Scrabble II highlights: RESINATE LATRINES...
Donald Sauter
played last night, Wednesday, June 17 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
We averaged a rollicking 33.3 points per turn as a group.
My biggest regret was being too chicken to empty my rack
and go out with RESINATE. I played it safe with LATRINES
instead and had to play off the leftover E next turn. By
the way, for the third or fourth time, someone opened a
game with an 8-tile play (MOODIEST). This is a "6-timer",
a double-triple-word score, something that's never seen in
classic Scrabble.
We only had one Q on the evening. A couple of games had 7 S.
One game had 7 L. One game only had 79% of the expected number
of vowels for the total number of tiles in the game. 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
feast is to stale crackers and lukewarm water. 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 ***
COVENANTS
EXAMINERS
LENGTHIER
*** 8-letter Words ***
AILERONS
LATRINES
MILEAGES
MOODIEST
STARVERS
*** 7-letter Words ***
ANOTHER
AROUSED
AVAILED
CLAPPED
DUCTILE
GARBAGE
IDEATED
JOSTLED
MATINEE
NOISIER
RATIONS
SAFFRON
SAUNTER
SCALPED
TOGGLER
TOPICAL
TRAINED
TROUGHS
VISIONS
*** 6-letter Words ***
ALBINO
BEFORE
CLINGY
DEARER
ENAMEL
ENTOMB
FLESHY
GLOWED
GREASY
OMELET
QUARRY (Note: not QI)
RATTAN
RAZING
RETURN
SORDID
SURETY
VALVED
VELLUM
WALLED
*** 5-letter Words ***
AGILE
ARMED
ASHEN
BLAST
CLEFT
EXAMS
FLUTE
FORTH
FROND
HONKS
INLET
JOEYS
SWEPT
THIRD
VIPER
VOMIT
WATCH
*** Selected 4-letter Words ***
AHEM
BABE
BOIL
CHUM
EXAM
OVUM
PULL
WHIZ
*** Just these 3-letter Words ***
ACE AGO CAW DOC ERN GEM HAM NAG PAX PEN PEW TAX VAN
ZAP ZIP
*** Just these 2-letter Words ***
AD AH AM AR BE EF EH EX HE IT LA MA MU RE UP WE XI 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