After 2-3 weeks of not working on anything, I finally got the gumption to make the much needed changes to the game.
The problem was now within the words themselves. The double consonants seem to have the opposite effect they were designed for. All words now have absolutely NO repeating LETTERS. I capitalize this because vowels are no longer doubled either. The only thing separating points are word length and use of vowels. I had to kick out about 20 words from my game which didn't follow the rules.
In a 4 player game, I've also reduced the number of Wild Tiles to 2. This was decided by the store gaming group. The other choice was leaving the Wild Tile count at 3 but restrict the use of Wild Tiles in a word to 1. I think having less Wild Tiles will slow the game down while finding 1 of 3 tiles gives better odds of finishing w/o overpowering a person who is lucky enough to find more. I'D REALLY LIKE AN OPINION ON THIS.
I played 3/14/11. I lost even when I ended both 1st and 2nd rounds. I took all medium on the 2nd round and all easy for the third to finish the game quickly but couldn't find what I needed. Lost by 4 points.
