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| Donald Sauter... |
 Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 6:46 pm |
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Here are the highlights from the four (4) Scrabble games played last
night, Wednesday, October 28, 2009, at the Dover Scrabble Club
(Delaware).
We averaged 31.2 points per turn as a group. Elsie won two games on
her final play by 2 points (dang it!) Actually, in one game she
deserved it by dovetailing DOVETAIL in on her penultimate play. I
thought I had wrapped it up with SHOWIER a turn earlier. In one game,
where I played second of four, I was the lucky recipient on my first
turn of an open U for unloading QUARTZ around it. A few turns later I
was the lucky bum to get ITE to stretch QUARTZITE to triple-word score
for 81 points. One time I was chicken to play RECALLERS, and settled
for CLEARERS. In one game I found PUGILIST in my rack, but couldn't
get it down and had to settle for PUGILIST using a P on the board.
Tile oddities: One game had 16A and 13O. Another game had 7S and 3J.
Another game had 11T. 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 4 games:
*** 9-letter Words ***
PINNACLED
QUARTZITE (Note: not QI)
REINDEERS
*** 8-letter Words ***
CLEARERS
DEVIATED
DOVETAIL
GOVERNOR
NEGATIVE
PUGILIST
*** 7-letter Words ***
ANKLETS
ARMOURS
BEATING
DRESSES
EMPIRES
GROOMED
INVOICE
JUICIER
LASTING
MENTION
MOSQUES (Note: not QI)
OVULATE
PASTING
SHOWIER
*** 6-letter Words ***
BRANDY
CLONED
EATING
FELINE
MATRON
MOSAIC
NOTARY
PANTRY
PREFIX
RAZING
SHRUNK
VIGILS
WASABI
WIDOWS
ZEALOT
ZEALOT
*** 5-letter Words ***
AORTA
AQUAE (Note: not QI)
BANDS
BRUTE
CHUTE
CLOVE
DELAY
DOWEL
GUANO
HAULS
JAPES
LOANS
MANIC
MOUTH
PIVOT
PURGE
QUILT (Note: not QI)
SCREW
SHOVE
SOOTY
UNIFY
UNITE
VAULT
WEAVE
*** Selected 4-letter Words ***
ATOP
BANG
CURT
DOOM
KEPT
*** Just these 3-letter Words ***
ADO ANA ANE DAY DEN JET JET JOT OAK OUD PAT RIM SEX TAJ TAP
*** Just these 2-letter Words ***
AD AT BY BY ED EL EN IT LA LA ME MY MY OF OH OX TA UT WE 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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