| Q | Can I change my password/username? |
| A | Not at present, but you can always delete your account by clicking on your profile and afterwards reinstate it with the new data. |
| Q | Will other languages/lexicons be added? |
| A | Hopefully someday. |
| Q | I want to play, but there's no one else online. |
| A | Play against a bot. Or start a club. The Woogles Anagrams Club meets Mondays at 8PM EDT. |
| Q | Can I play more than one game at a time? |
| A | At present gameplay is limited to one game per computer. |
| Q | Can I see who is watching a game? |
| A | That feature will be added soon. |
| Q | What about ratings? |
| A | That's still a work in progress. I'm hoping that some day we be able to implement something like an ELO rating system or maybe badges that a player can earn by playing rare words, etc. |
| Q | Can you give me more details about how the blank penalty works? |
| A | Blanks/wildcards are one of the more confusing aspects of the game, but they add a level of unpredictability and creative gameplay that would not otherwise be possible. Every time you use a blank, either by taking it from the pool and designating it or by changing it from an existing word you must take an additional P tiles from the pool where P is "blank penalty". For example, if the blank penalty is 2 and the minimum word length is 7, then in order to use a blank you would need to make at least a 10 letter word. You could do this two ways: either by taking 10 tiles directly from the pool or by taking an existing 7 letter word, adding one tile to it to make the steal, and then adding two more from the pool. Similarly the shortest playable word containing two blanks would have to be 13-letters in length. Moreover to change a blank you must take P tiles from the pool, so in the previous example example one could take the existing 10-letter word containing a blank, change the blank to something else, and add 2 tiles from the pool to make a 12-letter word. |
| Q | What about the robots? |
| A | There is a formula that calculates how often on average a robot will attempt to think of a word based on their skill level and the number of tiles in the pool. Also Genius bot knows all the words while Novice bot knows only common words found in the "Common English Lexicon", a subset of CSW21. (For more informaito non CEL, see here. Standard bot and and Expert bot will search in the larger wordlist 33% and 67% of the time respectively. |
| Q | Is there any way to record my games for posterity? |
| A | Yes! At the end of any game, click the Download button. .gif recaps are coming soon. |