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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.

Funny to think back to a time when playing scrabble online warranted an exclamation mark.

I've been binging for a couple of weeks on Pogo--going to try my best to stop for a while. I'd kept away for a year before that. I tend to fall back into it when I'm feeling a lot of stress at work. It's got to be the most idiotic addiction in the world.

After four or five years away, I stupidly started playing on the Internet Scrabble Club again. Stupid because of how addictive it is with me. When it comes to online scrabble, I’m what’s referred to, in a Scorsese film, as a degenerate gambler.

It’s much harder now to get your rating up than it used to be. I went through seven or eight accounts before--I’d quit for a while, then come back with a new username--and I would always manage to get my rating up to 1,500 before leaving. I can’t do that now, even though I’m better than I used to be. I’ll get a little over 1,400, then I’ll drop back. The other players are just too good.

You still get the occasional fraud. I won’t quit a game, no matter how badly I’m behind. I’ve quit once in 800+ games. It was against this player who was clearly using some kind of program. In a three- or four-minute game, this guy (or woman) was laying bingos left and right—four in the first 90 seconds. Making bingos is to be expected; if I get good letters and an open board, it’s not that unusual for me to make two or three in a short game. But it’s also the kind of bingos that’s a giveaway. Almost all of mine fall into one of three categories: “-ers” words (e.g., “jumpers”), “-ier” words (e.g., “mintier”), or “-ing” words. The first one this guy made was “agitable.” Okay, fine--those are common letters, that’d be one you could memorize easily. There were a couple more unusual ones after that. He changed letters at one point, I played, and then he instantaneously laid down “judoists” over a triple-triple for almost 200 points. “Judoists”? It’s a legitimate word--we were playing automatic validation--but give me a break. The human mind just doesn’t pick that word out in a split-second (least of all a player with a ~1,200 rating). So I left the game.

Tried mallese--what everyone speaks in Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Clueless--on Pogo. Didn't fly.

My favourite ever Scrabble moment was when I turned FELINES into WIFELINESS

Specifically to play a friend--who in the end wasn't able to set up an account--I stupidly went back on isc.ro for a few weeks. The level of a play is ridiculous now. 10 years ago, I went through four or five accounts, always bringing my rating to 1500 before starting a new one. About five years ago I returned, and I couldn't get the rating over 1400. I've got to be 50% better than I was 10 years ago (hundreds and hundreds of games on Pogo), but I'm bailing again at 1307. I'm constantly playing people with ratings of 1100 or 1200 who a) have peak ratings of 1500/1600/1700 a few years ago, and b) lay bingos left and right. If you get caught up in it like I do, it's just too nerve-wracking.

I was playing someone a few days ago, rating of ~1150. I was up about 50 points, I had a play, and she had seven letters left. I looked at her letters and they were very un-bingo like: the 'q' was in there, also an 'm'; she had a blank, but it looked like a total jumble. Just to be sure, I played something at the bottom of the board so my last letter was part of the bingo lane--she'd now have to build on my letter.

In about one second flat--she obviously had her word and needed one extra letter from me--she lays "quagmire" across a triple-triple for 203 points. That's what you get from an 1150 player on there now.

Just Pogo, but played "executed" across a triple-triple for 262 points, which I think is the most I've ever had for a single play.

Crazily, the https://isc.ro/ site mentioned upthread still exists and I've created a new account!

Unchanged from 2002 from what I can see...

Definitely still there. See my post three up--haven't been back since.

Cool. what's your account id? I'm ScrabOX3.

I just got a notice yesterday on my Scrabble app yesterday that come June all ratings are getting wiped clean and a new system will be in place

anybody know what this is about?

kudos clemenza!