Scrabble II highlights: COMATOSE DUMPLING...
Donald Sauter
played last night, Wednesday, July 1 2009, at the
Dover Scrabble Club (Delaware). We use the American Heritage
dictionary and do not allow phony words. Still, we make
longer words and score more points than the champs. Heck,
over 40% of their oddball plays wouldn't even be allowed in
our club. See:
http://www.geocities.com/donaldsauter/national-scrabble-championship.htm
Elsie's son Evan showed up tonight for the first time.
He played fine. Overall, we wrestled with tons of lousy
racks. I skipped three times in one 10-turn game. Once
again, no 9-letter words. But somehow we averaged a half
decent 29.7 points per turn.
One game had 18 E and no F or B. Another game had 12 O,
5 M, and 5 Y. Every game is fresh and different!
Hey, folks, it shouldn't take so much work trying get a
little dialog going on Scrabble II vs. "classic" Scrabble -
"classic" in quotes because the modern game drowning in
silly little 2- and 3-letter words nobody's ever used in
his life can't possibly be what the inventors had in mind.
Scrabble II is to "classic" Scrabble as a Thanksgiving
meal is to stale crackers. What's more exciting - JO, QI,
XU, and ZA game after game after game (snore) . . . or the
nice, fresh, juicy words you see below? Try it and come
back and tell me what an idiot I am.
Here's what we played last night in just 4 games:
*** 9-letter Words ***
none :-(
*** 8-letter Words ***
ANNOYING
COMATOSE
DUMPLING
EMITTING
*** 7-letter Words ***
FORAGER
INSULIN
KIDDERS
MESSAGE
METRICS
MUSTIER
PLAQUES (Note: not QI)
RACQUET (Note: not QI)
RUDDERS
TRIAGES
*** 6-letter Words ***
ENTREE
FITTED
GOOSES
GRAZES
LOVELY
MATING
PAYOLA
PHONED
PILLOW
RAINED
RATION
RUMORS
SMIRKY
SOLVER
TAGGED
UNEVEN
WINNER
*** 5-letter Words ***
ANNEX
BITTY
DOUSE
EVOKE
GIVER
HANDY
ICIER
JUROR
KOOKY
LOOKS
LOVED
PIKES
SANER
SIZED
UNITE
WHEAT
YAHOO
*** Selected 4-letter Words ***
AUNT
BODY
HEAT
JURY
ROMP
VICE
*** Just these 3-letter Words ***
AXE AYA BED BOX DIM EVE FIE HEX JAR JAW JOT JOY
MAY OUD RAP RAW SHE TOT WEB WEE
*** Just these 2-letter Words ***
AD AG AM AW BE BY DO EH EL EM HE ID IS OW PA RE
WE YE YO
You, too, can set your Scrabble board ablaze with
REAL WORDS found in a REAL DICTIONARY, and used by
REAL PEOPLE:
http://www.geocities.com/donaldsauter/scrabble.htm
Donald Sauter