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| Donald Sauter... |
 Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:54 am |
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Here are the highlights from the four (4) Scrabble games played last
night, Wednesday, September 2, 2009, at the Dover Scrabble Club
(Delaware).
Scrabble II is the purest form of Scrabble played on earth. It has a
few, small, natural rule fixes which rescue the game from the clutches
of connect-the-dot plays of baby words. It takes the game into the
realm of much longer words. It 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
Favorite play last night was GIZZARDS, by Louise, using two real, live
Z's. There's something you don't see every day in tournament
Scrabble. I got burned on FILLAGE and UNGAUGED, both with obvious (to
me) meanings.
Tile oddities: the game with GIZZARDS also had 2J and 2Q, plus 15A.
Another game had 4 blanks 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 4 games:
*** 9-letter Words ***
UNPLANNED
*** 8-letter Words ***
GIZZARDS
GLOAMING
PANTHERS
STRIVERS
WORDIEST
*** 7-letter Words ***
CLAIMED
EARLIER
FAINTED
FARRIER
HOARIER
HOLDERS
MALAISE
MOURNED
REVILER
SAVORED
SCOUTED
STOOGES
UNWINDS
*** 6-letter Words ***
ATONAL
BRIEFS
CARROT
DROPSY
EDGING
FIRMED
FLUTES
FOXIER
GREAVE
LOUNGE
QUAINT (Note: not QI)
QUIVER (Note: not QI)
REBATE
REBOOT
REGAIN
REMAIN
RUSTED
SNOOPY
TORQUE (Note: not QI)
TRAWLS
*** 5-letter Words ***
ADAGE
AGREE
BOOZE
DAUNT
DECAF
FIRED
GUARD
LEASH
MIXER
MOLAR
MOODY
PIETY
POINT
ROYAL
SALES
SOLAR
SONNY
UTTER
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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