Jan 21 2010 02:29 PM
Re: Scrabbling 2010
Just put out a random challenge and this guy took me up on it.
I opened with JOINERY for a personal best 100 points.
Now I'm afraid to go to sleep.
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Scrabbling 2010
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Our new year brings a new top ranked dude playing under a brand new name as Chad Ochoseis (The Former Mendoza Line) keeps climbing and takes advantage of the slippage of 2009 champ LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr, who is unwilling to --- like marathon --- use new parenthood as an excuse to take a break. The champ has slud to fourth, no doubt meticulously planning a vicious comeback.
First 2010 Standings
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Jan 04 2010 09:07 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I just swept a 3-game series from LWFS, that would explain the slump. Meantime I can't beat Edgy to save my life.
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jan 04 2010 09:35 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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"Swept" is putting it kindly. (Weirdly, I think I've got the same hold over Edge of late-- 4-of-5 or 5-of-6.)
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| Fman99 Jan 04 2010 10:10 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I should resolve to play more in 2010, I haven't played in quite a while.
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| Fman99 Jan 04 2010 10:23 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I will start by challenging metsmarathon in the hopes that his sleep addled brain will provide no contest for my own sleep addled brain.
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| Fman99 Jan 04 2010 10:29 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Maybe one of you guyses know.
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jan 04 2010 10:41 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Go to "Settings," then click on the "Notifications" tab. Scroll all the way down to "Other Applications." Scrabble should be somewhere in 'eres.
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| Willets Point Jan 04 2010 07:39 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I'm Edgy's whipping boy these days.
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| Edgy DC Jan 04 2010 09:26 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Oooh, time for a visit to Oh, crap!
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| Fman99 Jan 05 2010 10:10 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Yeah, my box is checked, but to no avail. Crud.
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| A Boy Named Seo Jan 05 2010 12:38 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Scrabble app for iPhone now only $2.99 if you're a cheap-arse like me.
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| TransMonk Jan 05 2010 12:53 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Cheap-arse like being able to afford an iPhone?
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| Gwreck Jan 05 2010 03:21 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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The Gwreck household endorses that application (specifically the multi-player function through wi-fi).
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| TheOldMole Jan 05 2010 05:16 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Time to re-enter the fray. But I never can remember anyone's real name -- so someone challenge me.
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| Willets Point Jan 05 2010 06:24 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I've picked up the gauntlet.
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| A Boy Named Seo Jan 05 2010 08:03 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Cheap-arse now because I bought an iPhone.
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| TransMonk Jan 06 2010 07:32 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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HA! Got it!
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| metsmarathon Jan 06 2010 08:38 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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its early yet, but so far, i'd say you've made a smart play here. on my very first word, i had plunkers' regret, as almost immediately afterwards, i noticed a better spot for more of my letters that would've garnered more points. dangit!
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| A Boy Named Seo Jan 08 2010 03:52 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Been Edgy's bitch more than a few times, but held my own this last best of 3. He took the first match, I bounced back and grabbed the second, but found myself headed back to Bitchtown when he opened a commanding lead early on after back-to-back bingo's. I kept plugging away and closed the gap, though, kids. With 7 tiles each and an empty sack, Edgy knew I had the "Z" and blocked my obvious play at "ZA", but that ended up working in my favor as I could then throw down a phat DW "PUTZ", drawing within 2.
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| Edgy DC Jan 08 2010 04:53 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Watch what you say 'bout my Momma. It's Elvis' birthday.
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| A Boy Named Seo Jan 08 2010 06:48 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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You ain't the sonofabitch.
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| Edgy DC Jan 08 2010 07:14 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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It's too late to explain. I've already dispatched the dogs.
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| A Boy Named Seo Jan 08 2010 07:21 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Sonofabitch.
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| Edgy DC Jan 08 2010 08:18 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Seriously, I kind of deserved to lose by playing like the Mets --- scoring big in the early innings and then going into operation shutdown by the third.
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| seawolf17 Jan 13 2010 07:39 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I just beat Edge in a very close battle that turned right at the end when Edge, stuck with all vowels, traded in tiles with a slim 228-225 lead, leaving me to play NIX/HI/OX (with the X on a TL) for 56 points, and followed that up with a 24-point ZIT on my next turn.
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| Edgy DC Jan 13 2010 07:48 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I just missed a bingo on the TWS lane on my pentultimate play though.
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| seawolf17 Jan 13 2010 12:39 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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That's why I said 8th and not 9th. I got lucky with X and Z at the end; without those -- or if I'm stuck with them and don't have time to play them -- the game is yours.
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| metsmarathon Jan 14 2010 09:49 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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grr... what a jerk...
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Jan 14 2010 09:57 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Translated: I'm on a bingo spree. 3 in 4 moves between games with mm and edgy...
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| Edgy DC Jan 15 2010 09:06 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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He's not a scrabbler. He's a serial rapist.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Jan 15 2010 09:28 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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A spree, I tellsya
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| Edgy DC Jan 15 2010 09:37 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Bucket followed a bingo of mine with two of his own. That'd be OK, but he left me no room for number two in my rack.
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| A Boy Named Seo Jan 15 2010 10:55 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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what the hell's the score in that game?
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| Edgy DC Jan 15 2010 11:01 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Not so high, as I had a late-game trade-in. He's cruising with a 50-point lead, and I desperate for the last E. He's probably holding a blank. I'm near gone.
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| Edgy DC Jan 15 2010 11:22 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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The Kid just ran out of bullets. Held on to some S's, but spent most of my last turns with racks that look like AAIISSU
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| Frayed Knot Jan 15 2010 01:23 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I'm not familiar with the game you two are talking about.
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| Kong76 Jan 15 2010 01:27 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I just joined Scrabble.
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| Fman99 Jan 15 2010 01:30 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Wow, MM and I just completed our 2nd match, both of which were one by a single point by the player emptying his rack first. We each won once.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Jan 15 2010 02:08 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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It's a final, 424-357. I scored with BLOTTING (62), INTERRED (70) and ROGERED (77); he fought back with SIDEWISE (68) and the game's biggest play, a triple-word line ZEAL for 98. After all this went down Edgy closed the gap to single digits but I pulled away with a brilliant play PUB extending OAR to BOAR and IN to PIN while he traded in letters and hoped for miracles.
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| Edgy DC Jan 15 2010 02:18 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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It's still you're play, Lord Albert.
There's a technique of building so close to a TRIPLE WORD SCORE square with an awkward letter that it becomes impossible to put any real change down across it. I don't know if JCL was trying to do that, but if he was, it EXPLODED IN HIS FACE, and he was HORRIBLY BURNED, as I got my Z down on a DOUBLE LETTER SCORE square and the L down on the TRIPLE WORD SCORE. All to the tune of 97 points! Nonetheless, sports fans, he was able to beat me down, horribly burned face and all.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Jan 15 2010 02:46 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I am the ultimate wide-open board advocate and almost never do defensive things especially after 3 bingos.
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| Edgy DC Jan 15 2010 02:50 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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That Z was worth 80 points alone.
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| Kong76 Jan 15 2010 02:54 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I have to find my Scrabble dictionary and see if it has
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| Fman99 Jan 15 2010 04:28 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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You have been challenged, sir.
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| Kong76 Jan 15 2010 04:44 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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CPF Ho! lol
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| Kong76 Jan 16 2010 02:59 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Two of the games disappeared overnight?
