Friday, September 16, 2011

Words With Friends Accomplishments

I've been playing a lot of Words With Friends on Facebook and Android lately. Its been driving me crazy lately that they've added 39 accomplishments but haven't provided anyway to see all the accomplishments you've gotten or which remain. Here are some of the ones I've found so far.

I also looked around the zynga servers and found a bunch of badges that aren't officially available. Check them all out below. To be clear - I haven't earned all of these badges. Just 29 of them. I haven't had a 600 point game or a 300 point word.

So there are three big questions that remain:

1: This is already more than 39 (41 to be exact!). What accomplishments are left? And which of these are official
I assume a lot are point based. A few more milestones could easily fit in there. I'm surprised they have 600 point solo game, but don't have anything higher than 650 point combined game.

2: Which badges when?
It is also unclear where badges point limits cap out. For instance, I've definitely had combined point games over 650, in fact, a few were over 850 - but those badges never showed up.

3: Cross Platform accomplishments?
I play on Facebook and Android. Android doesn't give me an alert when I unlock an accomplishment, but Facebook does. I played a 100 pointer the other day on my Android, but when I logged onto Facebook I didn't have a new badge. What gives? Those don't come along every day!

Any ideas?


Accomplishment Badge Description
Score 20 points in a turn
Score 30 points in a turn
Score 40 points in a turn
Score 50 points in a turn
Score 60 points in a turn
Score 70 points in a turn
Score 80 points in a turn
Score 90 points in a turn
Score 100 points in a turn
Score 150 points in a turn
Score 200 points in a turn
Score 90 points in a turn
Score 300 points in a turn
Combine with your partner to score a cumulative total of 300 points in a game
Combine with your partner to score a cumulative total of 350 points in a game
Combine with your partner to score a cumulative total of 400 points in a game
Combine with your partner to score a cumulative total of 450 points in a game
Combine with your partner to score a cumulative total of 500 points in a game
Combine with your partner to score a cumulative total of 550 points in a game
Combine with your partner to score a cumulative total of 600 points in a game
Combine with your partner to score a cumulative total of 650 points in a game
Finish a game with at least 350 points
Finish a game with at least 400 points
Finish a game with at least 450 points
Finish a game with at least 500 points
Finish a game with at least 450 points
Finish a game with at least 450 points
Use all seven letter tiles in a single turn
Unstoppable! Pass your opponent during a single turn
Attack of the Tiles! Score points by using a Triple Letter space
Score points by using a Double Word space
Twice is Nice! Score points by using two Double Word space
Triple Threat! Score points by using a Triple Word space
Triple Triple! Score points playing across two Triple Letters and one Triple Word Space
Twice is no Mistake: Defeat the same opponent twice.
Defeat the same opponent three times.
Dominated! Defeat the same opponent four times.
Defeat the same opponent five times.
Superstar! Win 10 games.
Win 15 games.
Win 20 games.


Wednesday, March 9, 2011

One Last Great Example of Chinglish

I just realized it has been a long time since I wrote a post. In case you haven't been following my narrative here, this blog was originally intended to document a few month stay in Beijing. But, as you can see from the archive on the side of the page, its grown a bit. Now, after over two years, Veronica and I are leaving Beijing, heading back to the US.

When I have some additional downtime, I plan to share a lot of additional picture and leave this site up as a scrapbook of experiences, advice and bad jokes.

So before I do that, I want to share one of the best examples of Chinglish I've seen. This one falls into the category of "mistranscribed letters".

I believe the intended text was:
"Sweet Cali - Gumballs, Juicy Flavors - Whoa"

Needless to say, that alone would have been pretty awesome. However, the creator of this shirt made it even better and have given the world the following, behold:
"Sweet Cali - Cumballs, Juicy Flavorsh - Whoau"



I imagine the "Juicy Flavorsh" line spoken with a minor speech impediment and the "whoau" exclaimed like Joey Lawrence on Blossem.