ha that is great, I love that the app enables some official validation
― John Wesley Glasscock (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 02:59 (three years ago) link
Not only did she draw two z's and a q, but also the necessary u, plus some other nice vowels and an s. Her word play was excellent, but her tile draw was off the charts and over the moon.
― Compromise isn't a principle, it's a method (Aimless), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 04:14 (three years ago) link
I think best of all, it's not some obscure word that no one has ever heard of.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 13:16 (three years ago) link
Classic until somebody starts trying to tell me I can't have Antinazi cos they want it to need a hyphen.Gorlumme what a complete load of tosh. plenitude of irrational convolution, like.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 13:20 (three years ago) link
After almost 20 years and approximately ___________ games of online Scrabble (too embarrassed to fill that in), first time I ever played "gumshoe."
https://phildellio.tripod.com/gumshoe.jpg
― clemenza, Thursday, 4 March 2021 03:43 (three years ago) link
Scrabble Go accepts the word "grrrl".
Just thought you should know.
― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 18:18 (two years ago) link
This has happened to me before, and it's pretty much the best evidence I can think of that you play way, way too much Scrabble: you're looking at f-l-o-w-e-r-s on your rack, and your first thought is "Is that a word? Someone or something that flows?"
― clemenza, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 23:21 (one year ago) link
There is a great story in Gwen Raverat's "Period Piece," her memoir of growing up in the Darwin household, where they're playing anagrams and Charles Darwin wanders through, looks at the board and goes "Moth-er? There's no such word as "moth-er."
― Lily Dale, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 01:44 (one year ago) link
Sounds about right. You just start to see words differently, automatically breaking them down into recognizable building blocks, and four-letter-verb + "ers" are the easiest bingos to spot, hence "flow-ers."
― clemenza, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 02:48 (one year ago) link