely offensive?
posted by signal at 9:40 AM on September 16, 2005

uh... worst flash game ever!
posted by kingpixel at 9:42 AM on September 16, 2005

ZenMaster: "Strangely" only applies when it's "addicting".
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 9:47 AM on September 16, 2005

I thought 'Get with the pogrom' was a fairly clever pun. You may find onelook useful for discovering word meanings and origins.
posted by mleonard at 9:57 AM on September 16, 2005

It eventually loaded, but I didn't find it particularily worth the wait. It often left me with no vowels at all to work with. Similar to, but less entertaining than, Bookworm, I guess.
posted by jacquilynne at 10:15 AM on September 16, 2005

Dammit, you people stole all my jokes.
posted by Who_Am_I at 10:28 AM on September 16, 2005

How come nobody blithers but idiots anymore?
posted by StickyCarpet at 10:46 AM on September 16, 2005

Albert DeSalvo: "Am I the only one who finds this strangling addictive?"
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 11:06 AM on September 16, 2005

This thread was worth it if only for the comments "I managed to find two words" and "My best score:404". Good stuff. Thanks for the Friday laugh.
posted by genefinder at 11:15 AM on September 16, 2005

Doesnt seem to work for me. I can't hop from the lilypad to any letters. Anyone notice the same issue?
posted by Decypher at 11:19 AM on September 16, 2005

That seems to happen when the game has not fully loaded. Try hitting reload, although that will probably just kill the site again.
posted by caddis at 11:58 AM on September 16, 2005

MetaFilter: Getting With The Pogrom.
posted by Darkman at 12:53 PM on September 16, 2005

i got 63,465 points
posted by Satapher at 9:50 PM on September 16, 2005

Okay, but hard to take seriously a word game where "proper" is spelled wrong in the instructions (propper).
posted by whatzit at 3:12 PM on September 17, 2005

Am I the only person that finds this strangely really boring? Also, since when is 'hoon' not a real word?
posted by The Monkey at 10:05 PM on September 17, 2005

that rocked. well, actually it didn't.
posted by sharpener at 2:30 PM on September 18, 2005