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| Donald Sauter... |
 Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 7:43 am |
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Here are the highlights from the four (4) Scrabble games played last
night, Wednesday, September 30, 2009, at the Dover Scrabble Club
(Delaware).
Scrabble II is the purest Scrabble played anywhere. It has a few,
small, natural rule fixes which 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
In one game I could have done a "Nigel Richards" by playin IGNITION
though I and T separated by 3 spaces. However, tacking ING on RECOAT
to hit triple-word score made more points and left a better rack. In
another game I spelled INQUIRED - using blanks for both the Q and U!
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real Q would have been doubled and doubled again.  In another
game
I played JOKING on triple-word score - and then got LY to stretch it
to the next triple-word score.
Tile oddities: One game 8D. One game had 5P and 6S. Every game is
fresh and different!
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 5 games:
*** 9-letter Words ***
ADVANTAGE
RECOATING
*** 8-letter Words ***
CLOWNING
DERANGED
FROTHING
INQUIRED (Note: not QI)
JOKINGLY
LOITERED
MENTORED
MOBSTERS
UNVEILED
*** 7-letter Words ***
COTTAGE
KNOWING
MAIDENS
MANAGES
MARQUEE (Note: not QI)
MOPIEST
PIGMENT
QUICKER (Note: not QI)
READIED
SPIKERS
*** 6-letter Words ***
ADJOIN
ANVILS
BOXIER
CHAINS
CLIMES
DOUGHY
GAUGES
GLAZED
HOOFER
ICONIC (Nice find in horror rack.)
LODGED
PINATA
PLAINS
RELIED
RUPEES
SHARED
VEERED
WARREN
*** 5-letter Words ***
AIMED
ALOUD
AMITY
ARENA
BADGE
BALSA
BEVEL
BLOCK
CHAIR
CLAMP
CLONE
FLASH
FREED
GRIME
GRUNT
HOMED
HONEY
LADEN
MAUVE
NAIVE
PANSY
PIOUS
PUMPS
QUART (Note: not QI)
QUEEN (Note: not QI)
QUOTA (Note: not QI)
ROOTY
SAXES
SHEEP
SHEET
THIEF
THUMB
VEILS
VIREO
WHITE
WOMEN
*** Selected 4-letter Words ***
FALL
RUNE
SLAM
WALK
WOOD
*** Just these 3-letter Words ***
DOT FEZ IDS LOO ORA POD RED WEB YET
*** Just these 2-letter Words ***
AD AD AH AM AS AS AY BE ED EM GO ME ME OF OW TA UT WE YE
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 |
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