# Word of the Ring **URL:** \ **Category:** Games\ **Created:** [August 8, 2022, 4:46pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/word-of-the-ring/6297 "2022-08-08T16:46:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![SteveWhite](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@SteveWhite](https://community.goactuary.com/u/SteveWhite)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2022, 7:03pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/word-of-the-ring/6297/21 "2022-08-08T19:03:47Z")
> [@1695814](#): > > If you want to make it more difficult, you could get rid of the words on the side (1, 2, & 3) and just leave the rings…in this way, a person wouldn’t know where a word necessarily begins/ends… It would be far more difficult if you didn’t know where it started, but you can tell anyway. The first letter of the word has a small ring around it. ETA: Of course, for more of a challenge I did it without considering which was the first letter. That must be why my first score wasn’t higher than 1698514’s. ---
**Author:** ![1695814](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/1695814/32/38506_2.png) [@1695814](https://community.goactuary.com/u/1695814)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2022, 7:04pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/word-of-the-ring/6297/22 "2022-08-08T19:04:09Z")
Well, phooey. ---
**Author:** ![actmds](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/actmds/32/64989_2.png) [@actmds](https://community.goactuary.com/u/actmds)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2022, 7:09pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/word-of-the-ring/6297/23 "2022-08-08T19:09:10Z")
It does reveal all uses of a letter if they are used multiple times. I didn’t put that in the rules, but assuming the user will figure it out as it happens. ---
**Author:** ![actmds](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/actmds/32/64989_2.png) [@actmds](https://community.goactuary.com/u/actmds)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2022, 7:11pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/word-of-the-ring/6297/24 "2022-08-08T19:11:33Z")
I’ve been told that my games are too difficult for the non-actuarial user. That is why I added the letters in order on the side. Maybe making that as a game setting would be good for those that want it more challenging. ---
**Author:** ![SteveWhite](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@SteveWhite](https://community.goactuary.com/u/SteveWhite)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2022, 7:24pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/word-of-the-ring/6297/25 "2022-08-08T19:24:32Z")
> [@actmds](#): > > It does reveal all uses of a letter if they are used multiple times. I didn’t put that in the rules, but assuming the user will figure it out as it happens. Certainly they will if they see one twice. After my first 6 guesses (which were a word; I was in Wordle mode and didn’t even look at any result before that), I wanted to reuse a letter to make what looked like a promising word. Only I couldn’t reuse it. Which told me that word was not going to be right, but left me not knowing whether there could be double letters (which I didn’t need to know). But most likely my score matched that other guy’s only because he understood the double letter situation and I didn’t. ---
**Author:** ![SteveWhite](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@SteveWhite](https://community.goactuary.com/u/SteveWhite)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2022, 11:19pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/word-of-the-ring/6297/26 "2022-08-09T23:19:20Z")
Site is not too busy today. I’m currently #2 on the daily leaderboard with 130. Yes, I could have had 150 by taking another strike, then starting over on the same puzzle with no strikes. Not my style (though if I had missed by attempt with 4 strikes, maybe I would have started over. We’ll see if and when that happens.) Maybe that’s what happened with 1698514, despite his relatively strong showing yesterday. I can’t see his score on the leaderboard, so it’s under 60 today. 9 strikes, and a score of 30? Or 8 strikes and he’s tied with the 60 score, but it’s not showing him. (I suppose there are other possibilities, and not just 14 strikes). ---
**Author:** ![actmds](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/actmds/32/64989_2.png) [@actmds](https://community.goactuary.com/u/actmds)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2022, 11:28pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/word-of-the-ring/6297/27 "2022-08-09T23:28:51Z")
Also could be they haven’t updated yet and they are experiencing the couple of bugs on the stats page that people pointed out and I have fixed. There are not a lot of people playing yet as I have not started advertising it yet. Just relying on friends (including my fellow actuaries here) to work out the kinks before I start promoting it. Nothing like doing a full launch and receiving thousands of crash reports! ---
**Author:** ![SteveWhite](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@SteveWhite](https://community.goactuary.com/u/SteveWhite)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2022, 11:32pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/word-of-the-ring/6297/28 "2022-08-09T23:32:47Z")
No problem. It was mainly in jest, though it is true that all I see on the leaderboard is: 1-630 2-130 (me) 3-60 That 630 must include lots of random games. Maybe with no single game of 130 or more, and I’ve got the best individual game today. ---
**Author:** ![actmds](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/actmds/32/64989_2.png) [@actmds](https://community.goactuary.com/u/actmds)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 12:37am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/word-of-the-ring/6297/29 "2022-08-10T00:37:00Z")
I think your friend just one-upped you. ---