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| Kong76 Jan 16 2010 08:10 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Fman, dishin' out a country ass kicking on Kongman.
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| Edgy DC Jan 16 2010 08:30 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Three-ways and four-ways are fun, but you soon realize that they take way too much out of your control. I wouldn't recommend too many of them.
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| Frayed Knot Jan 16 2010 08:36 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Are we still talking about Scrabble here?
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| Edgy DC Jan 16 2010 09:27 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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What's true in Scrabble often remains true when the board is put away.
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| Kong76 Jan 16 2010 01:32 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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EDC: Serious players avoid them altogether <<<
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| Willets Point Jan 16 2010 09:08 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Pretty much challenging everyone tonight. I'm addicted.
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| Edgy DC Jan 16 2010 09:20 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Threw three vowels out of my rack and got the same three back. Bloody hell.
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| Willets Point Jan 17 2010 07:52 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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It's turning into "Hand Willets His Ass on Plate" Weekend. First, Seo dominates a game from start to finish. Then Lunchbucket just played UNFIX on a TWS with the X on a DLS and hooked on an E for a total of 70 points.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Jan 17 2010 07:57 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Kind of a weird game here. I wound up with 3 S's at once, and murdered all three without pluralizing anything (MESSY and SQUELCH). UNFIX was only possible with the help of 2 blanks.
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| Fman99 Jan 17 2010 08:05 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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The hiatus seems to have done me well, I am dominating right now.
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| Edgy DC Jan 17 2010 08:08 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Havng three S's can be torture. Sometimes two can be. You don't want to waste one, but multiples can actually limit opportunities sometimes.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Jan 17 2010 08:16 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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yup, it was either play 'em for nothing or trade 'em in. I was lucky enough not to get whaled on for throwing them out there, but it's a tight board in general.
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| Kong76 Jan 17 2010 08:17 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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My first games are not ending pretty. I guess seawolf doesn't
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| metsmarathon Jan 17 2010 11:12 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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i'm doing all i can to not get doubled up here... and it ain't working...
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| A Boy Named Seo Jan 18 2010 01:40 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Held of a hard-charging Willets Point in round 2 to avenge the painful ass-handing he gave me in the '09 CPF Scabble-ganza.
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| Fman99 Jan 18 2010 02:21 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I throw down the gauntlet to you and your recent warmish streak sir.
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| A Boy Named Seo Jan 18 2010 02:28 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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| seawolf17 Jan 18 2010 04:49 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Hey. I gets there when I gets there.
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| Willets Point Jan 18 2010 06:02 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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The second game against Seo was so disheartening. I saw not one but two good leads vanish in instant.
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| Kong76 Jan 18 2010 06:57 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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sea: Hey. I gets there when I gets there <<<
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| Fman99 Jan 18 2010 08:22 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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What's the real-life equivalent of someone challenging you to a Scrabble game, then dropping a bingo on you to open and at the same time watching you draw a bunch of U's and shit-tastic consonants?
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| Willets Point Jan 18 2010 08:29 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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You've been Vinko Bogataj-ed.
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| Willets Point Jan 19 2010 05:00 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Seo & I start off a game with dueling bingos!
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| Edgy DC Jan 19 2010 10:45 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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After a furious climb back up by LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr, only two points separate our top three Scrabblers!
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| metsmarathon Jan 19 2010 11:16 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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damn you people and your bingos and your vocabularies and your unscrambled brains...
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| A Boy Named Seo Jan 19 2010 12:32 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Smoke more reefer. it's what I do.
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| Chad Ochoseis Jan 19 2010 12:47 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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My Scrabble was working strangely this week. I was playing a game with a pooler, and for a few days, Scrabble was convinced that this pooler was my only friend and wouldn't let me challenge anyone else. Last night, the game I had been playing was gone, but all my friends were restored.
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| Edgy DC Jan 19 2010 12:53 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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When playing at home, all my games are listed as Anonymous vs. Anonymous.
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| Fman99 Jan 19 2010 07:47 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Oh, did I just drop BONG, URINE and CERVIX on ABNS in that order?
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| Frayed Knot Jan 19 2010 07:57 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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ABNS?
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| A Boy Named Seo Jan 19 2010 09:36 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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After BONG and URINE, I told him next be better be PANTYRAID, but what are you gonna do with an X?? Well played, man.
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| A Boy Named Seo Jan 20 2010 11:43 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I got dealt "NOUTNGI" and saw a wide open "S" and a "C". I wanted to play "COUNTING" of the "C" but was short by one space.
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| Edgy DC Jan 21 2010 05:08 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Yeah, sometimes the seat-of-your-pants play works. My comeback last night against the red-hot Lunchbucket included WOS, which I knew was good because it had been played against me, and RERISES, which I laid out in desperation and hoped would stick.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Jan 21 2010 05:32 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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My recent hot streak had me so CAHNfident I would whip anyone's ass I was stunned to look up and see the score so close.
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| Edgy DC Jan 21 2010 07:12 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Nonetheless, your recent hot streak puts you at the top of our charts, vaulting all the way from fourth. Seawolf's run was short-lived, and Willets' strategy of challenging everybody at once late at night hurt him. He'll be back. He's the best bridger in the pack.
I recommend not playing me while my job situation is up in the air. It's made me angry, unscrupulous, casually unconcerned with occasionally focusing on board games during work, and remarkably honed on dishing out arbitrary jolts of pain.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Jan 21 2010 07:22 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Wham
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| metsmarathon Jan 21 2010 07:50 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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hmm... i don't think i like being in 9th place. i think i'll go for 10th.
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| Edgy DC Jan 21 2010 08:17 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Well, soupy's hanging on to tenth through idleness. I think we all need to challenge him and force the man to sink or swim.
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| Chad Ochoseis Jan 21 2010 08:22 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I had no idea WOS was good. Back in the 90s, when I had delusions of becoming a serious Scrabble player (yeah, such things exist - just ask Stefan Fatsis), I knew all the three letter words cold. But that was a long time ago, and the dictionary has changed. I took a flyer on ETOILES last week against LWFS, and it turned out to be good. Sometimes French words manage to squeeze their way into the English dictionary.
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jan 21 2010 11:09 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I'll have to admit, that ETOILES squeezed a couple of obscenities out of me.
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| Edgy DC Jan 21 2010 11:14 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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WO (variant of WOE) is one of those archaic thingies that may need to be booted. But if Shakespeare spelled it, the dictionary held it.
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| TheOldMole Jan 21 2010 01:25 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Why do they accept Scottish dialect like JO and not Irish dialect like DA?
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| Edgy DC Jan 21 2010 01:28 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I thought JO was allowed, because it's a martial arts weapon.
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| Willets Point Jan 21 2010 01:31 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I too have wondered why DA isn't acceptable being a DA myself. MA is valid.
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| A Boy Named Seo Jan 21 2010 01:38 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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MA and DA like mom and dad? Cause PA is good. We never said DA around these parts. Funny thing is, you can choose from a couple different dictionaries when you start a game, but neither is the official SCRABBLE dictionary, as I recall. Anyone know why that is?
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| Edgy DC Jan 21 2010 02:29 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Just put out a random challenge and this guy took me up on it.
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| Frayed Knot Jan 21 2010 02:30 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I understood JO to be a shorter from of JOE as in a friend.
