― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Thursday, 13 May 2004 08:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 13 May 2004 08:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Thursday, 13 May 2004 08:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 13 May 2004 08:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Thursday, 13 May 2004 08:49 (twenty years ago) link
― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 13 May 2004 08:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Thursday, 13 May 2004 08:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 13 May 2004 08:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 13 May 2004 09:00 (twenty years ago) link
i'm quite proud of that. simple.
― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Thursday, 13 May 2004 09:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 13 May 2004 09:07 (twenty years ago) link
― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 13 May 2004 09:08 (twenty years ago) link
I play online Scrabble through Facebook. Anyone want to play an ongoing ilx game?
I am heather nijoli robinson on FB and youc an find scrabble here: http://apps.facebook.com/ea_scrabble_closed/?ref=ts
― Kelsey Glamour (Nijoli), Sunday, 7 August 2011 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
Please don't revive threads pertaining to Scrabble--I've been off the Internet Scrabble Club for three weeks. You just popped open a beer in front of an alcoholic.
― clemenza, Sunday, 7 August 2011 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
haha!
― Nhex, Sunday, 7 August 2011 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
(looks back semi-fondly on my isc.ro days)
― Nhex, Sunday, 7 August 2011 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
Second person arrives on the scene with a six-pack. (Just kidding--it's all up to me.)
― clemenza, Sunday, 7 August 2011 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
I'll play! and with anyone else who dares, as well.
― I thought that I heard you loling, I thought that I heard you steen (crüt), Sunday, 7 August 2011 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
Clemenza, look away --
::SPOILER::
Just started games with Nijoli and Crüt!
― L.P. Hovercraft (WmC), Sunday, 7 August 2011 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
Haw.
I am now playing games with Crut and WmC.
I am starting a game with the two of you together.
ALSO, I started a game with Trayce, Ian and Laurel but Ian has yet to join it.
― Kelsey Glamour (Nijoli), Sunday, 7 August 2011 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
hmm, i don't see the invitation? i play facebook scrabs with pete & ade.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Sunday, 7 August 2011 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
i feel dissed that i have not been invited to this ilx scrabble game
― sarahel, Sunday, 7 August 2011 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
it is limited to just three invites per game. i will start a new one with you and two others...
― Kelsey Glamour (Nijoli), Sunday, 7 August 2011 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
ian - it is there. it says "awaiting players" but me, laurel and trayce have all come to the game.
― Kelsey Glamour (Nijoli), Sunday, 7 August 2011 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
I started a new one with me, sarahel and ian j
― Kelsey Glamour (Nijoli), Sunday, 7 August 2011 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
ooh. and curtis had started one with me, sarah, ian and himself. so much scrabble going on!
― Kelsey Glamour (Nijoli), Sunday, 7 August 2011 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
Thats weird, I hadnt accepted/added your request til just now, did it say I had? I didnt even have the Scrabble app installed lol :)
― Rameses Street (Trayce), Monday, 8 August 2011 02:03 (twelve years ago) link
hm i dont know if i can play it. It says us/canada only :(
― Rameses Street (Trayce), Monday, 8 August 2011 02:04 (twelve years ago) link
oh, rats
― Kelsey Glamour (Nijoli), Monday, 8 August 2011 03:02 (twelve years ago) link
ian's a pretty fierce player. i didnt take him seriously at first... big mistake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKbsdMRqhcI (Princess TamTam), Monday, 8 August 2011 03:05 (twelve years ago) link
No SOWPODS on the official game? :( I miss the Scrabulous glory days
― Dan I., Monday, 8 August 2011 03:54 (twelve years ago) link
I wanted to play, I like scrab... BOOOH.
― Rameses Street (Trayce), Monday, 8 August 2011 04:31 (twelve years ago) link
me & ade have some good games, it's true.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 8 August 2011 13:55 (twelve years ago) link
words with friends
tho the fact that you can chance words without repercussions annoys, it leads to you getting nonsense words like 'rootages' played against you for 234546 points
― less of the same (darraghmac), Sunday, 25 March 2012 14:46 (twelve years ago) link
I was as surprised as you were!
No apologies for LINSEED tho -- approx 99 bingo options in that rack.
― any major prude will tell you (WmC), Sunday, 25 March 2012 14:56 (twelve years ago) link
I looked at those letters and drew a blank. So I checked--there are only two others: "ensiled" and "enisled." (No idea what either means--I think the second one comes from the Snoop Dogg dictionary.)