**Author:** ![SteveWhite](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@SteveWhite](https://community.goactuary.com/u/SteveWhite)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 12:44am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/word-of-the-ring/6297/30 "2022-08-10T00:44:44Z")
Yes, one-upped me based on the way you keep the leaderboard. I personally think a 130 in the daily game, and then two 30’s in random games (in who knows how many random games) is not as good as just a 130 in the regular game. ---
**Author:** ![actmds](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/actmds/32/64989_2.png) [@actmds](https://community.goactuary.com/u/actmds)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 1:10am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/word-of-the-ring/6297/31 "2022-08-10T01:10:52Z")
The daily game is meant to keep you coming back. However, the goal of the leaderboard is to get you to play more. Ultimately, I am looking to get the ad revenue which I will get more of once I turn on the in game banners. 🙂 I do agree that the single game average score can be an impressive stat and maybe another leaderboard! Btw, how do you know he/she didn’t get the 190 in 1 game.150 - 30 \* 2 + 100? ---
**Author:** ![Lucy](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/lucy/32/8802_2.png) [@Lucy](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Lucy)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 1:29am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/word-of-the-ring/6297/32 "2022-08-10T01:29:40Z")
Is this iOS only? Or am i just blind? ---
**Author:** ![SteveWhite](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@SteveWhite](https://community.goactuary.com/u/SteveWhite)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 1:32am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/word-of-the-ring/6297/33 "2022-08-10T01:32:34Z")
> [@actmds](#): > > Btw, how do you know he/she didn’t get the 190 in 1 game.150 - 30 \* 2 + 100? I think that’s surely what happened. But why would I include that as a possibility? ---
**Author:** ![actmds](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/actmds/32/64989_2.png) [@actmds](https://community.goactuary.com/u/actmds)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 1:32am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/word-of-the-ring/6297/34 "2022-08-10T01:32:54Z")
Unfortunately, IOS only. I do this as a hobby and since I have IOS devices, that is what I learned to program. I have played around with Android some, but one of my apps would have to really take off before I invested the time to learn Kotlin or Java. ---
**Author:** ![SteveWhite](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@SteveWhite](https://community.goactuary.com/u/SteveWhite)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 2:31pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/word-of-the-ring/6297/35 "2022-08-10T14:31:55Z")
:swear: I thought I was going to get a jump on 1698514 today. Then not looking so good. Strikes on the first 3 guesses, even though fairly common letters. 1 strike would not be that rare, 2 not impossible, but 3??? (What’s the Goldfinger line to Bond: one is bad luck, two is coincidence, three is enemy action). Then the game closed down and said there was an error loading the puzzle. Try again later. ETA: Per Google, “once is happenstance, twice is a coincidence, three is enemy action”. ---
**Author:** ![1695814](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/1695814/32/38506_2.png) [@1695814](https://community.goactuary.com/u/1695814)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 2:40pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/word-of-the-ring/6297/36 "2022-08-10T14:40:17Z")
Yeah, I actually did the daily puzzle first thing in the morning. It looks like I didn’t even get any points for it as I’m at a big fat zero for the day & can’t redo the “Today’s” puzzle. 🤷‍♂️ ---
**Author:** ![1695814](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/1695814/32/38506_2.png) [@1695814](https://community.goactuary.com/u/1695814)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 2:41pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/word-of-the-ring/6297/37 "2022-08-10T14:41:53Z")
Well, at least I got my 30 for the “Random” puzzle. :tup: ---
**Author:** ![SteveWhite](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@SteveWhite](https://community.goactuary.com/u/SteveWhite)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 2:42pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/word-of-the-ring/6297/38 "2022-08-10T14:42:36Z")
Leaderboard padding. :shake: ---
**Author:** ![actmds](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/actmds/32/64989_2.png) [@actmds](https://community.goactuary.com/u/actmds)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 2:54pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/word-of-the-ring/6297/39 "2022-08-10T14:54:47Z")
I think it might be because the app wasn’t updated. Mine worked fine, but my wife had the same issue and when I looked, she had the version before I had done some of the bug fixes that people here have pointed out. Now Steve mentioned a crash which is disturbing, but I don’t get crash reports until next day. My guess is I didn’t safely unwrap an optional somewhere in the process, but will never find it without the crash report. ---
**Author:** ![BruteForce](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/bruteforce/32/175_2.png) [@BruteForce](https://community.goactuary.com/u/BruteForce)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 2:55pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/word-of-the-ring/6297/40 "2022-08-10T14:55:33Z")
Just downloaded it. Man, you guys solve these daily puzzles with less than 5 wrong guesses? I’m on my second attempt and still haven’t gotten all 3 words (and I even watched an ad on the first try) 🤣 [Previous page](https://community.goactuary.com/t/word-of-the-ring/6297.md?page=1) [Next page](https://community.goactuary.com/t/word-of-the-ring/6297.md?page=3)