John Robertson and I went on community television on Wednesday morning to promote our upcoming tournaments; we played a game Tuesday night to see if we could get any good game positions to demonstrate on-air. The endgame was good enough to be our demonstration position. Can you find the best play? The board is behind the cut.
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GENERAL

How did you get into the game? Well, back when I was 11, I was always striving to become as good as I could at board games. I read strategy books for Monopoly, and Joel Wapnick's strategy book was available at the library. I checked it out, read it, and decided that I would try to learn the OSPD. I got the twos down -- and my family refused ( Read more... )

Well, not really, I'm just being facetious ( Read more... )

"And I would bus 500 miles, and I would bus 500 more / Just be the man who went 1000 miles to put tiles on your board..."
So, what possesses somebody to travel for over 500 miles each way for a single day of Scrabble?

I'm still not quite sure of that answer, to be honest.

But at about 11:00 on Saturday morning, I had a thought. "I'm not ( Read more... )

I'm not going to lie. I'm still feeling a little shocked over Saturday.
As many of you have heard, I was held up at the border. I was taking a bus in from St. Catharines, scheduled to arrive in Buffalo at 9:10.

We'd hit construction-related traffic outside of Niagara Falls and pulled up at the Peace Bridge at 9:10. Traffic was backed up all ( Read more... )

All I'm going to post now is a bingo list. Full report will come later...

Mine (10):

GrOUTED
NUDITIE(S)
fORMU(L)AE
WAIT(E)rED
RETAILS
STRANDs
PREVIEW
NUdiSTS
TANNERS
(O)VeRSMUG*

Theirs (5):

pINTOES
HELIAST
(R)ATCHETS
ROMAINe (2x2)
LONGTER(M)*

Which SamBoard should I put out for my Brock Scrabble display at tomorrow morning's Club Fair at Brock?

- my Acryclic one
- my Wood one

Respond in the comments. I'd create a poll, but I don't want to upgrade to an account with ads.

Just finished the first evening session of the Albany main event ( Read more... )

I wasn't going to post one of these for a little while, but I got a request...

Did you all hear about Jello's new slogan? "Don't let your dessert life take a back seat." Well, Pfizer wasn't too impressed with this, and decided to take Kraft Foods to court. When the Wall Street Journal caught wind of it, the article was headlined...

GELATIN'S ( Read more... )

Some people draw comics, I'm going to write some very short jokes - hopefully I'll be able to remember anagram groups this way.

So...

Did you ever hear about that climate-controlled utopian society whose leadership always kept the temperature about 20 degrees too hot? Well, the yuppies in this society just felt no other recourse, and thus banded ( Read more... )