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Sarah M think i was doing something wrong here, looking at others' scores! i didn't understand this at all :(

Elwin Carlos Spoilage is a variant where you have to find the longest word possible that uses all of the given letters. You can score quite big here simply by learning a handful of words that appear often in this variant. :)

Elwin Carlos Should have added - the word must have the letters in the order in which they're presented!

Tom Cappleman But not necessarily consecutively. So RELATIONS would be fine for e.g. RAN, it doesn't need to be something like RANKING or TYRANT. But it wouldn't be fine for RNA, as they don't appear in the right order

Tom Cappleman Though the actual right answer for RAN is PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS

Elwin Carlos Yep! (Does it count as cheating to have that copied to your device's clipboard by default when playing spoilage?! ...)

Matthew Tassier IMO yes.
1. Being able to correctly spell and type your declarations is part of apterous.
2. If this was allowed it is likely that some would extend this into clearer cheating actions.

Andres S. I definitely think there should be a quick Spoilage guide or just some tips because I definitely would like improve

Dave Kempshall Andres - I found that if you start by trying to memorise the 10 longest / most common words then they soon sink in and you can expand your list of words from there. Supercali... on it's own scored me over half my points (170) in my game in this tournament.

Andres S. All I know are the big three - SUPERCALI..., PNEUMONO..., and ANTIDIS...

Unfortunately that didn't help me that much but still satisfied with my score, where can I go to see the list of longer words?

Dave Kempshall I find it easiest to just head into people's games on pages like this one and note the big words that come up most frequently.