Scrabble - Classic or Dud?

actually, that's pretty much why i don't play online anymore.

I haven't really played much since Edward O annihilated me in the ILX Literati tourney. :(

These are fun.

fuck this shit
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1263658/Scrabble-change-rules-allow-names-time-games-62-year-history.html

reads like it shouldve come out on april 1st

Clearly a crime against nature.

such fucking bullshit

Mattel can eat a bag of tiles imho.

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?"

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/04/06/article-1263658-09041212000005DC-451_233x453.jpg

lol at Daily Mail

If you insist.

u guys can still play by the old rules btw

is there a name with both a Q and a Z in it, btw

quizno's

quetzalcoatl

like if the person before you put the word "coat" down you can be a fucking idiot

so basically I have to wait for someone to play COAT and hope I have AELLQTUZ in my rack

xp: lol

Quetzalcoatl
Quizno's
(Gabriel Garcia) Marquez
Quezon (province in the Philippines)

Lots of people named Velasquez/Velazquez and Vasquez/Vazquez.

http://mantiseye.com/img/shirtclub/full/week3.jpg

many xposts: QUIZ is not a proper noun fwiw

yes I know but it would be tons more fun to use the new rule to ditch a Q and a Z, like a 1-2 punch of "fuck you" translated into Scrabble-ese

Hold the phones...this article suggests the rule change only applies to a new version of Scrabble called 'Trickster'?
Oh Mattelpaws...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-20001840-52.html

there is more space dust

More reassurance, from Stefan Fastis himself. So you can put "Dweezil" and "Zappa" on hold.

tbh, Words With Friends shot down my Triple Word-Triple Letter "Shinto" the other week, which absolutely would have won me the game, so I am in favor of this measure.

FFS. Just tried to play "fag" in the official iPad app and it wouldn't allow it. Just tested some swear words too and they're not allowed either. And there's not even an option not to censor the dictionary. When the fuck did this happen?

played it for the 1st time ever in October, i'm now hooked.
can't believe it's taken me 37 years to actually play this game.

I started playing again, boy am I lousy.

i really need to get back to playing this. I used to have several regular rivalries w/ folks whose formidable skillz challenged me to take this kind of seriously, at least to the extent that I memorized all the acceptable two-letter words & also developed quite a skill & making bingos. Once I got formed a bingo ending in S which also pluralized another, existing word ON A TIPLE WORD SCORE SPACE, no less, & also I believe I double or triple letter-scored a high-point letter in the same fell-swoop. The point total for that word (which escapes me at present, tho I have it written down somewhere) was, I believe, in excess of 250 pts. - so, yes, I am both a dork and a badass!

Classic, obv.

Steve do you play Words Free on your iphone?

"Once I got formed a bingo ending in S which also pluralized another, existing word ON A TIPLE WORD SCORE SPACE, no less, & also I believe I double or triple letter-scored a high-point letter in the same fell-swoop."

Whoever let you get access to a triple word score off a pluralized word should be shot. That's terrible play right there.

The word ASININE just spelled itself on my rack, which I played for a bingo. A suitable comment on Mattel's removal if "fag" from the dictionary.

iirc, I believe I was set myself up for that, betting against the other player being able to utilize the chance & then it just so happens I got the tiles to not only use the s for both words, but also to make a bingo.

xp

xp lol

I am playing Scrabble in face to face environment, not isc nor wwf. i had one game with 500+ points but several sub 400 point efforts including a low 300 point game which was pretty :-(.

I think I'm about 75-5 against random opponents on Words w/Friends. When we started the ILX Literati tourney a few years ago, Edward III beat me so bad I gave the game up for a few years.

Anybody ever want to play a non-rated game on isc, let me know. It's got to be non-rated, though, to save me from myself.

personally, I am afraid to start playing online b/c of the distractibility factor. I barely have enough self-discipline to get any work done as it is.

It's not a distraction for me. It simply takes over my life.

o I def think it is a worthwhile endeavor, for the brain workout & all, it is just that I don't get paid to do it. nor do I get paid to drink booze or post on ilx :-(

Had to give this up. Every game was either a) me winning by so much it was embarrassing; ii) me losing by so much it was embarrassing; or 3) a tense nailbiter with hours of mental torture trying to wring every last possible point and tactical advantange out of every move. None of these things were fun.

hahaha great description *sigh*

Scrabble has provided me with many hours of harmless enjoyment, so I will rate it on the classic side of the equation. Among my siblings and I it caused fewer internecine feuds than, say, Monopoly or Risk, and had more scope for skill than, say, Candyland or Stratego.

But no one should ever, ever, ever make the mistake of thinking that Scrabble has more than a passing connection to one's aptitude for language.