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| Chad Ochoseis Jan 21 2010 08:39 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I think TWL is the official Scrabble dictionary - same as OSPD4.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Jan 22 2010 05:39 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Barnburner in the third game of the JCL-Marathon series:
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| Edgy DC Jan 22 2010 06:23 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Was REDCOAT one play or two (or three)?
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Jan 22 2010 07:02 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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REDCOAT was one word, hooked onto HO to make HOT.
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| Edgy DC Jan 22 2010 07:05 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Bingos from compound words are great.
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| metsmarathon Jan 22 2010 08:42 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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i was not a happy camper when you plunked down FINIS, as i was itching to throw DECORATE down one slot above it, and RI and TI are not terribly valid two-letter words, i don't think.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Jan 22 2010 09:29 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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This is Friday-morning quarterbacking, but the play of yours I probably wouldn't have made was AGE.
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| Frayed Knot Jan 22 2010 10:13 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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TI is legit.
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| Willets Point Jan 22 2010 10:29 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Fellow Scrabblers please weigh-in on your strategy in the following circumstance. You have 7 one-point tiles on your rack with which you can make one or more bingos. However, there is absolutely nowhere on the board where you can hook the bingo.
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| seawolf17 Jan 22 2010 10:38 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I had that happen two turns in a row in a game I'm playing against friends.
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| Frayed Knot Jan 22 2010 10:41 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I've done 'B' with both good results and bad.
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| Chad Ochoseis Jan 22 2010 10:44 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Yep. Play a word that you think will open the board if you can. Don't use too many of your letters, and if you've got a nice bingo stem like -EST or -ERS, hang on to it and play other letters. But swapping tiles is something that should be done very rarely, and skipping w/o swapping makes your strategy fairly obvious. It's perfectly legit to count tiles, so if it's late in the game, you can figure out what tiles are left, take a guess at how likely it is that the board will open up, and make a decision accordingly.
Looking at the board, I think you might have been able to play CORDATE off the F (EF and FE are both good).
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Jan 22 2010 10:52 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I often try to play only a few letters, and jam them somewhere, if you have 5 decent bingo builders you have a good shot at making another when you reach into the bag.
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| Edgy DC Jan 22 2010 11:07 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I swap. I'm not ashamed.
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| A Boy Named Seo Jan 22 2010 01:01 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Fman, you wanna go best of 3?
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| Edgy DC Jan 22 2010 01:21 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I've got a challenge in on marathon.
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| seawolf17 Jan 22 2010 02:09 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I'm juggling six games right now, and I'm scattered. My longest-running feud (we're currently tied at two games each) has an ugly board right now. We're squishing the entire game on one side of the diagonal. I'm not letting her open up the board, and she's apparently playing the same strategy. I have a sixty-point lead, though, so I'm playing conservatively.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Jan 22 2010 02:19 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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You've been challenged. And Bingoed on, booya!
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| seawolf17 Jan 22 2010 02:19 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Ass.
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| Fman99 Jan 22 2010 03:19 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Yeah, I better try to avenge my own pasting at your hands. Still tingling in the bungal region after that one.
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| Fman99 Jan 22 2010 03:27 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I have thrown down on you also sir.
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jan 22 2010 03:33 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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WHATCHU ALL AFRAID OF? KING KONG AIN'T GOT NOTHIN' ON ME!
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| Kong76 Jan 22 2010 06:28 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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My new bumper sticker came today.
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| seawolf17 Jan 22 2010 09:35 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I'm juggling seven games right now, so my head is spinning. I'm turning off the computer now.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Jan 22 2010 09:51 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Dirty bastid OXIDIZED me. I'm losing to 5 different people now
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| Willets Point Jan 23 2010 09:35 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Lunchbucket just played PRACTICE over a TWS for 101 points. I've never seen a game go out of reach so fast.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Jan 23 2010 10:45 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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That was really something, new game hi score for me (548!).
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| Edgy DC Jan 24 2010 06:23 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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UNIDEAL?
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Jan 26 2010 07:22 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Let's play Make Your Best Move.
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| seawolf17 Jan 26 2010 07:49 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Play DOZE/CARD down and hope for an S on the next rack.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Jan 26 2010 07:59 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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DOZED might be better, if you were gonna go that route.
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| Willets Point Jan 26 2010 09:51 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I'd probably put the Z over the A and play something like ZOO or ZED.
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| Edgy DC Jan 26 2010 09:54 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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-DO
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Jan 26 2010 10:18 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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DA isn't good.
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| Frayed Knot Jan 26 2010 10:31 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I would have played DOZED -- gets rid of two of the three Ds, burns only one of the blanks, triples up the Z and 'steals' the CAR; 42 points if I read things correctly
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| Kong76 Jan 27 2010 06:17 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Which one of you broke the Scrabble game?
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| Kong76 Jan 27 2010 06:20 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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If and when it comes back I'll play a couple of games if anyone
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| Kong76 Jan 28 2010 02:58 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Thanks Edge and Sea, now if they'd fix the freakin' game ...
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| seawolf17 Jan 29 2010 02:10 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I think I've succeeded in driving Edgy completely batty. He'll never play me again.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Jan 29 2010 02:20 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I just beat him 399-397, that can't be helping his mood.
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| seawolf17 Jan 29 2010 02:30 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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We're playing a really tight game right now. I'm not leaving him any openings at all other than half-locked Cs and Vs, and I just bingoed with one tile left in the bag.
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| Edgy DC Jan 29 2010 02:31 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I'm re-challenging both of you sucks this weekend. Drink will flow and blood will spill. And if the boys wanna fight, you better let 'em.
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| Edgy DC Jan 29 2010 02:47 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Seriously, I have to give Mr. Jeopardy some credit here by totally paralizing me with his defense. It was the Scrabble equivelant of Buddy Ryan's 6-4. Playing him at the same time as playing Lunchbucket --- the Don Coryell of Scrabble --- was making my head swim.
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| Kong76 Jan 31 2010 01:28 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I'm the NJ Nets of the CPF.
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| Edgy DC Jan 31 2010 01:47 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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If it matters, Liam's giving it to me as much as (or more than) I'm giving it to you.
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| Kong76 Jan 31 2010 02:23 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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He finished me off earlier. It's pretty bad when you can play the
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| Willets Point Jan 31 2010 08:23 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Playing the most frustrating game ever against Lunchbucket. Just a nasty board with no place to hook anything.
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| A Boy Named Seo Feb 01 2010 10:53 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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After opening with GOTH (16) and INSTRUCT (70), I just dropped the ridiculous UNREALLY (76) on a friend of mine and am sitting at 161 after 3 moves. Hoping for a personal high in this game, but couldn't believe I played UNREALLY and it was good. UNREALLY, Scrabble???
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| Fman99 Feb 01 2010 04:06 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I just challenged all you motherfuckers.
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| themetfairy Feb 01 2010 04:16 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I still can't rectify those words coming out of that avatar's mouth....
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| Fman99 Feb 01 2010 07:57 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Which is good. Fgirl hardly ever talks like that. She did tell me after I changed a dirty diaper tonight that she wanted to see her "dumpage."
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| themetfairy Feb 01 2010 09:02 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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LOL
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Feb 03 2010 07:50 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Lost to Fman when he took a lead by scoring off a Z five or six times, then shutting down every opportunity I had to get back in it. Lost to Mole when his D limited me to 261 points, about as few I've scored in any game in the FBCPF Era.
