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| Donald Sauter... |
 Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 6:31 pm |
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Here are the highlights from the two (2) Scrabble games played last
night, Wednesday, October 21, 2009, at the Dover Scrabble Club
(Delaware).
We averaged 27.3 points per turn as a group. Louise's RETENTION was a
double-double word score. Louise tried BOATNECK, filling in between a
B and a K (just like Nigel Richards would do.) She claims it was a
fashion term, but the American Heritage was mum. Nobody would give me
an opening for ROBOTIC, so I had to settle for YOBBO on triple-word
score. After all these years, I got burned on ROO. The things you
don't learn every day . . .
Tile oddities: One game had 7S, 3 blanks, 15O, 14I, and no F or H.
The other game had 6S, 3Z, and 10T. Every game is fresh and
different!
Scrabble II is the purest Scrabble being played on earth. A few,
small, natural rule fixes 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
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 2 games:
*** 9-letter Words ***
RETENTION
*** 8-letter Words ***
BLEEDERS
COLLARDS
CRIBBING
RUDIMENT
*** 7-letter Words ***
BOUNCER
GAMETES
GAUDIER
GAUNTER
WASTING
*** 6-letter Words ***
BUTANE
DUTIES
LETTER
LIPIDS
OPERON
PINION
REMOVE
*** 5-letter Words ***
AMITY
ATONE
ERROR
FOVEA
JOWLS
MANIA
OFFAL
SMACK
SQUAB (Note: not QI)
TENTH
TOXIN
TRAIL
WORDS
YACHT
YOBBO
*** Selected 4-letter Words ***
AWRY
AXON
DISC
JAMB
MARK
ROSY
SLUG
VEER
YARN
*** Just these 3-letter Words ***
PAW TON YAY ZOO ZOO
*** Just these 2-letter Words ***
AN AS AT BE EL GO LA RE TO WE
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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