Talk:Word Up (video game)

I'm not disputing it, but I find it very hard to believe that you can play Word Up in 40% of British pubs! Peter Harriman 06:59, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

I don't know where the factoid came from - but based on a straw poll in my mind I would say it is probably true. It depends the character of the pubs visited - the percentage is probably higher for the type of pubs that quite a lot of people visit, but probably lower for other 'types' of pubs that other folks might visit - so it might even out! SFC9394 11:38, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Move?

I think a better location for this article would be Word Up (game) as SWP is jargon which the general reader will not be familiar with, and certainly isn't an intuitive search term. Oldelpaso 09:32, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

I am also finding it hard to believe it would be installed in games machines in 40% of pubs in the uk. There needs to be a clear citation for a fact to be stated like that. 40% means more than 1 out of three. i go to six pubs around my home town and i have only seen the game on one machine.

Pinster2001

nintendo ds homebrew version?

http://www.superpanic.com/wordup_download.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.68.125.211 (talk) 00:19, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Software has Limited scope to "offer a game in which the player has no chance of success"

Surely this is rubbish. It would take one line of code to program.

e.g. if desired payout = £0 then £1 target = 3000 points 82.35.59.204 06:36, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Merge into Itbox

Someone has for some reason suggested this should be merged with the Itbox article. The main reason this should not be done is that Itbox is only one of several games machines which carry Word Up. He also claims that this game is not "notable" enough for its own article. Given that it is a game played in more pubs than dominos, darts or pool and that the combined prize money for the recent tournament was greater than that given to the winner of the Scottish Third Division, it hardly lacks notability. 86.155.52.207 18:08, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

question about scoring

I've never played Word Up so I don't know the rules. But isn't ACQUITTED worth more than DIACRITICS in the sample shot shown?--Mike Selinker 16:49, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

I don't believe so. ACQUITTED has 9 letters, so you total the value of all the letters and multiply by 9. e.g. ( 1 + 3 + 10 + 2 + 3 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 2 ) * 9 = 216

DIACRITICS has 10:

( 2 + 3 + 1 + 3 + 2 + 3 + 1 + 3 + 3 + 1 ) * 10 = 220

helped by the fact that for some reason an I is worth 3 pts

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