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| seawolf17 Feb 03 2010 09:41 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I'm playing a guy right now -- one of my axe-murderer friends from The Bench -- who is clearly playing open book; he just played ZONULAE on a TW. Not cool.
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| Chad Ochoseis Feb 03 2010 03:12 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Waitasecond...if the Z was on a triple letter and the word itself was tripled, that's 90 points right there. Including the bingo bonus, the score should have been at least 140. In other developments, LWFS is paying me back for
Since said ass-handing, he's pounded me to Chadbits in a rematch. I bingoed at the end with RUTTING to make the final score look respectable, but was down by 200 for most of the game. I also learned the hard way that neither COALDUST nor OUTCALLED are words. In the rubber game, he's bingoed on three of his last four plays while I've been playing crapola like IRE. Current score is 316 - ninetysomething.
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| Frayed Knot Feb 03 2010 03:17 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Unless youse guys are using bi-directional words, there is no way for a word to hit both a TLS square and a TWS square.
You people obviously play with different racks than I do.
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| Edgy DC Feb 03 2010 04:59 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Listen to him, blaming the tiles over and over again.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Feb 03 2010 05:07 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Sorry. Z was doubled, not tripled (vertical down the middle). One O was blank.
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Feb 03 2010 07:23 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Nothing too fancy: PEONAGE, BROADEST, and SNACKED.
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| Frayed Knot Feb 03 2010 08:19 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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See, that's my point, you're playing a game where you draw three racks and yet don't get any 'I's or 'U's -- the game I play would have given me at least three of each and thrown in a pair of 'V's for good measure.
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Feb 03 2010 08:47 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Leftover brain-drizzle from AP European History. Thanks, Mr. Goudy.
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| Edgy DC Feb 06 2010 08:51 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Hey, Scrabble just loaded.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Feb 06 2010 09:30 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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oh goody
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| Kong76 Feb 07 2010 11:18 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Old Mole 'poi' and 'peke' in the same play. Wasn't familiar with
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| Willets Point Feb 07 2010 08:44 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Got two blanks on my last draw from the bag and hit a walk off bingo for a win against Lunchbucket. So, so very satisfying.
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| Willets Point Feb 07 2010 08:46 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Er...make it my second to last draw. I wasted a J on that turn because I couldn't make a bingo with it.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Feb 07 2010 09:09 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I think I'm making progress. I wasn't completely blindsided!
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| Edgy DC Feb 12 2010 08:53 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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ewer
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Feb 12 2010 09:16 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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All my friends are anonymous, nameless strangers.
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| A Boy Named Seo Feb 12 2010 09:19 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Willets almost put up 5-hundy on me yesterday, while setting a new personal best for him. Felt like Mike Bacsik grooving to Barry Bonds every time I layed a tile down. No chance.
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| Willets Point Feb 12 2010 09:27 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I've been on a hot streak lately with some impressive wins against Seo, F-Man, Lunchbucket and now Edgy. My rating has gone over 1400 for the first time. I feel like I should retire while I'm at the top of my game.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Feb 12 2010 09:37 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I could have written that same sentence a few weeks ago. Scrabble is a very humbling game.
My opponents look anonymous on Mac/Safari, but normal in pc/firefox. I got a scrabble message that suggested they wouldn't be able to send notifications thru FB anymore, but instead of agreeing to to be emailed allatime, I just closed the dialog box.
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| Edgy DC Feb 12 2010 10:01 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Watch me sink like a stone. Like a crag. Like a pellet. Like a clump of ingeous granite.
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| Willets Point Feb 12 2010 10:07 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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People are anonymous in IE/pc too, but not anonymous in Firefox on either OS for me.
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| Fman99 Feb 12 2010 10:31 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I won all four of the profanity-cited challenges above. Then three of you challenged me to rematches and thumped me in return.
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| Willets Point Feb 12 2010 10:54 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Like a pebble falling to the bottom of a ewer.
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| Willets Point Feb 14 2010 08:24 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Chad Ochoseis is humbling me as we speak.
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| Willets Point Feb 16 2010 10:26 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Seawolf & I are tied at 332, each with two tiles left.
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| Kong76 Feb 16 2010 04:05 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Game properly loads for me today maybe once in
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| Kong76 Mar 06 2010 11:51 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Just stickin' this here, too lazy to print it.
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| seawolf17 Mar 11 2010 08:02 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I just played JIVE in back-to-back games against Edge and Kase. Cool.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 12 2010 02:51 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Mar 12 2010 02:56 PM |
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Edgy-JCL trading late-game gutpunches.
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| Edgy DC Mar 12 2010 02:54 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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If my life amounts to nothing else, I wll get a two-letter word with a V into the dictionary. The impotence of sitting there, passing my turns, watching him beat me with shit like LAT. Ugh.
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| Frayed Knot Mar 12 2010 05:04 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I'm convinced that in the near future the popes over at SCRABBLE.Inc are going to "discover" some two-letter words involving both V & C as those are currently the only two letters that can't be formed that way either starting or ending a word.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 15 2010 08:13 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Wolfy and Seo have been challenged.
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| Kong76 Mar 16 2010 03:43 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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In our last two games, The Old Mole and I tied and he just beat
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| Edgy DC Mar 31 2010 07:45 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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How is AFRO not a word?!
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| seawolf17 Mar 31 2010 07:51 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Capitalized, I'd guess.
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| Edgy DC Mar 31 2010 07:54 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Cold my ass. You and your 1481 rating are untouchable right now.
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| A Boy Named Seo Mar 31 2010 08:44 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Sorry, I've been shit at playing a timely move lately. Got my phone with me at work today, so I'm gonna try and keep up for a change.
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Mar 31 2010 10:09 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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This and ZEN are my BUGABOOs (also acceptable). Wolf, we aren't FaceBuddies, are we?
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| Kong76 Apr 01 2010 02:35 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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In a game against a nonforumite, I have four U's and a
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Apr 06 2010 10:16 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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| Edgy DC Apr 06 2010 10:57 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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This sort of volley in the culture wars will not go well, and I imagine that competitive play will continue to disallow plays such as DEBARGE.
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| Frayed Knot Apr 06 2010 01:27 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Whattaya mean no good?!? 'XJK' is a brand name car from Jaguar - not my fault you don't like the fact that I stuck it on a TLS and got 97 points out of it!!
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| Chad Ochoseis Apr 06 2010 02:11 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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What surprised me was this quote:
Nope...only XEROX and FEDEX are. I wouldn't have guessed that any of them were good - for all of the Scrabble dictionary's softness around the edges, I tend to think of it as strict in not allowing trademarks. I didn't even think KETCHUP was legal (it is). In any event, yeah, Hasbro owns the rights to North American Scrabble, and the National Scrabble Association makes the tournament rules. I believe the NSA decides which words are legal in competitive Scrabble in North America and which are not - neither Hasbro nor Mattel has any input.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 06 2010 02:14 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Yes, this sounded fishy to me.
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| Kong76 Apr 06 2010 05:33 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I caught up in 5-6 games.
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| seawolf17 Apr 07 2010 05:45 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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XEROX and FEDEX are legal words?
