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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.

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.

Respect!!

<3 this thread and all Scrabblers.

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.

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.

played 'jejune' in words w friends

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.

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.

Where do you play online scrabble if you don't have nor want a FB account?

your rack is S K W E R A N and it is your turn to play

I thought there might be a place that hasn't been colonised by the fungick skewrans.

Xelab: try the Internet Scrabble Club (isc.ro). But don't even think about it if you are in the least bit prone to addictive behaviour. Seriously.

don't do it man, don't do it

Thanks for that clemenza, it is perfect!

I should have also mentioned that you'll run into some fungick skewrans on there, too, especially in the 1000-1400 range. Most people are fine, but there are a few psychotics. (I used to know who to avoid, but that was a few years ago, and there's lots of turnover.) If you're ever playing someone who's not able to respond to you in the chat window, that's a good indication he's had problems in that area. To be completely honest, I had my moments, too, which is why I eventually stopped playing people and limited myself to computers.

At least there are no adverts and no fucking FB people - that is perfect! The rest is Humanity %-)

^gets it

Oh sorry, a dog appears to have commandeered my computer. Shoo!

The best ones just play scrabble, the ones that go beyond just saying hi do my nut in, but yeah this is really good. extremely addictive yes!

Let me know if you ever want to play a non-rated game.

Best opening bingo ever, against Pogo computer: buxomer. There it was, staring me in the face on my--sorry--opening rack.

wwf: galeazzo

come at me

i'm kinda shitty tho. people keeping dropping those half-sideways multiple kinds of plays on me and i NEVER see them

there is no mercy in scrabble

I had a 168-point word in WWF last month. Wish I'd taken a screen shot.

(xpost) When you start laying bingos on someone, it's literally like you're dunking over them. It's amazing how much of an intimidation game it is.

i need to bone up on my Lexicon of Bullshit Two and Three Letter Words too tbf

I try to drop "qi," "za," "xu," and "jo" into my everyday conversation as often as possible.

kinda felt like crying as a friend dropped four bingos on me in one game recently. final score of 590-389. p rough to get a fairly respectable score and still come out over 200 points down.

I had a few rage-quitters recently, calling me a cheat etc.. not just for two letter words but obscure ones. The miserable fuckers!

no mercy

Best recent plays (vs. Pogo computer): "cocaine" and "estrogen" for bingos, and "rascally"--tagged on the suffix--for a triple-word score. (Turns out it begins with r, not w.)

Not allowed: "proggier."

Had an open "-ox" yesterday adjacent to an open "-ode," joined them with an "l": lox and lode. In another game, I was trying unsuccessfully to find a place for "foggier," couldn't, then spotted an open "r" up top. Sure, why not? It worked: "froggier" is an actual word.

I play this game way, way too much.

don't apologize, froggier is a kick-ass word

Now don't get all froggier than thou on me.

had SYNERGY in wwf but couldnt place it :(

sounds like you didn't

I've basically kicked isc.ro--haven't been on for close to two years. Now fighting Pogo addiction. I set the bar for a good game there at 500 points; the computer never bingos (although it is programmed to play a somewhat smart end-game), and if you match a blank on the board, you can "steal" the blank back. I probably explained this upthread somewhere. I've had numerous funny/weird bingos, but can't think of them right now.

lol 2002: "Holy shit, you can play Scrabble on the internet!"

was playing a rando in wwf, think I won the very 2 first games ever played vs this person, then she proceeded to win the next 40 straight O_O

I just won the last 2 tho so watchout

I can be such a poor sport online, I would've cursed her out after about 10 straight (why I only play computers now).

heh a different rando (with a avatar pic of him in a buffalo bills sweatshirt, smiling broadly w/ his wife and cats beside him) did curse me out and accused me of cheating recently and resigned in a huff when I played 'azotes'

truthfully I like the challenge if ppl cheat, tho I never do, don't see the fun in that

no pride, no soul brother

If you suspect I'm cheating, you can resign in a huff; if you're convinced I'm cheating, make it a minute-and-a-huff.

very little is more satisfying than trailing almost all game, to an opponent who beats me at like a 5:1 ratio, & making a penultimate move that traps them & my knowing they know they cant win :)

Those are great. I just finished a game where I was trailing most of it, had to make some vowel-dump rack management moves late, but finished with GUIDANCE for 107 and the win.

"Biggie" is okay (as in, "no biggie"). "Biggied"--I biggied that motherfucker--is not.