Scrabble II highlights: GRUMPIER SENTINELS in HOMEROOM...
Donald Sauter
night, Wednesday, November 11, 2009, at the Dover Scrabble Club
(Delaware).
As a group, we averaged 35.4 Points Per Turn, perhaps a club record.
We formed 26 sevens, eights and nines in the 4 games. Elsie is still
on a roll. In one game she scored 673 points in 13 turns (51.8 ppt).
I mentioned a couple of weeks ago she won two games by 2 pts on her
last play; in a game last night, a piddly 7 points worth of leftover
tile adjustment moved her from third place to first - and dropped me
to a tie for 2nd after playing my heart out at a 46.6 ppt clip and
scoring more points than anybody else in one less turn. :( Actually,
this is one of the things that makes Scrabble a great game! We played
112 tiles in a mere 23 turns in that game - typical for us, but
something that would *never* happen in baby-word tournament-style
Scrabble. In one game I was too chicken to risk JETLIKE which would
have made a nice score. In another I traded 6 lousy vowels and drew
VVWWAA. No matter, Elsie was already up by 220 points after 5
turns.
Tile oddities: One game had 8S, 19E, 10N, and 12O. Another game had
2J, 2X and 2Z, but no Q. Every game is fresh and different!
Scrabble II is the purest Scrabble being played on earth. A few,
small, natural rule fixes keep players gunning for longer words. It
rescues the game from the same, tired, old, connect-the-dot plays of
baby Scrabble words. Scrabble II does not allow for phony words. In
our club, we use a conventional dictionary, the American Heritage.
Scrabble II is more intelligent, challenging, and sophisticated than
modern American tournament-style Scrabble in every way. Heck, over 40%
of the oddball plays on championship boards wouldn't even be allowed
in our club. See:
http://www.geocities.com/donaldsauter/national-scrabble-championship-2009.htm
Still skeptical about Scrabble II? Send me photos or screen shots of
a batch of your best games and I'll make you famous with a web page
like the one above for the National Scrabble Champions.
Here's what we played last night in 4 games:
*** 9-letter Words ***
SENTINELS
*** 8-letter Words ***
COURIERS
DIATRIBE
DOMINATE
GRUMPIER
HOMEROOM
PERMEATE
SHIFTING
VOCATION
WARPATHS
*** 7-letter Words ***
BENEATH
ENEMIES
ENNOBLE
EQUATOR (Note: not QI)
ERODING
GARGLED
HANDIER
LIONIZE
POSTAGE
SEQUINS (Note: not QI)
SQUARED (Note: not QI)
TANGLED
TYRANNY
WAVIEST
WHEATEN
ZEALOUS
*** 6-letter Words ***
AGREES
AIRIER
ARTIST
ATTAIN
BESTOW
ENDEAR
EXPEND
EXTEND
FOOTER
GIRLIE
INKIER
JAILED
JARGON
LATELY
LOUDER
SPONGY
TOASTY
WAXIER
*** 5-letter Words ***
BIGHT
BLANK
BORNE
BRINY
DOZED
DOZEN
EIGHT
MOONS
OFFAL
PUKED
SEINE
SPAWN
TUXES
VALOR
VICAR
WAXES
*** Selected 4-letter Words ***
AQUA (Note: not QI)
AVOW
CRUX
EXAM
FREE
JAMB
MOOD
*** Just these 3-letter Words ***
ART AWE AYA BIO FIE FOX GYM HEX HOE JOY MAN MOT NOW OAK OFF TON TON
TOO VIA ZED
*** Just these 2-letter Words ***
AR AY AY BE BI BY DO DO ED EH EH EL EL FA FA HA IN IN MA ME ME ON ON
OR OR SO SO SO 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