as for literati, i welcome all challengers. I'd watch out for JuliaA.
― gygax! (gygax!), Saturday, 28 August 2004 16:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Carey (Carey), Saturday, 28 August 2004 17:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 28 August 2004 17:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― edward o (edwardo), Saturday, 28 August 2004 21:03 (nineteen years ago) link
(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)
― caitlin (caitlin), Saturday, 28 August 2004 21:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― edward o (edwardo), Saturday, 28 August 2004 21:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Saturday, 28 August 2004 21:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― edward o (edwardo), Saturday, 28 August 2004 21:30 (nineteen years ago) link
(anicut is my favourite obscure word at the moment)
― caitlin (caitlin), Saturday, 28 August 2004 21:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 28 August 2004 21:35 (nineteen years ago) link
i'm 2290.
― gygax! (gygax!), Saturday, 28 August 2004 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ian c=====8 (orion), Saturday, 28 August 2004 21:51 (nineteen years ago) link
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...
― JuliaA (j_bdules), Saturday, 28 August 2004 21:58 (nineteen years ago) link
Literati people accuse me of cheating, so I stopped playing it.
― edward o (edwardo), Saturday, 28 August 2004 22:02 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 28 August 2004 22:09 (nineteen years ago) link
Those kind of words are fairly easy to pick up on with time, Martin...we should play sometime!
― JuliaA (j_bdules), Saturday, 28 August 2004 22:12 (nineteen years ago) link
* 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.
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 28 August 2004 22:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Carey (Carey), Saturday, 28 August 2004 22:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― JuliaA (j_bdules), Saturday, 28 August 2004 23:07 (nineteen years ago) link
Christ, Gygax, next time I want an asskicking I'll look you up.
― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 28 August 2004 23:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 28 August 2004 23:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― nabiscothingy, Wednesday, 31 August 2005 19:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― merritt ranew (merritt), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 20:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 20:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― merritt ranew (merritt), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 21:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― JTS, Thursday, 1 September 2005 00:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 1 September 2005 00:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 1 September 2005 00:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 1 September 2005 01:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― merritt ranew (merritt), Thursday, 1 September 2005 01:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Sunday, 20 August 2006 10:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Scourage (Haberdager), Sunday, 20 August 2006 10:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Sunday, 20 August 2006 12:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― akk (akk), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 16:24 (seventeen years ago) link
actually, that's pretty much why i don't play online anymore.
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― A. Lingbert (A. Lingbert), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 03:19 (seventeen years ago) link
I haven't really played much since Edward O annihilated me in the ILX Literati tourney. :(
― Danny Aioli (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 03:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― aaron d.g. (aaron d.g.), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 04:09 (seventeen years ago) link
These are fun.
― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Friday, 2 January 2009 19:54 (fifteen years ago) link
fuck this shithttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1263658/Scrabble-change-rules-allow-names-time-games-62-year-history.html
― ✌.✰|ʘ‿ʘ|✰.✌ (Steve Shasta), Monday, 5 April 2010 18:54 (thirteen years ago) link
reads like it shouldve come out on april 1st
― johnny crunch, Monday, 5 April 2010 19:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Clearly a crime against nature.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 16:24 (thirteen years ago) link
such fucking bullshit
― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 16:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Mattel can eat a bag of tiles imho.
― my full government name (WmC), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 16:37 (thirteen years ago) link
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?"
― falling while carrying an owl (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 18:01 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/04/06/article-1263658-09041212000005DC-451_233x453.jpg
lol at Daily Mail
― Wood shavings! Laughing out loud! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 18:02 (thirteen years ago) link
If you insist.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 18:03 (thirteen years ago) link
u guys can still play by the old rules btw
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 18:04 (thirteen years ago) link
is there a name with both a Q and a Z in it, btw
― Wood shavings! Laughing out loud! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 18:06 (thirteen years ago) link
quizno's
― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 18:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Scrabble Go accepts the word "grrrl".
Just thought you should know.
― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 18:18 (one year 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