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Hard Scrabble

Fman99 Oct 16 2014 07:35 PM

Not working on mobile platforms. Apologies to MM and LWFS with whom I always have running games, as I have not played my turns the last couple days. Logging in now to play on my laptop as both my phone and tablet are having issues known to the Scrabble folks.

metsmarathon Oct 16 2014 09:20 PM Re: Hard Scrabble

yeah, i'm down as well. boo. i did notice there's a new wwf app. now with lifetime stats. ooh, and head to head stats. fancy!

John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 16 2014 09:54 PM Re: Hard Scrabble

They didn't fix the issue of there being too many A's and H's, however.

Ceetar Oct 17 2014 10:23 AM Re: Hard Scrabble

metsmarathon wrote: yeah, i'm down as well. boo. i did notice there's a new wwf app. now with lifetime stats. ooh, and head to head stats. fancy! I deadbeated about 6 months ago but lifetime stats drags me back in. Feel free to send the challenges my way in WWF. (I can't handle the Facebook scrabble or the app associated with it. they both suck with load times and all that)

Mets – Willets Point Oct 17 2014 10:29 AM Re: Hard Scrabble

I haven't had time to play much Scrabble lately, although I'd happily be sucked into another tournament.

seawolf17 Oct 17 2014 11:24 AM Re: Hard Scrabble

I continue to be all in on WWF. Love the new app, and their stats are awesome. I played Scrabble last weekend and it took me half the game to adjust.

Ceetar Oct 17 2014 11:25 AM Re: Hard Scrabble

seawolf17 wrote: I continue to be all in on WWF. Love the new app, and their stats are awesome. I played Scrabble last weekend and it took me half the game to adjust. Well I will issue you a game then. You'll be the second former Jeopardy player I've challenged today.

seawolf17 Oct 17 2014 11:26 AM Re: Hard Scrabble

Ceetar wrote: seawolf17 wrote: I continue to be all in on WWF. Love the new app, and their stats are awesome. I played Scrabble last weekend and it took me half the game to adjust. Well I will issue you a game then. You'll be the second former Jeopardy player I've challenged today. And almost definitely in second place of the two of us in all-time winnings.

Ceetar Oct 17 2014 11:32 AM Re: Hard Scrabble

seawolf17 wrote: seawolf17 wrote: I continue to be all in on WWF. Love the new app, and their stats are awesome. I played Scrabble last weekend and it took me half the game to adjust. Well I will issue you a game then. You'll be the second former Jeopardy player I've challenged today. And almost definitely in second place of the two of us in all-time winnings. well, to be fair he's probably in top 10-15 so you'd be in second anyway.

seawolf17 Oct 17 2014 11:35 AM Re: Hard Scrabble

Who are you friends with that I apparently should have gotten to know five years ago?

Ceetar Oct 17 2014 11:44 AM Re: Hard Scrabble

seawolf17 wrote: Who are you friends with that I apparently should have gotten to know five years ago? More recent than you. Jason Keller. I though you commented on the thread when I posted on Facebook about him when it happened. I have to say, watching a Jeopardy episode with the guy that actually wins that episode when it airs is..an interesting experience.

Edgy MD Oct 17 2014 11:45 AM Re: Hard Scrabble

Not that I should be giving toy-and-game super corporation Hasbro any great ideas, but Hard-Scrabble would make a HYEWJ-ly popular reality TV show, that would be doubly successful in that the whole season would be one long advertisement for the game. Basically an extension of the film Word Wars, you follow a bunch of fringy competitive Scrabble players around the circuit, playing for pride and tiny purses, disappointing their families and their girlfriends terribly in pursuit of their DREAM, hating the champs that are just out their reach, backstabbing each other, occasionally having the cathartic release of laying down DROSOPHILIA for 144 points, only to come smashing down in ignoble defeat the next game. It's a license to print money, and I just gave it away.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Oct 17 2014 01:21 PM Re: Hard Scrabble

See, I hear "Hard Scrabble," and I think Basketball Diaries/Go Ask Alice/Permanent Midnight-style down-the-rabbit-hole memoir of hard-consonant addiction and families lost to Triple-Letter ZA benders.

