I haven’t said anything about how to find words - this is an issue common to all of these words games, most notably Boggle. By making a short word that removes a letter or two that is in the way, you can sometimes connect the word and use it in your next turn to clear out a critical column. Rather than taking a chance with getting good letters in your next row, you can sometimes find a word which is almost connected, but not quite. Sometimes you just can’t find any word, and you are close to death. There is one more special technique that is handy when you really need it. Even more important: save up the short J, X, Q, and Z words, because they are really helpful in a jam. Save the short ones for emergencies and to help cut down pesky little towers or accumulations of black spaces before they get out of control. So again, if you can’t find a long word, it is usually better to add a row of letters than to make a 3 or 4 letter word. If you quickly use up many of the three letter words, you won’t have those words left to help you when they are the only way to save you from death. Yet another advantage is that you save the short, common words for an emergency. You also avoid selectively removing the letters with no nasty little 6’s in the corners, creating a board in which most of the remaining letters do have these nasty 6’s. The obvious advantage is that you clear more letters, since five (or more) letter words clear all adjoining squares. The next principle is to make long words rather than short ones. Then examine the effect it will have on your shape before you hit the last letter a second time to enter the word. Always enter the letters one by one until the board displays exactly which letters will be removed. If you can’t find any, just add another row until you can. So always look first for words that use letters in the extreme side columns. The reason for this is simple: the side rows are the hardest to clear because there are fewer possible words to make when you can connect to letters on just one side. Instead, try to cultivate a shape in which the board is even, or better yet, shaped like an upside down U where the middle columns are higher than the sides. There is no problem in letting several turns go by without making any words at all - that just gives you a bigger collection of letters and more choices.Īpproaching one million pointsThe main strategic principle is to avoid developing towers on the sides of the board. Don’t play too fast, and don’t feel that you have to enter a word just because you found it. The key to getting a high score is patience. How I Scored A Million Points In SpellTower Some of it may seem obvious, and some of it you may not have considered, but here it is in full, explained in his own words in this blog’s very first Guest Post: So I asked Jerry if he would share his strategy. On Jerry’s behalf, I bragged to SpellTower creator Zach Gage via Twitter. (His score won’t show up in Game Center until he ends the game). He’s confident he can keep playing as long as he wants. He has passed 1,000,000 points, adding about 20,000 points a day. The other day he told me that he’s been playing the same continuous game for over a month now and has obliterated his own high score. Like most people who play the game once, he was hooked, so he bought SpellTower for his own iPad. He still has the high score on the leader board with 167,275 points. By the time I took my iPad back at the end of the trip, he had already broken the SpellTower “Puzzle Mode” record on the Game Center leader board by almost 100,000 points (and shattered my high score of 17,876 which I thought was pretty good). The game combines elements of Boggle and Tetris, and I thought he would enjoy it. Over the holidays, I showed him SpellTower on my iPad.
At family gatherings, he wins practically every game of Scrabble, Boggle, Bridge, you name it. He says he dabbles in games and puzzles “occasionally for relaxation,” but that understates his skill. He’s a retired economist for the FTC with a passion for music and a life-long interest in math and science. SpellTower Champ JerryMy father-in-law Jerry is great at word puzzles.
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