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Oh wow wait another? It took me so long to gather up my thoughts on Saturday Edition I've already beaten another game! Or three...

Currently Playing: Word Trip

What Is It? Basically Word Ladder but with a hot new twist. Have you ever played Word Ladder on Sporcle? They have them daily so go check it out if you want and you'll get like 75% of the experience here.

Gameplay Overview: You are given a word and you need to make it into a new word using one or more steps. The only rule is you have to take three letters from your first word and one of the goal word to make a new word. So if your starting word is FART and your goal word is BUTT, you could use the ART from your word and the B from the goal to bake BRAT. Then take the BRT from BRAT and the U from BUTT to make BRUT, and then finally you can make BUTT. You get points each time you get to your goal word, at which point you get a new goal word and you keep going as long as you can. You are on a timer and each new word you make (even if it isn't the final goal word) gives you more time. Keep going and climb the leaderboards.

Here's The Game Page! https://play.date/games/word-trip/

Here's Some Pictures!
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Thoughts:
-That last one was so good I feel like I should sprinkle in something less good. Dont want to get all the good ones done in a row! So time to see what the catalogue has to offer me this time.
-Ive bought like thirty games when they were on sale so there are a ton of unopened presents on my menu screen. I pick one at random and getWord Trip! Its a word puzzle game. Couldve been worse because I bought some weird stuff.
-Welcome to Word Trip! The goal of the game is to get from the top word to the bottom one by making new four letter words. You can only change one letter at a time. Its a classic puzzle type but I cant remember what its name is.
-Oh ok this is a little different. Theres a little fuel gauge on the side, and you need to get to the bottom word before time runs out. You can refuel at a pit stop if youre running low and earn extra pit stops every eight word puzzles you finish.
-Oh no I think I like this one too.
-I was honestly hoping for a bad game to follow up Saturday Edition. I don't want to accidentally play all the good games and get stuck with random garbage and calculator apps at the end.
-This is pretty solid though. Like, ok, so it is a simple word puzzle game. There's a ceiling here. But it is pretty fun in short doses and I keep coming back for another run or two after thinking "eh I should call it a night".
-I might be too dumb to be great at this game. A lot of times I'll get stuck and time runs out and the game is like "why didn't you use this word?" and I'm like "well I didn't know that was a word or I would've!" Like, what the hell is FLAM? No one told me about FLAM? Like flimflam?
-I google it and flam is "one of the basic patterns of drumming, consisting of a stroke preceded by a grace note". Ohhhh of fucking course. How did I not think of flam? I can't wait to use flam in my day to day life now. I'll be listening to a song with my wife and I'll go "wow did you hear that flam?" and she'll go "what is flam" and I'll go "one of the basic patterns of drumming, consisting of a stroke receded by a grace note" and she'll go "I want a divorce."
-Oooh AMOK that's a cool word.
-Some of these linking words are absolutely wild and I can't tell if they are intentionally programmed to be partnered up like this or just random.
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-That would've been so much more fun if I was doing METH FIRE instead of FIRE METH.
-Welp right after that I found a new favorite.
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-AIDS BABY? HOLY SHIT WORD TRIP YOU CAN'T JUST SAY THAT
-I did a double take when AIDS BABY appeared on my word puzzle game. Didn't think Word Trip would just drop an AIDS BABY in my lap and walk away.
-Ok serious complaint here though: it is way too easy to cheat the leaderboards.
-I play this for a while and get really good and get really lucky with some easy chains on hard, and I finish with a score of 56 on hard. 56 is good for second place overall, alltime. First place is...hm...let me check this quickly 155 by uncletrunks
-Uncletrunks is either a super computer built to chase high scores on weird indie game system no one plays, or a no good cheater.
-After being confused as to how the hell first place was 100 points ahead of me in second place, I was like "can you cheat in this game?" and pretty easily found a way to do so! You can pause your game at any time, solve the puzzle, then unpause and put the answer in quickly. There is nothing stopping you from doing this as there is no punishment associated with pausing. The landing page for Word Trip links you to a puzzle solver for any two words you put in. Why? WHY ARE YOU TEMPTING PEOPLE TO CHEAT, WORD TRIP?
-I mean, you can just play without cheating if you aren't a jerk, of course, but half the fun here is chasing the top scores on the leaderboard and that is a lot less fun when it is so easy to cheat and the top scores are almost certainly doing so.
-Also the word bank here is smaller than I thought. I keep getting the same target words. So part of this is fast reaction word puzzle solving and part of it is "oh yeah PARA is the word I couldn't think of for this one last time, guess I'll put it in."
-That being said though, this is pretty solid. I enjoyed this and played it longer than I was planning to. I'd probably isn't quite Hyper Meteor level of score chasing fun, but like just a bit below that.

Time Played: I'd say likely four hours or so. A whole bunch of runs, but all the runs are pretty quick. No clue what the overall playtime was but I'd say four hours is a safe guess.
High Score: Easy: 120, Medium: 75, Hard: 56
Beaten? Sure. A whole bunch of times.
Grade: I would say this is pretty safely a 6. Kind of a "eh, it was pretty good!" kind of game.
Favorite Part So Far: AIDS BABY