Talk:Upwords

Image request
Does someone have a picture of a finished Upwords game's board? I'd look on Google Images for one but I doubt the U.S./Cdn. gov't and Wikipedia's copyright rules allow me to copy it even as "fair use". --Unforgettableid 02:15, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
 * You should list this on the image request page.WAvegetarian 02:23, 31 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Done, thanks for the handy link --Unforgettableid 02:32, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Expansion
There is a very good description and run down of rules at. This should be integrated into the article. Yes, I know sofixit. If someone else gets to it first, that would be great too. --WAvegetarian 15:48, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Anti-Scrabble Bias
I removed the references to things like triple word scores and double letter scores being "tedious" because that is very subjective. I changed it to simply saying that those things require additional calculations, which is objective and true. There is no Scrabble vs Upwords war, there is no reason to make it sound like there is. 69.123.13.152 (talk) 02:51, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

I also clarified the "s" rule... you ARE allowed to put an "s" at the end of a word to pluralize it, but that cannot be ALL that you do. If that "s" is part of a different word you place on the board, doing so is perfectly within the rules. 69.123.13.152 (talk) 02:58, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

I always thought it was quite legitimate, both in Scrabble and in Upwords, to play a single "s" to make a word plural (there is nothing against this in the U.K. version of the rules). ACEOREVIVED (talk) 23:35, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

Is this game like Scrabble?
Is this game really like Scrabble? I hardly think so! You do not get points for individual tiles according to letter frequency - except the V, the X, the J, the Z and the Q, all of which will give you an extra two points. Even getting two extra for the V (which gets you four points in Scrabble) can be described as an anti-Scrabble touch in the game.ACEOREVIVED (talk) 15:35, 13 July 2011 (UTC) Also, there is only one V in the game, but there are two Vs in Scrabble. Vorbee (talk) 07:35, 19 July 2019 (UTC)

Date of Patent
The Google snippet view of the patent is here. The year is 1983. --Lmstearn (talk) 13:36, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

What Do the 64 Tiles Spell?
In a fortune file from the old Usenet there was this: The 64 tiles can be put together to spell: "The Paradox Poem: Political vows beget frenzy, Human minds quickly subjugated." --Lmstearn (talk) 13:44, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

COI tag (July 2022)
Significant contributions by User:Erudell. Ploni (talk) 00:10, 17 July 2022 (UTC)


 * I've edited out a lot of the egregiously advertorial content, and added a Conflict of Interest warning on Erudel's talk page: the similarity between their user name and that of the game's inventor Elliot Rudell, alongside the fact that their edits are almost exclusively in relation to this article, are fairly compelling. ~dom Kaos~ (talk) 17:58, 5 September 2023 (UTC)