Scrabble

[pianorama]

For the past month or so I've been addicted to Scrabble. Since no one in my family is very good or willing to play more than once every few days I've found Scrabblian Nirvana at the ISC (Internet Scrabble Club) at www.isc.ro . My rating there varies from about 300-380. That's only a moderate score; the best players are 1600-2000.

 Gooooooooooooooo Scrabble!

 
              P.S. I'm quite surprised no one has ever started a thread before now about scrabble. How many Scrabble lovers are there here?

[amanfang]

Not a big scrabble fan myself.  Last time I played it was in Germany last summer.  My German is only mediocre.  I can speak enough to get around.  I was staying with another girl at this family's house (she speaks as much German as I do) and the host family didn't speak English.  They pulled out Scrabble one night, and we played Scrabble in German.  (They let us use dictionaries.  We starting to make up words that looked like they might be German.)  Anyway, needless to say, I lost.  And I haven't really played sincee then.

[pianistimo]

if you like scrabble - you might like this newer game called 'up words.'  you can stack letters and change existing words to other words.  it's kinda fun. 

[pianorama]

Also if anyone here happens to be a member of the ISC (Which I doubt though it is possible) I would like to play a game with you there. Just tell me your handle (username) and I will try to match you to a game. My handle is Lowell.

Scrabble has some very strange words that are regularly used that many people wouldn't consider words at all. Some of my favourites: all the Q without U words (qabala/qabalah, an occult or secret doctrine, qadi, a Muslim judge, qaid, a Muslim leader (they are slightly different), qanat, a system of underground tunnels and wells in the middle east, qat, a type of evergreen shrub, qi, the vital force that in Chinese thought is inherent in all living things, qindar (the plural is qindars or qindarka), also spelled qintar (plural only qintars), a monetary unit of Albania, qiviut, the wool of a musk-ox and qoph, a Hebrew letter), which are all nouns. You are also allowed the pronounciations of English letters (and foreign letters such as qoph above) such as em for M, el for L, ex for X, dee for D, vee for V, etc. Strangely enough, another spelling for Z besides zed or zee is izzard. That's no typo, you heard me, izzard. How they arrived at that spelling though I'm not quite sure. Also, the word jee (also spelled gee) is an adjective meaning to turn right. Za is a nickname for pizza, xu is a monetary unit of Vietnam and xi is a Greek letter. In fact, in total there are 43 acceptable words starting with an X in the 4th edition Official Scrabble Player's Dictionary. I must say, after looking through all the the X words, my favourite of all is xylyl (no typo). A xylyl (yes, it's a noun) is apparently a univalent radical. Whatever that means.
 Ah..... Those lovable, crazy Scrabble words

[e60m5]

I love Scrabble, but rarely have the opportunity to play it.   

[burstroman]

I love Scrabble and all games that help me increase my vocabulary.

[debussy symbolism]

Greetings.

A couple of years ago I used to play backgammon over the internet. I got banned though, for the distress I created and annoyance I caused to the players. I repeatedly claimed myself as an "indestructable, indefatigable, and undefeated sorcerer who just couln't be beaten at backgammon" The funny thing is I have beaten practically everyone and gloated over the victories and created quite an imboglio, until I was beaten by some guy and they threw me out.

[nicco]

Greetings.

A couple of years ago I used to play backgammon over the internet. I got banned though, for the distress I created and annoyance I caused to the players. I repeatedly claimed myself as an "indestructable, indefatigable, and undefeated sorcerer who just couln't be beaten at backgammon" The funny thing is I have beaten practically everyone and gloated over the victories and created quite an imboglio, until I was beaten by some guy and they threw me out.

Bummer.

[Mozartian]

scrabble is amazing.

[thalbergmad]

I like to play scrabble and swear word scrabble as well.

Respect to the man in the Guiness Book of Records who got "oxidizes" on the triple letter and triple word squares.

Thal

[nanabush]

Scrabble's awesome, we should make a PF league 

[pianorama]

Well, I'm glad there are so many Scrabble lovers here.
 
 Good news! Now my rating is higher! Now it stays put for now between about 390-440. Maybe it's just luck. I hope not. Who here thinks they have scored the most bingoes/50-point bonuses (when you use all 7 tiles on your rack)? Not including 8 or 9 tile scrabble games. I myself have only gotten one before, worth 72 points. The word was groovers. (a groover is one that grooves, and groovers is the plural) Though just yesterday (Sunday, August 13th 2006) I got another one worth 76 points but it was played during a game of 9 tile scrabble with the word quieted.
 Who here thinks they have gotten the highest score for one word/turn? (you can make more than one word per turn for those non-scrabble players)

[pianorama]

Also, brownie points and a pat on the back to whoever can correctly name all two letters words. Clue#1: There are more than 60 but less than 120 two letter words.
Clue#2: Two of them have no vowels. (They're both interjections, such as aye, umm, and argh and other noise words. But not all noise words are interjections I don't think.)

[harjoydes]

I think the question should not be "how often do you play Scrabble", but "how often would you like to play Scrabble".  I would like to play once or twice a week, but I only get a chance, maybe once every two months.  My sister lives interstate, and when we get together we play.  I was playing MSN zone 'Scrabbleblast' for a while, which is a perfectly fun waste of time.  It's similar to scrabble, but different.  You can make longer words, and you use the letters in a sort of 'boggle' layout.
I signed up with isc, but never completed the whole download- something nasty happened.  I figure that I probably have more productive things to do anyway (practise???)
Cheers

[pianorama]

I think the question should not be "how often do you play Scrabble", but "how often would you like to play Scrabble".  I would like to play once or twice a week, but I only get a chance, maybe once every two months.  My sister lives interstate, and when we get together we play.  I was playing MSN zone 'Scrabbleblast' for a while, which is a perfectly fun waste of time.  It's similar to scrabble, but different.  You can make longer words, and you use the letters in a sort of 'boggle' layout.
I signed up with isc, but never completed the whole download- something nasty happened.  I figure that I probably have more productive things to do anyway (practise???)
Cheers

 Hmmm maybe so. After summer ends and school starts again and I get to meet my new piano teacher I probably won't be playing scrabble nearly as much

[pianorama]

hmmm oops turns out there are 3 two letter words without any vowels.

 I will divulge the secret after a few days until someone guesses the number.........




Suspense

Also, I have gotten 12 bingoes now! My highest word so far is printers on 2 triples (making it x9) for 140 points!


 

[pianorama]

If I have counted correctly there are 101 two letter words:

aa ab ad ae ag ah ai al am an ar as at aw ax ay

ba be bi bo by

de do

ed ef eh el em en er es et ex

fa fe

go

ha he hi hm ho

id if in is it

jo

ka ki

la li lo

ma me mi mm mo mu my

na ne no nu

od oe of oh oi om on op or os ow ox oy

pa pe pi

qi

re

sh si so

ta ti to

uh um un us ut

we wo

xi xu

ya ye yo

za

I think that's all of them. Oh and BTW this is for OSPD 4th edition (Official Scrabble Player's Dictionary), which is the American dictionary, used in North America, not SOWPODS, which is mainly used in England and Great Britain, which I think has even more words. ( in SOWPODS io ch and st are words  )

P.S. I have gotten about 40 bingoes now, and my rating is 480. Printers is still my best word so far.