― clemenza, Sunday, 25 March 2012 15:03 (twelve years ago) link
heh
― less of the same (darraghmac), Sunday, 25 March 2012 15:05 (twelve years ago) link
I laugh when Rob Ford tells everyone that his personal addictions don't affect his job performance; whenever I have an online-Scrabble-addiction relapse, that affects my job performance, and I would think that crack and alcohol might present bigger problems. I'd been off isc.ro for well over a year, stupidly went back on, then spent all week trying to work my rating up to 1500 so I could quit again. I have seven or eight accounts, and that's the bar I always set for myself--such is the logic of the addict. Anyway, took 325 games, but I managed, with ridiculously little sleep along the way. I don't know, I think I might have played WSHQ in there, who was posting upthread.
― clemenza, Saturday, 8 February 2014 21:40 (ten years ago) link
"So I could quit again"--yeah.
Had my highest score ever last week, 607. Admittedly, it was against one of ISC's lesser computers--one of the ones rated around 1,000. (Playing one of their 1,400 computers, I'll win maybe 40% of the time; playing a 1,700 computer, forget it.) They tend to leave the board wide open, and you'll occasionally get a game where they lay off for five turns in a row.
All of that aside, you still have to get the points. I didn't jot down any details--should have--but I know I had three bingos, and one of them was a triple-triple for 150+.
― clemenza, Friday, 28 February 2014 00:49 (ten years ago) link
Best recent bingos: messiah and wheelies.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 22 April 2014 01:56 (ten years ago) link
New highest score: 624. Indulge me here--I don't think I'll ever score higher.
I was again playing a low-rated computer (rating around 900). They're not terrible--I'll lose to such a computer once every 25 or 30 games. But they don't play defensively, and they have no end-games to speak of.
The final score was 624-216, and I had four bingos.
1. bored (22)2. qi (25)3. senator (68)4. dex (36)5. orating (70)6. kas (44)7. own (30)8. jagg (26)9. fun (33)10. pulleys (79)11. mom (26)12. handers (104)13. hit (22)14. blast (27)15. on (8)
Almost a perfect draw: q, x, j, k (the computer drew the z), both blanks, all four s's. A reminder of how Scrabble vocabulary has little to do with the actual world: "ki," "dex," "kas," and "jagg" for 131 points, and I have no idea what a "hander" is.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 03:06 (nine years ago) link
Set a world record today: 965 points.
Well, okay, there was a catch. The computer (I was playing on a site called Pogo) was stuck or something and passed every turn. Took me three or four turns to clue in, at which point I started exchanging and exchanging letters until I could lay a bingo. Sometimes I had to exchange 20 or 25 times--there seemed to be a limited variety of replacement letters it would give you, so I'd have to abandon one possibility for another. Final score: 965-0.
Wanted to get 1,000 points next game, and started with five or six bingos. I had to lay off next turn to open something up, at which point I was somewhere around 450 points. And then, the whole site went wonky and I wasn't able to finish.
Beating up on a computer that only passes is a little sad. I'm calling it an experiment.
― clemenza, Saturday, 19 July 2014 20:50 (nine years ago) link
Respect!!
― xelab, Saturday, 19 July 2014 21:32 (nine years ago) link
<3 this thread and all Scrabblers.
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Saturday, 19 July 2014 23:07 (nine years ago) link
ha, i hope you manage the 1k game some day. the friends i play with are always quite defensive (as am i), so we tend to end up with crammed boards that struggle to get beyond the 300s.
― Merdeyeux, Sunday, 20 July 2014 02:33 (nine years ago) link
Seriously, it was quite fraudulent. With no time limit, unlimited exchanges, and no opponent, anyone who plays semi-regularly could have done the same.
I used to play this woman on isc.ro who'd make bingos left and right if you left her a wide-open board. I think her handle was Topaz1316. She just played for bingos, didn't seem interested in anything else, so if you could close off the board towards the end, you could beat her. She laid off a lot, too, in search for that one letter she needed, so sometimes I'd just try to jump to a big enough lead that her two or three bingos wouldn't matter in the end. Because she would get them sooner or later. God, I hated losing to her, and I lost to her a lot.
― clemenza, Sunday, 20 July 2014 04:26 (nine years ago) link
played 'jejune' in words w friends
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 20 July 2014 18:50 (nine years ago) link
Wow, I totally forgot about the phenomenon of playing Scrabble via Facebook. Is it just because I don't really do Facebook anymore that that seems forever ago, even though it was likely only four or five years ago that I did that with some regularity? Or is it generally passé? I don't even really hear people talk about Words with Friends anymore.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 13 August 2014 06:15 (nine years ago) link
Never played it. I tried something called Lexulous, and it was silly. Anyway, I've been on the wagon for two whole days. I can't talk about this stuff.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 13 August 2014 14:03 (nine years ago) link
Where do you play online scrabble if you don't have nor want a FB account?
― autumn reckoning faction (xelab), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 19:46 (nine years ago) link