2210241

On my first HIDDEN game today I hit a new personal best score of 17705 points, including 46 completed words, all in 14 minutes. This is coming a year and a month after the last best points score, and got me my 699^th Fox Rainbow badge and 250 Rewardicals.

No TCredit was spent during the game. I used 49 clues, including 10 banked clues and 9 won during play from red fox sightings. Of the 49 words completed, none were new words, as has been the case for months. The HIDDEN game features in our Gerian Assistant software contributed to this result. It keeps records of clues and their words, so that during a new game when you type in a clue it would bring up the word.

The 250 Rewardicals earned meant sighting two white foxes during the game. The first was on the 6^th word, while the second came on the 35^th word, while I was using the banked clues. This was one of the few occasions when the extra banked clues made a big difference. In addition, there was also a third white fox on the 37^th word that contributed another 2,000 points; without it I won’t be making this post.

So far this year, HIDDEN has been first on my sources of Rewardicals, contributing 31%. In 2021 it was second at 24%, next to Zingo.