Portent
I’m not exactly sure why Randie continues to play Scrabbled with Ryan… clearly she’s an inferior player to a well-read and learned wordsmith. But good for her for not giving up.
I’m not exactly sure why Randie continues to play Scrabbled with Ryan… clearly she’s an inferior player to a well-read and learned wordsmith. But good for her for not giving up.
the fastest way to get better is to play against people who are better then you. did the same thing in chess, until I started winning.
I don’t know why Randie’s so worried… she could link into the E of PORTENT and get AAIIIEEE (a popular sound effect in comic books set in WWII – usually coming from the enemy) 😉
And I’ve heard the rules for Scrabble(d) have been changed recently to allow the use of names and proper nouns (though my family and I were doing that for years anyway 🙂
Still, it could be worse for Randie – it could have been a Super Scrabble board they were playing on, with the quadruple-letter and quadruple-word scores 🙂
Oh… yeah… I was once playing my mum at Upwords: at the start of the game, neither of us had vowels, but I realised I could still play one word. When I played it, Mum got angry, wrote down a three-letter abbreviation for something rather rude on the scorepad, and stormed off. The word, for the record, was PYX.
Aerie off the R? 🙂
I bet Randie kicks butt at Pictionary, though. 🙂
Anything off the “P” would score okay, such as Ape, Pie, or Pee. Each is worth 5 points, like McDuff’s “aerie”, but his is better because it burns more letters and sets some distance from the Triple Word Score square on Ryan’s turn.
My wife and I received our diving certification from a dive shop in Aiea, Hawaii, a city with no vowels. But since it’s a proper noun, it couldn’t be used.
I can see that Squid’s readers are experienced Scrabbled players! At Chez Bridgett, the competition is fierce! Nelson usually reigns with his expert math skills. He claims it is as much a math game as it is a word game. He must be right because he’s usually in the winner’s circle. You’re right, Dancinghawk, that’s how you get better… play the exceptionals.
Oh, and the “new version” of Scrabble was released as “a special version” in the UK. I think it’s ridiculous, but that’s just me.
And, yes, Randie ROCKs Pictionary… that’ll be a good series of toons in the future!
And, Mum gets a bit hot under the collar, eh? Let the wookie win, Mark.
Ha! Great use of the tiles. Nice.
Sometimes Scrabble is just like life. You just have to play out the hand you are dealt and hope a better one comes along… or you accidentally turn over the table and mix everything up.
Gah! The all-vowel curse! It’s struck again :)!
Ah, Brig, thanks for setting me straight on the special UK version… To my shame, I didn’t research it as closely as I usually do – I only went with what the BBC’s “The News Quiz” said about it, and assumed it to be all versions, worldwide *ahem* *blush*
Wmcduff: Nice play, there, with AERIE!
Brig, is Randie allowed to phone a friend? 😉
Having just played this game with my parents last night . . . yeah, that’s how I always wind up, too. Q, X, and a handful of vowels.
Meanwhile, Mom complains about the set of letters she’s “stuck” with, and then plays a 30-point combo.
Admittedly, I much prefer Euro-style games. I recommend the Gryphon Games series for light, quick games that aren’t hugely rules heavy. For Sale is my favourite from the series…possibly my favourite period!
wmcduff: I’m not at all surprised that you like the Euro-style games – they’re very engaging, and a lot of fun, without lasting hours and hours… For my part, I tend to regard Reiner Knizia with nothing short of awe for his creativity and ingenuity 🙂
Astragali: I like some of Knizia’s games, but he does have a tendancy to have pretty paper thin themes at times. Granted, he makes so many, that there are some great ones, but there are some iffy ones as well.
According to http://www.anagrammer.com/ the highest scoring play is to play AE underneath the PO, scoring PA (4 points), OE (2 points) and AE (2 points) for a total of 8. Me thinks that memorizing http://phrontistery.info/scrabble3.html would increase my Scrabble scores a lot. 🙂
According to http://www.anagrammer.com/, the highest scoring play is AE below the PO in PORTENT, scoring PA (4 points), OE (2 points) and AE (2 points) for 8 points. Methinks memorizing http://phrontistery.info/scrabble3.html would help me kick some Scrabble butt. 🙂