Play Scrabble Online!

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!

GG: verlander. I said I wouldn't go back, and I've managed not to, but I'm okay with having a game with someone specific if you can pick a time. (I know this sounds ridiculous, but I have a real addiction problem.)

That's amazing clemenza

My highest play is WANGLERS for 167

The play I'm most proud of though is when I bingo'd with FELINES and then turned it into WIFELINESS a few turns later

*Ctrl-F* ah I posted about that already, well, I was very proud

Re: the notice, it was tl;dr, but basically EA's stepping out of Scrabble and new version (Scrabble GO) from Scopely (which includes in-app purchases?) takes over in June.

My highest is CYANIDES for 158. You all are monsters.

In App Store now, but requires iOS 10+. Hello, darkness, my old iPad 3.

The old EA app was okay. Replicated the board game with reasonable faithfulness. I am sweetly sad that it is going away.

Scrabble Go is a garish mess, with loads of mini-games and mini-challenges and pointless levels and a baroque metasystem of gems / money / points / badges / leagues / tickets. Meant to be both opaque and addictive a la Candy Crush etc. It also very much incentivizes connecting to your Facebook friends or whatever, as opposed to playing as an anonymous guest.

There is still a decent game underneath all this colorful filigree, and I've had one or two opponents who did all right against me. But I'm at like a 98% win rate so I wanna hang back until it gets enough refugees from the old EA app who can actually play strategically.

ha xp

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So I read up on the Scopely reboot and of course it fucking sucks and like everything else simple and good in the world has to be made ugly and complicated and thoroughly monetized

It looks like Candy Crush or some shit with all kinds of lights and pastel buttons and avatars, w/ ads and "social component" and interruptive "mini-games" and incentivized gold fucking tokens and leveling up etc.