Scrabble - Classic or Dud?

i will kick ALL your asses

also, how can I be quite good at Scrabble, but not too good at Clive Doig's Trackword.

as for literati, i welcome all challengers. I'd watch out for JuliaA.

(partly, I was pissed off because if I'd put *my* first word one space to the side he wouldn't have got the triple word score)

(it was MORAINES, I think)

(anicut is my favourite obscure word at the moment)

i'm 2290.

Games.com has a good scrabble site, though sometimes it gets cranky and is difficult to get into. I've been playing on there most lately, when I play.

Shit, gygax, that's a really fucking good rating. I don't think I ever got much above 2150 or so at literati. I'm 1962 now, or something like that. So, no need to watch out for me lately...though I'm always up for a game.

I had "leucines" once in literati, and was so proud. For just a moment, my sci education amounted to something...

Literati people accuse me of cheating, so I stopped playing it.

I'd like to play some good players sometime, and I bet there are many on here. I've never like studied any Scrabble dictionaries or learnt words with Q, Z, X and J in them or anything like that, which I suspect means really good and serious players might wipe the floor with me.

Those kind of words are fairly easy to pick up on with time, Martin...we should play sometime!

* time limits on my ISP deal, plus I'm generally doing a couple of things at once most of the time I'm online (browsing ILX, FT, other things; talking on AIM to a couple of people; answering emails), meaning either I'll miss time limits or keep an opponent waiting an unconscionable amount of time.

Christ, Gygax, next time I want an asskicking I'll look you up.

actually, that's pretty much why i don't play online anymore.

I haven't really played much since Edward O annihilated me in the ILX Literati tourney. :(

These are fun.

fuck this shit
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1263658/Scrabble-change-rules-allow-names-time-games-62-year-history.html

reads like it shouldve come out on april 1st

Clearly a crime against nature.

such fucking bullshit

Mattel can eat a bag of tiles imho.

is there going to be an official list of allowable proper nouns, or can we expect a lot more conversations like "oh man, you don't remember Zxjktmpf Jackson from high school? he was a total bro, too bad he died mysteriously the week before Facebook was invented. anyhow, that's my rack cleared across two triple word scores, you wanna add that up?"

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/04/06/article-1263658-09041212000005DC-451_233x453.jpg

lol at Daily Mail

If you insist.

(xpost) I've been off isc.ro for months, but let me know if you ever want to play (I'm verlander).

A friend made me a Scrabble quilt.

https://i.postimg.cc/Nfd5DQxk/IMG-5309.jpg

Scrabble Go accepts the word "asshat".

Just thought you should know.

But does it accept "cockfarmer?"

I still occasionally pop open Psion Scrabble in a ZX Spectrum emulator and have a best-of-three:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/4375/ZX-Spectrum/Computer_Scrabble

What with Scrabble still being a commercial thing there aren't any easy ways to play a versus-the-computer, without-adverts version of Scrabble, and I'm so bad at Scrabble that a ZX Spectrum can still beat me. It's one of a tiny handful of ZX Spectrum games that hasn't really aged, along with Chaos and... I can't think of a third. Because it's just a board game. I've tried online Scrabble, but it just degenerates into a game of who can remember the most two-letter words. Besides which it's hard to have an emotional connection with people behind a screen, whereas there are few things more cuddly than a ZX Spectrum.

I remember going to play "taser" at one point. And then it came to me. The game was published in 1982! The vocabulary doesn't have "taser". Or "faxes", even though faxes were technically a thing in 1982. There's a whole bunch of words from the 1980s and 1990s that it doesn't recognise because it's ancient. "Blog", for example, or "queef". Sadly the game uses a for-its-time advanced compression scheme to fit a whole dictionary into 48kb, so you can't just POKE new words into the dictionary.

Psion Scrabble uses the cursor keys, which are 5678. The ZX Spectrum had a bunch of joystick standards. The cursor keys were shift-5678 (left, down, up, right), so there was a Cursor joystick that just emulated those keystrokes. And confusingly there was an Interface II joystick that used 6789 (left, right, down, up), because Sinclair wanted to sell its own joysticks. There's a whole generation of British and Spanish people my age who had to deal with the switch from QAOP+Space and Kempston/Sinclair joysticks to WASD+Mouse, and I like to think that we are a cut above the average person.

A cut above, because it's not toughness or intelligence that guarantees survival. It's adaptability. Women desire my seed not because I'm tough, or intelligent, but because I am equally skilled with QAOP, 5678, 6789, and WASD+Mouse controls. It took me a long time to get used to dual analogue sticks, but I managed it. I have no doubt that I would be able to cope with a VR headset. Meanwhile swimmers such as Michael Phelps are moron losers because all they can do is flip their fucking feet around. Big woo!

i've been playing someone with dn LesterBangs in crossplay (the nyt scrabble app). is it one of you guys? you're kicking my ass if so

Funny...I played "bespoke" yesterday on Pogo, no blanks; first time ever.

https://i.postimg.cc/KvypT4DM/bespoke.jpg