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| Frayed Knot Apr 07 2010 06:25 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I know that Xerox - the company - lost a legal battle a bunch of years ago over the word xerox. They tried claiming it as a copyright but the ruling said that the word (in the lower-case) was already in general use as a more generic term for copying something and they therefore couldn't claim sole ownership of it. Guess their legal department wasn't quick enough.
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| Edgy DC Apr 07 2010 07:06 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Yeah, I'm hoping for an online Scrabble game that allows you to edit the dictionary for your gaming pleasure. As kids, we'd play a variation that allowed one proper noun and one contraction per game.
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| Willets Point Apr 12 2010 05:51 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I don't understand how the SCRABBLE rating works. I just lost to Edgy and my rating went up.
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| Willets Point Apr 12 2010 08:52 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I just had a rack that spelled out JOELMAN.
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| Edgy DC Apr 12 2010 09:04 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Nice.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 12 2010 09:27 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I was moderately proud for getting a troublesome rack to pay off by playing VAIN, extending an existing AZO to AZON.
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| Edgy DC Apr 12 2010 10:09 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Willets had a great play late in that game that cut it to single digits at the end. With the board all tied up and points hard to come by, the top right corner looks like this.
I can smell the finish line, and I think my main concern is getting the points out of my rack in case he plays out. I'm holding a Q. My play is obvious and, to me, it doesn't open up anything new to him. I play...
Freaking brilliant for 37 points and a finish that was mighty tight. Taht's why we call Willets "The Badger." He's relentless.
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| Frayed Knot Apr 15 2010 05:42 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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ATTABOY is a word?
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| Kong76 Apr 15 2010 06:44 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I played THRUWAY today and was surprised it was a word.
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| Kong76 Apr 22 2010 07:13 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I can do a few more CPF games. I like when I have
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| Edgy DC Apr 24 2010 06:35 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Bloody rankings. I peaked at 1411, then slipped and slipped to like 1269. I've trudged back up, but it's been a tough haul when Willets Point is across the table.
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| seawolf17 Apr 24 2010 07:20 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Willets, fresh off whomping me, is whomping me again. I'll be back to earth soon.
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| Edgy DC Apr 24 2010 09:03 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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The key to Willets is getting to him early. If he scores big in the first five plays it's practically over. He's so damn good at inside plays, it's really hard to come back on him. I did come back on him once, but I'm certain I caught him after a crying-baby night.
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| Willets Point Apr 24 2010 11:28 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I think I need to befriend LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr so we can face off at Scrabble.
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| seawolf17 Apr 25 2010 12:26 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Says the guy who challenges me, and by the time I click into the game, he's already opened with a bingo. You're right, though. He's dangerous with a lead, giving you nothing to work with.
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| Edgy DC Apr 25 2010 04:24 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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And how about that bingo?
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| Kong76 Apr 25 2010 04:37 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Mole bingo'd me just before ... it was just a matter of time.
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| Chad Ochoseis Apr 25 2010 04:37 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWP-AsG5DRk
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| Edgy DC Apr 25 2010 05:05 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I knew all those hours I "wasted" watching The Old Grey Whistle Test would come in handy.
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| Willets Point Apr 25 2010 07:21 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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BANGLES? Or did you find something else in there?
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| Edgy DC Apr 25 2010 07:27 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Oh, I played BANGLES, though I suppose BENGALS would have also worked.
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| Willets Point Apr 25 2010 09:55 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I think Edgy and I accidentally toggled our game up to Thermonuclear War Scrabble.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 29 2010 09:07 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I lose to Willets, as usual:
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| Edgy DC Apr 29 2010 09:32 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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That looks like a great game.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 29 2010 09:56 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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No, "rs ago" is the time stamp on the comment: "3 hrs ago" Just like here, I was bragging about enduring MORALIZE and complaining about UNGLOVES
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| Edgy DC Apr 29 2010 10:03 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Yeah, MORALIZED would have DEMORALIZED me but it clearly came in the first few plays, so you had some time to dig out.
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| Willets Point Apr 30 2010 08:04 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Seawolf is kicking my tush right now which should bring my hot streak to an end.
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| Ceetar Apr 30 2010 09:12 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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with 11 pages I may not have noticed it, but I'd like to mention the Apple App called "Words with Friends" which while not precisely Scrabble (the multipliers are arranged slightly differently, and the point values are slightly off) the rest is the same and it's free and whatnot.
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| seawolf17 Apr 30 2010 09:38 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Back to back bingos -- my first in weeks -- will do that. It's so nice when words just appear on your rack. I clicked into the game and saw LIOTING; then it was just a matter of switching the T and L and finding a place to stick it.
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| Edgy DC May 01 2010 08:38 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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And may opens with Willets Point at the top of our charts breaking 1500. Seawolf goes up one point but drops two slots in the rankings to third. That's how competiitve our top ten has become.
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| Ceetar May 02 2010 12:09 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Because who doesn't need more Scrabble..I'm sure this will be humbling..
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| Willets Point May 04 2010 10:10 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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My time at the top of the charts will be brief as I was totally bitchslapped by Edgy while Seawolf, Chad, and LWFS are kicking in me in the head and groin as I lay senseless on the ground.
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| Edgy DC May 04 2010 10:18 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Every dog has his day, and, well, woof.
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| Ceetar May 04 2010 10:30 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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It's not so much you can't put your pants on right, you just can't decide which pants you want to try on.
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| Kong76 May 05 2010 04:18 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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ixia!?!? wtf?
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| Edgy DC May 05 2010 05:47 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I didn't know that one either. Damn, that could have saved me a dozen times over.
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| seawolf17 May 05 2010 06:26 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I just played the game of my life against Willets. He opened with a 68-point TINGLES, and I just kept chipping away. PEW. FJORD. PLOYS, BEANIE, TRANQ, and DULLY, all to TW squares, pulled me into the lead. And after a very vowel-heavy endgame, I had secured a 413-345 win.
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| A Boy Named Seo May 05 2010 09:13 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Had Edgy beat and I effed it away. I was down by 10 (I thought), popped an 8 point word to clear my rack, and thought I read he had 5 tiles left on his, so I figured I had him beat. Either I read something wrong or I don't know how to play Scrabble at all. Edgy wins by 2 and I'm dumb. I'll get ya next time, DC.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket May 05 2010 09:56 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Wow. Now that's a kick-ass Scrabble word right there.
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| Willets Point May 06 2010 07:52 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Yeah, and my ass is killing me.
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| Willets Point May 17 2010 07:37 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Ready to try to regain my dignity. Accepting all challenges.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket May 18 2010 02:28 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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What about my dignity? I played one of my best games ever, given the draws and stuff, and still lost, I think 414-401 was the final score.
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| Ceetar May 18 2010 02:30 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Feel free to challenge me: http://www.facebook.com/ceetar
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| Kong76 May 18 2010 03:35 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I just skipped a turn in a county ass beatin' at the hands of
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| seawolf17 May 19 2010 08:40 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Your final: 471-154. Weird game; we locked the whole game in the top left half of the board. WIN and VAN were my last two plays. 
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr May 19 2010 09:06 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I got IXIA'd by Ochoseis last game (a 20-point-loss, IIRC). Now I got double-word MAGLEVed.
