I'd been staying away from Facebook Scrabble.  I was ill for ages with the vertigo and could only manage turns every couple of weeks when my brain was in gear. Then, just as I was starting to get back to something approaching normal, it deleted all my games (many of which were getting near to a well-fought finish) as a side-effect of a crappy bug- ( Read more... )

My apologies to my Scrabble opponents, both those who were close to winning and those who were close to losing ( Read more... )

A general reminder ( Read more... )

Today's Scrabble made me smile.  One of my friends played 'shag' and another scored well with 'yoni'...

Both people who would never use such words to me in normal life, but in Scrabble, all words are assessed solely (and cheerfully) on their point score.

Naturally, I'm reminded of one of my favourite XKCD strips.

I think people partly got the wrong idea.

I wasn't frustrated just becasue I was losing, but because I was facing a player who didn't seem to be putting any thought into the game.  Having realised why I was losing - board too blocked - I sacrificed a blank to create some open space and am now over a hundred points in the lead.

I'm still frustrated.  ( Read more... )

I'm having one of the most frustrating Scrabble games of my life.

Owing to some bug in Scrabble Worldwide, instead of a game with megamole , it set me up with someone else.  As the other person seemed quite happy to play, I decided to continue with the game.

She's an absolutely terrible player (14% wins in 157 games), though I realised she was bad from her ( Read more... )

Trying to get a decent Scrabble game these days is a real gamble.( What current options are there for playing email Scrabble? )

I'm definitely getting better at Scrabble. Yesterday, I decided not to put down a word worth 20 points as I was really close to having a rack that might make a seven-letter word. The gamble paid off. I picked up two very good letters and was able to put down a 72 point word today.

A month ago, I would never have done that.

I'm also becoming far ( Read more... )

I've just had 'avizes' played against me.  This word isn't defined in any Scrabble dictionary I could find (though it is agreed to be in SOWPODS).  Even the OED couldn't find it ( Read more... )

Just as LJ can't understand words like itemise, neither can the TWL word list in Scrabble.  Life is simpler when everything ends in ize, but they're not the spellings I grew up with ( Read more... )