Fine-tuning to Reduce Tiny Games

I don't know about you but for me, very small games are less enjoyable. When the total possible score of a game is something like 55, the number of words suffers -- there may be only a handful of words and after two the game gets tedious.

Likewise, games that are too big get tedious, for the opposite reason -- the sheer quantity of words.

During the game changeover, the new game is randomly generated with an upper and a lower limit, which was set to 55 and 165 for the last couple of years at least.

I've changed the low bound to 70. Let's see how that works.

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May 02 · 5 days ago · 👍 smallpatatas

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🐐 drh3xx · May 02 at 14:40:

I quite like the challenge of the smaller games. Hopefully 70pts won't be too rare. I tend to prefer 140pts and under otherwise there are so many possible words I struggle to find the time to complete the game. Not sure how other peoples preferred ceiling on points would compare.