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| seawolf17 May 20 2010 12:31 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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| Frayed Knot May 20 2010 02:12 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Another word which never would have occurred to me was a real word.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket May 20 2010 02:16 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Someday I'm gonna stop losing these 400 point games. Between you and Willets my bum is sore. My issue in this game was getting stuck with dumps a few many times: ROILED was a sad compromise for a bingo I had no place to play; and PONIED was a nice play but a shit one at the same time. I'm also tired of games turning on who plays ZA.
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| Edgy DC May 20 2010 02:24 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Somebody got FJORDED again. FJORDED on the triple word score, no less.
In my best games, I still have trouble scoring high enough to leave Wolfie behind. He just inbounds the ball runs back up the court and answers. He's like the Michael Fjordan of Scrabble.
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| Chad Ochoseis May 21 2010 09:35 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I'd forgotten that IXIA was good until Kong's post. What was interesting there was the hot-potato game we played with the Q at the end. With five tiles left in the bag and only two possible places to play a Q, I blocked one spot and drew three tiles. Then LWFS - guessing that I picked up the Q, I think - blocked the other spot and drew (and ate) the Q. Tough game.
I think it's short for "magnetic levitation" and has something to do with an approach to engineering high-speed train systems. A computer played it against me once, maybe twelve years ago. But it's one of those words you never forget once you see it.
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| Kong76 May 22 2010 06:30 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I'm down to two active games and could do a couple. I suck,
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| Frayed Knot May 22 2010 07:38 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Oh I knew what it stood for - I just didn't have any idea that it would be considered a word by itself. And, if it is, I shudder to think what other technical contractions they consider legit. Military jargon alone would make for some great high-scoring consonant dumps.
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| Edgy DC May 22 2010 08:00 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I tried a few:
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| Willets Point May 28 2010 06:23 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I played a torturous game against Ceetar. He's leading most of the game but from my last 7 tiles I'm able to play FAQUIR across at TWS with the A hooking on PING to make APING. That play earns me 74 points and puts me ahead 366 to 341 with only 1 tile - a U - on my rack. On Ceetar's next turn, he plays a U to make the word UH. I think nothing of it until I realize that he's found the ONLY SPOT ON THE BOARD WHERE I COULD PLAY MY U! I sit through three more tortuous turns watching Ceetar put out a single tile each time, eroding my lead, and I have to keep skipping until finally the game ends.
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| Kong76 May 28 2010 06:35 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I feel out of the loop again, you guys are all facebook friends
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| Willets Point May 28 2010 06:48 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Ceetar posted his Facebook ID earlier in this thread and asked for challenges, so I did.
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| Kong76 May 28 2010 06:57 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I just invented a new forum anagram a la YLDB, LGM, BHMB, etc.
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| Ceetar May 28 2010 07:10 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I'm going to assume the most recent friend request is you. I really need a spreadsheet or something. I think I've friended 5-6 of you now, and the only one who I remember name->ID is Edgy.
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| Kong76 May 28 2010 07:24 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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That's me, Kong76 lol. Most people here call me KC or Kase ...
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| Edgy DC Jun 14 2010 08:40 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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SENSORIA?!
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| Willets Point Jun 15 2010 10:39 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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EVERTING?! That's missing a Y and an H.
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| Edgy DC Jun 15 2010 10:46 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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It's also missing a CHRIS and a LLOYD, but look at it as your sensorious chicken coming home to roost.
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| seawolf17 Jun 15 2010 02:01 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Whoever plays me next, I'm going to just keep trading my tiles in until I can play VUVUZELA across two TWs.
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| Edgy DC Jun 16 2010 07:53 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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What's my best play here?
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| Edgy DC Jun 16 2010 08:06 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Too late. He got me.
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| seawolf17 Jun 16 2010 08:09 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I don't think you have one. You can't use all your tiles, so that's out.
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| Willets Point Jun 16 2010 08:10 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Hard to believe that just 6 weeks ago I stood on the top of the world. My rating has plummeted into the 1200s as I've been savaged left and right by multiple opponents. My only consolation is that I can still beat Edgy.
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| Edgy DC Jun 16 2010 08:17 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I played VAS/SQUIRTS for 20 and indeed got beat by XI.
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| Willets Point Jun 25 2010 10:45 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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It's about time we had another Scrabble tournament. Actually, I'm not even sure if we managed to get a championship out of the 2009 tournament.
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jun 26 2010 05:11 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 26 2010 05:50 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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In
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| seawolf17 Jun 26 2010 06:05 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Bring it.
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| Kong76 Jun 26 2010 06:33 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Not sure I qualify, but if you need a body I'm in.
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| Edgy DC Jun 26 2010 06:41 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I'm really cold and have to turn it around sooner or later. IN.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 26 2010 06:48 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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In this thread is the recap:
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| Edgy DC Jun 26 2010 09:02 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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So, we really should find a new envirnoment to play that doesn't have the open dictinoary and auto-knockoff policies.
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| Edgy DC Jun 26 2010 09:08 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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By the way, 14 lead changes and a one tie so far in my current brawl with Lunchbucket. He's got a six-point lead with nothing in the bag. He's holding a full rack and I've got six tiles.
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| metsmarathon Jun 26 2010 09:11 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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in.
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| seawolf17 Jun 26 2010 10:49 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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There's interesting analysis starting around Page 3 of a first-round matchup between me and Edge.
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| Willets Point Jun 26 2010 11:33 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Really? I hope I haven't overstepped the boundaries in suggesting a new tournament then.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 26 2010 12:04 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I dunno, maybe we never finished it. Anywhoo, I'm up for another go, that's ancient history as far as I'm concerned.
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| TheOldMole Jun 26 2010 12:37 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I'll play. You need someone to be eliminated in the first round.
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| Willets Point Jun 26 2010 08:51 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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If you find something that can be played easily online that would be great. I wouldn't be able to play any of those smart phone app versions of Scrabble. I think I would still use the ratings on Facebook for the initial seeding regardless. So far we have: Willets Point LeiterWagnerFasterStronger John Cougar Lunchbucket seawolf17 Kong76 Edgy DC metsmarathon Old Mole Don't be shy about signing up. We can do play in rounds if there's an odd number.
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| Fman99 Jun 26 2010 10:44 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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In
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| Edgy DC Jun 27 2010 01:38 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Bloody hell with the two-point bucket loss. His last bullet was V, and I set him up to put it on the TLS, with VOE. Horrid defense.
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| Chad Ochoseis Jun 27 2010 02:58 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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In.
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| Frayed Knot Jun 27 2010 03:52 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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http://www.isc.ro/ -- is a game you'd need to download to your computer (easy) But, once there, it's not limited to just Facebook users, has various chat features, doesn't have a word lookup* mechanism (so cheaters need other sources), and can be programmed to one of several settings including where only the opponent can challenge a word and players can pre-determine the penalty for phony word and for bad challenge (lost turn or do-over). There is a rating system in use, you can limit your games to just "friends" (as in: each other so as to not "taint" the ratings with unknown outsiders), and you can set game time limits. The disadvantage is that you wouldn't be able to do these 'get back to you tomorrow' games you've been playing as I don't think the time limit goes past a 1 hour (per player) game. 1 hour per is about 4 times as long as I like to play anyway but any time limit would require some sort of 'appointment' playing rather than the open-ended 'whenever' deal. * Well, it does, but it's disabled while you're in the midst of playing. It is functional if you're just watching a game or to check on words after the game is over.
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| Edgy DC Jun 27 2010 04:28 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I'll check out this Romanian site.
