That's because the word DIE is a metal word, which the Wolf Man is weak to. Not only does the weakness increase the damage, but the Hand of Hercules' bonus for metal words stacks multiplicatively with the weakness bonus, resulting in crazy damage.

Glad you enjoyed it! :) I literally had the same reaction upon watching my first BWA speedrun as well

@@trevabc2405 this is impressive, is there any rng or does one play though set up the words u use. Or do you have to think quickly of words, either way it’s impressive

@@We_silly all tile drops are RNG, there's no guaranteed manipulation, it's just thinking quickly with a bunch of practice

I have the link

thanks :)

You could even say that the speed was ASTONISHING

LolI thought it was "PLEASE" at the first time I saw your comment

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I do some the speed thing but I only did it with 3 - 5 words but this guy did more then 3 - 5 words. Not to mention that you need to look at the letters you need for the word and we know how long that will take us to get a big word.

thank you! big part of my childhood too

The easiest (not crazy expensive) way to get the game now is probably to use the link on speedrun.com/bookworm_adventures in the resources tab. Keep in mind it's a "download-at-your-own-risk" type of deal, but in the year I've been a mod for the community, I haven't heard of any instances of malware other than your computer issuing you a warning. :)

can I download on Mac?

@@nathrobert8318 the game is sadly not available on mac as far as i know

I got a good chuckle out of that one

We don't quite know for sure actually. The non-English versions of the game are very very broken, but none of the runners are proficient enough in any of the alternate languages (German, French, or Spanish) to exploit them effectively. German and French have some stupidly powerful extensions to words, which could mean that these versions are better for speedrunning if you're good enough at those languages.

@@chaoskiller6084 I could try my hand at speedrunning it in German. Problem is I don't know where i could get the game in either language.

WAIT YOU MEAN TO TELL ME THERE IS A COMMUNITY OF BOOKWORM ADVENTURE FANS? Sign me up!@@chaoskiller6084

It can't, because it's abandonware. However, this means it's FREE!

this is all vanilla, menu skipping is done by quitting to menu after the gravestone appears but before the cutscene starts, and the overkill animation can be disabled in options

It's called a Menu Skip and is the single biggest timesave in the run other than playing well. If you quit out to the menu and re-enter the chapter before any dialogue or cutscenes, it skips them entirely - this means all boss intro cutscenes, treasure animations, chapter select story dialogue, and some stuff mid-chapter can all be skipped. It saves over 5 minutes throughout the course of the run, probably even more, I forget the exact amount :)

TL;DR everything is random except for like 4 words. The first chapter forces you to spell PLAY, and JAUNTED is always my second word (it appears consistently). The second chapter's starting rack is set as well, my preference is always PANZERS into FUSTIAN (saving a Y to hopefully one-shot the super tanky third enemy). 1-4 forces you to scramble and 2-4 also usually attempts to give you the riddle answers but other than that everything is random :)

did did you leave a fanfic genshin crossover boss list for bookworm adventures….

Yeah that one mystery game

one of the minigames in this game is almost identical to Wordle lmao

@@trevabc2405 guess it hooked you too huh

Yep! I menu skip to skip boss intro animations, almost all dialogue, treasure cutscenes, and post-chapter map dialogue. It saves a TON of time over the course of the run.

no, just years of running the game

I bought the game years ago on Steam, but PopCap basically took all downloads everywhere down. The easiest (not crazy expensive) way to get the game now is probably to use the link on speedrun.com/bookworm_adventures in the resources tab. Keep in mind it's a "download-at-your-own-risk" type of deal, but in the year I've been a mod for the community, I haven't heard of any instances of malware other than your computer issuing you a warning. :)

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@@trevabc2405 for some reason tho it’s super stretched when I turn it off

@@marekisjustpoppinby2421 maybe it's a fullscreen thing? idk about you but i play on windowed

i don't i just set OBS to pick up the game it's quite small on the actual screen

my first run was a 1:49:49! it just takes practice B)

world record is 40:40, and this is far from my current pb (featured here kzfaq.info/get/bejne/feCSjLub2JazqZs.html)

hi

Wish there was mobile version I mean popcap is with ea Oh wait Paywalls

15:45 pioneer

35:16 correlates

bunch of practice, have been running this game for about a year and a half

@@trevabc2405 would you give me an example?

@@sadd_st4323 of finding words fast? i just look for a lot of the stuff i've trained myself to find. words that end in ATE (aviate, obviate, bloviate, mediate, moderate, modulate, venerate, etc.) are very common and easy to see for me. making adjectives longer using IER or IEST (happiest) can get you 8- or 9- letter words pretty consistently if you practice. i have a couple other tactics but those are some big ones :)

@@trevabc2405 tysm! this helped me alot

No, it saves time by skipping boss battle cutscenes and dialogues.

@@melodictom777 thank you

The easiest (not crazy expensive) way to get the game now is probably to use the link on speedrun.com/bookworm_adventures in the resources tab. Keep in mind it's a "download-at-your-own-risk" type of deal, but in the year I've been a mod for the community, I haven't heard of any instances of malware other than your computer issuing you a warning. :)