Well, it said 548 for me. But I started out language oriented, and I've been in what might be called "the word business" all my working life.

There were a number of words that seemed familiar root-wise, but which I couldn't say I knew, and I passed them by. A few questionable (dodgy?) spellings, like "simpatico", which I understood but would have thought to be spelled "sympatico", so I passed it by. I wonder if there were any "trap" words, made up for the occasion in order to suck the reader in. I suspected a few. And if so, I wonder if there was a penalty exacted for claiming to know a word that really didn't exist. What I read of the instructions and scoring didn't seem to suggest that was the case.

Someone above commented that the spellings (or maybe only some of them) were American usage.   I saw a number of non-American things like -our endings where an American would use -or.

Dave Oesterreich