Just out of the curiosity, and why?

I just want to bring my old memories back.

OK. I am posting here for help as I have not found help anywhere else. My wife has this game on her account. She has been able to play ith with no problem until recently. Whenever the game starts it sits at: "please wait unpacking sounds" It does not do anything, it sits there. The sounds are playing but it does not go beyond that. She is running Win 7 64 bit, and as I stated NOTHING has changed on her system. I have uninstalled/reinstalled the game, verified game cache, disable sounds, set compatibility...

I'd really like to make the definition list show the really weird words the game will accept, but the word list itself is encrypted so you can't see what words ARE accepted in order to try to expand the definition list yourself. However, I have found someone who blogged about how to add words to the word list: Original entry Basically, find the word list (in the Bookworm install directory in your steam folder), back it up, then add words to the list above ...

I have yet to figure out how Bookworm decides to burn tiles, so my high score was some years ago, roughly in the 800,000's; I think I've gotten slightly higher but have no proof. My idea here is not (only) to brag a little, but to get an idea of how good/bad one is in the 'big' picture. What's your highest word? In this current install I am doing very poorly and have nothing to report that would make anyone say oh! I'll bet some of you have had some great successes with this crazy game... Highest scores?...