Fman99 Oct 17 2014 07:39 PM Re: Hard Scrabble

Edgy MD wrote: Not that I should be giving toy-and-game super corporation Hasbro any great ideas, but Hard-Scrabble would make a HYEWJ-ly popular reality TV show, that would be doubly successful in that the whole season would be one long advertisement for the game. Basically an extension of the film Word Wars, you follow a bunch of fringy competitive Scrabble players around the circuit, playing for pride and tiny purses, disappointing their families and their girlfriends terribly in pursuit of their DREAM, hating the champs that are just out their reach, backstabbing each other, occasionally having the cathartic release of laying down DROSOPHILIA for 144 points, only to come smashing down in ignoble defeat the next game. It's a license to print money, and I just gave it away. Reminds me of some of the fringe elements described in this book, enjoyable reading for anyone who's ever tilted a wooden tile rack.

Edgy MD Oct 17 2014 09:02 PM Re: Hard Scrabble

Just slammed down CROSTIN=#0000FF]O. Bless you borrowed words.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 17 2014 09:28 PM Re: Hard Scrabble

Fman99 wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Not that I should be giving toy-and-game super corporation Hasbro any great ideas, but Hard-Scrabble would make a HYEWJ-ly popular reality TV show, that would be doubly successful in that the whole season would be one long advertisement for the game. Basically an extension of the film Word Wars, you follow a bunch of fringy competitive Scrabble players around the circuit, playing for pride and tiny purses, disappointing their families and their girlfriends terribly in pursuit of their DREAM, hating the champs that are just out their reach, backstabbing each other, occasionally having the cathartic release of laying down DROSOPHILIA for 144 points, only to come smashing down in ignoble defeat the next game. It's a license to print money, and I just gave it away. Reminds me of some of the fringe elements described in this book, enjoyable reading for anyone who's ever tilted a wooden tile rack. That book was the Big Bang of my Scrabblin career, and referenced in the Original CPF Scrabble thread, celebrating its 10th anniversary this year! [url]http://web.archive.org/web/20051120195917/http://p079.ezboard.com/fthecranepoolforumfrm34.showMessageRange?topicID=4.topic&start=1&stop=20

Edgy MD Oct 17 2014 09:51 PM Re: Hard Scrabble

That thread references Paul DePodesta years before anyone dreamed he'd be building a golden minor league system for the Mets.

Ceetar Oct 20 2014 12:20 PM Re: Hard Scrabble

this is not going well.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 20 2014 12:57 PM Re: Hard Scrabble

Typical WWF board right there: 2 H's on your rack, only 1 realistic meaningful bonus square in reach. (maybe 2).

Ceetar Oct 20 2014 01:02 PM Re: Hard Scrabble

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Typical WWF board right there: 2 H's on your rack, only 1 realistic meaningful bonus square in reach. (maybe 2). he dropped a WO on the TW spot to make it 234-90. Jeopardy aside, he's active in the competitive scrabble world so I'm really just asking for it here.

Frayed Knot Oct 20 2014 01:03 PM Re: Hard Scrabble

Be bold. Play HERD off that DL square next to AS and get that H doubled 4 times (although I see H is only worth 3 pts here so not as good as I originally thought) but it's worth some points, it cleans up your rack a bit, and if it opens up some scoring opportunities for the other guy then it does. Conservatively played SCRABBLE (or similar) games suck.

Ceetar Oct 24 2014 02:58 PM Re: Hard Scrabble

Playing randoms off WWF-Tinder is fun.

Fman99 Oct 24 2014 07:43 PM Re: Hard Scrabble

Scrabble is now working at least on Android systems, so I can play on my tablet. Just not my phone.

Fman99 Oct 25 2014 09:44 AM Re: Hard Scrabble

Fixed, finally, for iPhones. Game on!