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| Chad Ochoseis Jun 27 2010 05:06 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I'm bogeyman64. "bogeyman" was my first handle when I started playing online Scrabble in the late '90s. It doesn't have any golf implications; I just happened to have "I'm Your Boogie Man" playing an endless loop in my brain the day I needed to come up with a name.
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| A Boy Named Seo Jun 27 2010 05:44 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Hey apologies (mostly to Edgy) for my "leisurely" play recently. I've been slow to the point of annoyance, I'm sure. Wanna say yes for the '10 tourney, but I've been real flaky lately.
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| Chad Ochoseis Jun 27 2010 05:53 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I won my first game of isc.ro scrabble playing a 10 minute per person speed game against someone whom I strongly suspect was a bot. He/she took no time to make moves, played far-out words like HEDER and DAUBRY, and didn't seem to have much in the way of tile placement skills.
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| Frayed Knot Jun 27 2010 06:19 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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That system simply assigns you to either red or blue (just look at your rack) while the opponent is the other so you'll know which words you/he played.
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| Willets Point Jun 29 2010 06:33 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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So far we have:
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| seawolf17 Jun 30 2010 04:30 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Kase just dropped a 176-point hammer on someone.
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| Edgy DC Jun 30 2010 05:37 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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No huhway.
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| Willets Point Jun 30 2010 07:44 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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KC needs to explain all with screenshots. That's awesome.
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| Edgy DC Jun 30 2010 07:48 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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NOWHERES
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| metsmarathon Jun 30 2010 08:04 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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i'm just glad it wasn't against me...
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| Ceetar Jun 30 2010 08:13 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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count me in, even though I'll probably suck without facebook telling me "hey, that's not a word"
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| Willets Point Jul 01 2010 09:10 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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You can sign up until noon tomorrow. Here's everyone who is signed up thus far, now ranked by SCRABBLE rating:
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| Edgy DC Jul 02 2010 09:56 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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ABN Seo, are you in?
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| Willets Point Jul 02 2010 10:19 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Seo gets a bye in the first round if he's in.
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| Willets Point Jul 02 2010 10:26 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Here are the seeds assuming that ABN Seo is participating. Please verify that I've matched up the correct CPF handles to the ratings.
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jul 02 2010 10:42 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Double will take a bit longer... but is fairer, I think. (And besides, you iPhoned folks can play while driving, "enjoying" the Chinese opera, rock climbing, etc...)
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Jul 02 2010 10:45 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I like double for sure. Mixes it up and gives every player at least one "bad day."
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| Ceetar Jul 02 2010 12:04 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I prefer the leisurely way too. But feel free to poke me, message me, email me, tweet me ,harass me here, or prod me in some other way if i'm taking too long. I have a short attention span sometimes when
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| Chad Ochoseis Jul 02 2010 12:29 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Leisurely is good. Though feel free to look for me on isc.ro if you're ever up for a non-tourney real time game.
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| Ceetar Jul 02 2010 12:34 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I wasn't really. Figure I'll forget who it is in an hour or so anyway.
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| Kong76 Jul 02 2010 06:01 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Willets, if you'd like to use the forum facebook page somehow
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| Kong76 Sep 16 2010 07:09 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I'm thinking of starting five games of Scrabble with my real fb name
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| Edgy DC Sep 18 2010 07:37 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Crane Pool Scrabbler ranked by their top-scoring word:
The standout one here is STATING. That's not much juice to multiply. LWFS must of hooked it eight ways to Sunday.
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| Kong76 Sep 18 2010 07:47 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I'm an outcast because I suck ...
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| seawolf17 Sep 24 2010 08:28 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Just finished off one of my best games ever. Two very solid gambles paid off for me.
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| Ceetar Sep 24 2010 09:20 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I'm on hiatus, but come Halloween..let the scrabbling commence.
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| Edgy DC Sep 25 2010 06:39 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Oh, great. He's going to Scrabble Camp.
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| Willets Point Sep 25 2010 07:21 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Oy vey .... I thought I could beat Seawolf for the first time ever. I had a good lead on him. I was ahead with 1 tile left to play. And that 1 tile had to be an X. I need to learn to count tiles.
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| seawolf17 Oct 14 2010 07:45 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Put another beatdown on Willets, with a board like I've never played:
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| Edgy DC Oct 14 2010 08:20 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I had come to accept that I was a 1300 player, usually beating the guys behind that score, usally handled by the guys ahead of that. But you can't get comfortable, because I fell into a deep slump and went down to the 1240s, and then redoubled my efforts and I've rallied well beyound that floating point. I still know I don't have the vocabulary to punch at that weight, but I'm seeing the board two turns ahead better. I've got to imagine a real-world 1200 player playing at a board with a timer would still trounce me. marathon, though, where did he come from?
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 14 2010 08:47 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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He took up my offer for cupcakes and has beaten the shit out of me three straight games (and has begun a 4th). Last game was especially frustrating as he charged to big lead, as I fought off some junk and made one run after another at him but he counterpunched every time. Killer was when he followed a 57-point, would-be game-changing JEEZ (57 pts) with a 45-point JO/OX/EX.
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| metsmarathon Oct 14 2010 09:37 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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i've been getting better at finding good places to stuff tough letters, partly.
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| metsmarathon Oct 14 2010 09:52 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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well. he showed me.
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| Willets Point Oct 15 2010 08:01 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Seawolf is just unbeatable. And that board was killer. I had the Q on my last rack with no place to play it. I created a space to play it and of course Seawolf blocked it so I ate the Q, not that it would have helped me anyhow (except for my pride).
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| Frayed Knot Oct 15 2010 08:09 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Those really closed-off boards can be a pain.
How 'bout the QI/QI on the left-middle TWS? That's 66 points out of one tile.
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| metsmarathon Oct 15 2010 08:14 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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i'll give him what for.
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| Willets Point Oct 15 2010 08:15 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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SOU was my second to last play with hopes I could play QUIN across it on my next turn but Seawolf blocked it with OI. So I extended LET to make INLET as a pure desperation move just in case 'wolf had nowhere to play his final tile. He played IN to finish the game leaving that tantalizing TWS there that I could never play.
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| seawolf17 Oct 18 2010 02:08 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I'm playing a guy I know from college who is cheating like a mutha. He just played ZAFTIEH. Really? ZAFTIEH? "A Turkish police officer," according to dictionary.com. Gotta be effin' kidding me.
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| metsmarathon Oct 18 2010 02:15 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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he could've recently returned from a trip to istanbul...
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 18 2010 02:35 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Have you ever been in a Turkish prison?
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| Edgy DC Oct 18 2010 02:42 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I just siezed control of a game against Willets with STANDEES, then bungled it away by leaving open a TWS row for him to play JOISTS. I had a play there but considered 24 points (or so) too small a payoff to use my S on, failing to factor in the points the other way when he JOIST-ed me.
Now I know. And I lose by 10, frustrated with my failed foresight.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 18 2010 02:57 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I JOISTED one of you guys up the ass just recently.
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| Fman99 Oct 18 2010 08:33 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Ha! I started reading this and thought you were talking about me, except of course that I never played ZAFTIEH and you're beating me by 90 points and all.
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| Willets Point Oct 30 2010 07:10 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I have no games going right now. Anyone up for a game, feel free to challenge me.
