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Tonight's Scrabble in the City will have an election theme. To be eligible for the Theme Word Prize, all you have to do is play a word that somehow ties into our upcoming elections. Possible winning entries could include: BALLOTS, PARTY, POLITICS, PRIME, MINISTER, REELECT, LIBERAL, or even TORY or VOTE. Pity NDP isn't a valid Scrabble word. ( Read more... )

Come join us tonight at Kilgour's pub for Scrabble in the CityLast week we had a New Year's Resolutions theme going, which I'd like to extend to this week's gathering. Sharon won last week's Theme Word Prize and she'll have a bevy of prizes to chose from this week, courtesy of Annette, who donated some of her leftover prizes from the recent ( Read more... )

Lucky to have made it through the Boxing Day craziness, I look forward to seeing some of you again in the new year. We'll be back on track for our Scrabble in the City on Monday, January 2nd at our usual time and place. If I get back on time.

Only a true Word Freak would spend New Year's Eve playing Scrabble. Well, this year that's me. ( Read more... )

Tomorrow (Monday) night we'll be having a special Holiday Edition of Scrabble in the City. Since Kilgour's is going to be closed on Boxing Day, this will be the last of these fun gatherings until we meet again on the first Monday of 2006 ( Read more... )

BUXOM and HORNY. Those were the most popular sexy words played at last Monday's Scrabble in the City. Considering its popularity the week before, we decided to have another romp in the sack, making our Theme Word Prizes the sexiest ever ( Read more... )

In search for a topical Theme Word at last week's Scrabble in the City night, someone suggested sex. Not instead of Scrabble, but within the confines of the game. And what an orgy of words we came up with.

In my first game, where Mick and I were paired with Lillian and Jess, we played TUP, which means "to copulate with a ewe." Really. Look it ( Read more... )

At last week's gathering, we celebrated a Canadian's recent victory at the World Scrabble Championships. Our celebration/victory Theme Word entries included GAY, DANCE, HOP, VINOS, JOINTS (sure, light one up to celebrate) PUB, SHONE, and LILYPADS*.

That last one was particularly celebratory as newcomer Lillian, along with Scrabble in the City ( Read more... )

Come join us at Kilgour's tonight for Scrabble in the City as we celebrate Canada's win at the World Scrabble Championships
this week.

Last week's Full Moon Theme Prize went to newcomer Ryan's play of HOWL, which closely beat out other players' contributions such as CRATER, UP, RABID, HUGE, WOLF, WANED and DEFANGS ( Read more... )

It's fun to see which celebrities play Scrabble.

Funny, I didn't know Kareem gave up basketball for Scrabble.

With the World Scrabble Championships imminently underway, I took a peek at the players and I'm disappointed that my third cousin, Steven Gruzd isn't representing South Africa this year (perhaps Scrabble does run in the family, although ( Read more... )