The offer of bonus bombs every round started a few weeks ago, and I ignored it at first because I thought there would be ads every time, but nope! When I do the best it's because I pause in late rounds if I don't immediately have a word. Getting back to the bombs, maybe it has something to do with how you access the game? I get it via my Washington Post subscription. unless they're pausing long enough to work it out on paper. As for those folks up in the 100k+ region, I have no idea. But I'm doing a lot better, scoring between 30 and 50K pretty often. Time for clearing enough lines is what I run out of, because I lack discipline and keep trying to make words - then I panic and don't get the bombs out fast or accurately enough. As for using the bombs, I've only run out a couple of times. I'm being offered 2 bonus bombs per round in addition to whatever I "earn." And they say you have to watch an ad, but usually there is no ad! If you do see an ad, the game resumes immediately when it ends. So now I just play without paying attention to the scores which are, quite honestly, rigged against the players on the AARP site.ĪARP should make it clear that that is how Word Wipe works, but I'm sure they want to keep the players on the AARP site instead of losing them to WaPo. I racked up tons of points, but it seemed so pointless to play it that way. Raching up points that way was simply not challenging at all. I was so bored before I got to the end that I quit the game. I collected 22 bombs, and by that time, the game just became about bombing your way off levels. I played on WaPo just to see how it worked. WaPo allows you to literally keep collecting bombs by agreeing to watch ads.
(Although I think the scores are actually from Arkadia) They are not playing the same game, imo, and it is wrong for AARP to include those scores. The insanely high scores are because players who play the game on the Washington Post website are somehow mixed in with those playing it via AARP site even though the WaPo players are playing a game in which they can collect unlimited numbers of bombs.