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| seawolf17 Oct 30 2010 07:41 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I only beat Edgy by about 200 just now, so I'm ready.
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| Ceetar Nov 03 2010 02:01 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I'm ready to dive back into the virtual-scrabble circuit now post 2-week vactation/honeymoon/wedding thing. Expect to be challenged if you're my virtual-friend and I remember your name, and/or go ahead and challenge me. www.facebook.com/ceetar
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| metsmarathon Nov 03 2010 02:13 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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in one of my games today, i had a rack of FUCKMEN
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| Fman99 Nov 03 2010 03:55 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Yeah I had MANBITS the other day and wanted to play that one.
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| Chad Ochoseis Nov 03 2010 06:06 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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From a recent game with LWFS...
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Nov 03 2010 06:47 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I'd like to solve the puzzle now, Pat.
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| seawolf17 Nov 05 2010 08:52 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Battling Willets now, and I'm going to lose, but I'm not happy about it. I had a walk-off grand slam phonied off the board, and I know it's a word. Not cool, Scrabble.
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| Fman99 Dec 04 2010 09:00 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Just challenged a whole bunch of youse
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| Edgy DC Dec 04 2010 09:52 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I'm just a terrible player right now.
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| Ceetar Dec 04 2010 10:35 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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scared of me or something?
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| Fman99 Dec 05 2010 05:18 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Them's fightin words!
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| TheOldMole Dec 05 2010 07:13 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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There'ssomething wrong with my Scrabble interface and I can't challenge anyone, so I'm open to being challenged.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Dec 05 2010 08:31 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Same issue I've been having for months. Also can't see stats anymore. For a while I was able to start a new game by rematching an archived match but they don;t always come up anymore either. There is a workaround involving cutting and pasting the right urls on the scrabble discussion but I'd prefer they just fixed the issue.
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| Kong76 Dec 05 2010 12:47 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I welcome invites as well .. I suck, play slow some days, but
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| Edgy DC Dec 05 2010 02:19 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Or... we can establish a new place to play.
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| metsmarathon Dec 05 2010 02:38 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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but... facebook works with my ipod...
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| seawolf17 Dec 12 2010 06:41 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I just walkoff bingoed marathon with SQUARER.
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| metsmarathon Dec 12 2010 06:49 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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well. i sure set it up nicely for you.... i thought that lead woulda been safe. sigh..
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| seawolf17 Dec 12 2010 06:49 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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| TheOldMole Dec 12 2010 06:57 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Lunchie - how does the workaround work?
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Dec 12 2010 07:44 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I haven't tried it yet but it is described in the 5th or 6th post in this thread:
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Dec 12 2010 07:55 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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now that's a walkoff. you have my respect sir.
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| Edgy DC Dec 12 2010 08:07 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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That's heavy metal thunda.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Dec 12 2010 08:13 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Otoh, he skipped twice while waiting for it to appear. I'm gonna subtract a few awesome points for that.
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| metsmarathon Dec 12 2010 08:16 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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those were apparently phonies that he skipped.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Dec 12 2010 08:27 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Well sure. Cough
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| Edgy DC Dec 13 2010 07:03 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I can see him trying to come up with abominations like QUEARS/XIS on the bottom row.
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| seawolf17 Dec 13 2010 07:53 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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First one was QUEARS/XIS; second one was SQUARER/AREALITY.
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| Willets Point Dec 13 2010 07:58 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I'm getting tired of bingoing on my first turn and then getting I's, U's, R's & N's on all my subsequent turns. It's better to suck from the get go than to watch my lead erode to nothing.
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| Edgy DC Dec 13 2010 08:09 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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See, I'm playiing so poorly right now, I can totally see how others are screwing up by thinking of what I would do. There has to be a way I can turn that Bad Scrabble Clairvoyance to my advantage.
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| seawolf17 Dec 13 2010 08:16 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I realized on the second one that because I was so far behind, my only hope to win was a big bingo. I could have played off a shorter word, but I figured it was worth risking the phony and if it failed, hoping that a spot opened up.
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| Edgy DC Dec 13 2010 08:21 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Of course, if the game worked correctly, not only would your opponent have been forced to challenge your word to knock it off (maybe he has the guts, maybe not), but if he did, you'd be scrod, because he'd know what you're holding and never play AVE.
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| Edgy DC Dec 13 2010 09:48 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Good game with Lunchbucket. I just ran out of bullets at the end. I think I'm finding my zone again.
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| TheOldMole Dec 14 2010 01:01 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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It works! I just tried it.
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| TheOldMole Dec 14 2010 01:09 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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And here's the kicker. Once you've done it, it breaks the hex, and you can start games the regular way again.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Dec 14 2010 01:15 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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ooooh, will try now
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| A Boy Named Seo Dec 15 2010 10:01 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Can't get into the game at all today (thru FB or the mobile app). Just me?
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| seawolf17 Dec 15 2010 10:02 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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FB app says they're doing some sort of maintenance.
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| Ceetar Dec 15 2010 10:12 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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is the mobile app free?
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| A Boy Named Seo Dec 15 2010 10:25 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Don't wanna.
I think I paid like $3 for it (iPhone), but think it's free or a buck now. No flash obviously on iphone. Hadn't used it in a while, but current version has crashed on me several times the last coupla days. Still more than alright, tho.
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| Ceetar Dec 15 2010 01:15 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Yes, but what's the name of the damn thing?
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| metsmarathon Dec 15 2010 02:27 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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scrabble.
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| Willets Point Dec 15 2010 03:13 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Currently accepting challenges. Or I can challenge you if you prefer.
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| A Boy Named Seo Dec 15 2010 05:02 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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What mm said. Here's the link, Ceets.
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| A Boy Named Seo Dec 15 2010 05:10 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Sent!
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| seawolf17 Dec 15 2010 06:04 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I'll throw some challenges around tonight too.
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| seawolf17 Dec 15 2010 06:11 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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And, interestingly, it looks like they just (today!) released "Scrabble Free," so you can save yourself the $2.99 and check it out. I just dl'ed it.
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| Ceetar Dec 15 2010 09:25 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I'm gonna blame Zuma Blitz for frying my brain. I don't have an iPhone (well, I have a TouchCeetar, but not 3g) my phone's an android, and doesn't seem to have the scrabble app.
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| metsmarathon Dec 16 2010 06:37 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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i dont have an iphone either. i use my marathontouch. instead of 3g, it connects with wifi.
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| Willets Point Dec 21 2010 07:46 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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I want a keyboard like this to play SCRABBLE online:
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| seawolf17 Dec 21 2010 08:18 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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All you iPodders, go download Scrabble Blast. They just released it; it's like Boggle meets Scrabble.
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| Fman99 Dec 21 2010 11:59 AM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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Same here, opened it up and challenged ABNS to a game. Looks pretty good, ads notwithstanding.
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| seawolf17 Dec 21 2010 12:26 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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You can't name the games on the mobile app, so all of my challenges that I put forth the other day are "SCRABBLE WITH CHRIS" -- I'm on a third round with one friend, so it's now "SCRABBLE WITH CHRIS REMATCH REMATCH." Sounds like a bad Japanese translation of a movie sequel.
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| Edgy DC Feb 12 2011 08:11 PM Re: Scrabbling 2010 |
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In a slugfest with Willets (through four turns, anyhow), I just got away with playing PURTY.
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