There's an easy solution to making word games balanced and fun to everyone: artificial languages!

Bring on Klingon Scrabble!

Bwild: "I imagine the alphabets are quite different also.... what would be the French equivilant of "q"?"

I'm pretty sure English and French have the same alphabet, though of course some letters are more used in one language than the other.

I know it's possible. I saw the Coneheads play it on SNL. :)

Bwild: K, W, X, Y and Z are all worth 10 points in the French version of Scrabble. And I don't think it's possible to play Scrabble in Japanese. :)

Lets face it folks,multilingual word games are non starter!

I imagine the alphabets are quite different also.... what would be the French equivilant of "q"?, or even Japanese?

coan.net: It's not only the dictionary that is different in the various languages, it's also the distribution of the letters and the value in points of each. I think the only common thing for all languages is the board layout, but I can be wrong here.

Bernice: I also would think it would be difficult because of the different languages.

But if you have free available dictionaries for different languages (like I know there is for English), I would guess the simplest solution (if they were to make a word game here.) would to be make different games for each language. (Like English Word game, Czech word game, Spanish word game, etc...) - That way if a tournament is made for "word game", you don't accidentally get an English only player (like myself) matched up with someone who can't read English.

Some-what good news for those who would like word games is that I could have sworn that A LONG TIME AGO (years), Fencer was very interested in making a type of word game for the site... and I thought was working on it at one time. Maybe he decided against it... or maybe just got sucked into other projects and the word game had been put to the side... or then again, maybe I'm just imaging it.

h657: yes and I can understand that also...I wasn't thinking of language differences..

Bernice: I would disagree due to many languages. Not worth the hassle to make on this gamesite, since alot don't speak well in English. It would cause such unfair BKR and so forth.

Babe68: I also love them.....it isnt hard....just change the name and make sure the double/trebles etc are in different places...the hardest part is the dictionary I would think. The one that GoldToken uses isnt complete so many many words aren't available...but I still love playing word games :)

How come BK doesn't have any type of word games like "scrabble"?

Is there any chance of that in the future?

Just curious :)

Fencer: Yes, thanks, I realized that after I posted.

alanback: "Started Games" section is not visible on your own Profile page because it would simply duplicate the Main Page content.

kmf: I may be mistaken about my last post. I just checked and I don't have a link for "Started Games" when I view my own profile.

Here is a link to the only game you have running -- you may need to cut and paste this into your browser

"http://brainking.com/en/ShowGame?g=4611988"

kmf: You should see a list of your active games when you log in. If not, you may have to change some of your Settings. If you just want to see the list, click on your own name and then on "Started games"

this is kmf and i wanted to know if u could please help me on how to find my games and what do i press?thx.let me know please. kmf.

Fencer: ok, thx. fencer

ellieoop: I said that it would be done in BrainKing 3.0. When it is finished and released. The job is about 70% done and there is still much work to do.

a few weeks ago fencer said that he was going to change days off to sat. and sun. the calendar for me still has mon, and tues off. i see that my games for the weekend have extended time to make a move. i don't remember it always being like that, has that change started or has it always been like this?

AbigailII: i used paypal last month to renew my subscription .. it works fine

AbigailII:

DeaD man WalkiN: Well you can now use paypal again at brainking. Or that's how I interpreted Fencer's last message in this thread http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=1&plla=1048140

AbigailII: SORRY to see U leave. Know how U feel cause I only have a PP account and don't know what to do myself...

AbigailII: What about AlertPay?

Tomorrow, my rook status runs out. I've given up on trying to pay via either Moneybookers or Paypal. The former has happily taken my money, but since then tells me my account is locked due to lack of funds. The latter happily takes either a CC number or a bank account number, and while I've been able to pay with them for quite some time, for some unspecified reason, they now no longer the bank, nor the credit card.

So, this is the end of 5 years of BK for me. I do not wish to continue as a pawn.

pedestrian: it was introduced to stop ppl creating thousands of games just before he went to pawn
at one time there was nearly 6000 games in the waiting area

It seems you can only have a maximum of 50 games on the "waiting games" list at a time. I guess it's fine to have an upper limit, but shouldn't it be stated somewhere, for instance in the membership conditions? If it is, I can't find it.

Moreover, when I try to create waiting game no. 51, I get the usual message:

"New game has been successfully created."

even though the game wasn't created.

Thanks Fencer.....the rich text editor is working now

Pedro Martínez: Hello, Thanks for answer, I 'll ask to my opponent.

To add a third reason of my own:

3) We have PMs and discussion boards for talking to people, but when playing I don’t want to waste time thinking up a reply to the random messages my opponent is sending, especially when there are other games waiting where it’s my turn.

Pedro Martínez: Why? I can give you two reasons: 1) not having messages means people can't say something to me, and then get all worked up because I don't reply. 2) it reduces the distance between the board and the submit button, which reduces scrolling.

I'm having trouble with my "rich text editor"...it's not showing a chat area.

I've been having troubles with that also.....switch your text editor

Zort: They probably have the messages disabled. Some people do that here. Why, that's beyond me.

Hello, how to appear message board under chessboard?
I can only see the messages of my chess partner, but no board to write... Thanks for your help.

coan.net: ah ha.....you know to whom I am referring ROFLMBO, and of course you are correct.....(AGAIN) LOL

Bernice: It is working fine.

The other day (when I posted) it was at 13. On Monday, it was at 12 (which is what you seen.)

As of 1 hour, 31 minutes ago (The start of Tuesday according to Server time) - their vacation days are now at 11 since it already timed out on a game.

Bernice: And when you say they timed out, I assume you mean they ran out of time, but that they did not time out.

Bernice: I think if they have selected a day as vacation it comes off of the total when they set it, this then wouldn't alter there total. You could try setting a day in the future yourself and see what happens to your total and then cancel it. Just a thought

alanback: Vacation days left: 12 - using the automatic vacation

Bernice: Didn't have auto vac turned on?

I have watched someone time out this morning and their "holidays" didn't change.....they started with 12 days and they still have 12 days, being as it is Tuesday their weekend is Sat and SUn, can someone please explain.

I hope that is not true.... the current vacation system works the best for me....and the major reason I am a black rook...

coan.net:

Artful Dodger: On BrainKing, as soon as you set a vacation day, a day is subtracted from your total.

Any time BEFORE 12:01am (Server time I believe) you can remove the vacation day and the day will be added back to your total.

And I believe you have BK3 correct - or at least how I would think it would work.

coan.net: So when do the vacation days begin to drop off? Say I have vac days set (say 5 days) are they all deducted at once or is there a time frame where one can remove one or two days before you get to those days? (hope that makes sense)

And if I remember correctly, auto vacation is all we'll have with Brainking 3 and in fact is all we need to use as it will do the same thing only automatically. Right?

Roberto Silva: Yes, it does look like they had vacation days set - if you look now, you can see tomorrow (7th) also set for a vacation day already (so they were probable planning on having these day off - so they are already deducted from the vacation # total)

The 8th & 9th are part of their weekend, so Monday the 10th if they are not back their vacation # should start to drop again.

Artful Dodger: Maybe he manually set those days? Or is in a "weekend"?

Are we having a glitch where vacation days aren't being used up? I have an opponent timing out (for several days now) and is on auto vac. But the available days for vacs doesn't change. ;)