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| Donald Sauter... |
 Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 5:45 am |
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Here are the highlights from the four (4) Scrabble games played
last night, Wednesday, November 4, 2009, at the Dover Scrabble Club
(Delaware).
This was certainly one of our most mundane outings ever, forming only
11 sevens and eights in four games. Still, I know that outstrips the
typical performance in a sanctioned club. Our dismal 24.8 Points Per
Turn on the evening dragged our seasonal average down to 29.2 ppt. I
took a dive on THORNED, figuring it was a perfectly logical word for
"sick with thorns." But I didn't stop to think we already have a much
more common word for it - THORNY. Oof.
Tile oddities: Three games had 2Q while the other had none. One game
had 7D and 12N. Another game had 7G and 5Y. 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:
*** 8-letter Words ***
ANTHILLS
ENDEARED
PENITENT
*** 7-letter Words ***
BLOATER
PATRONS
REPLETE
SETTLOR
THRONED
UTOPIAS
WEIRDER
WELDING
*** 6-letter Words ***
AUNTIE
BISQUE (Note: not QI)
DIMPLE
DINNER
GLIDES
GUMBOS
LATHES
MOBILE
PARROT
POMADE
QUARKS (Note: not QI)
RATION
RAVINE
SALOON
SLUDGE
SURELY
TERROR
TRADER
TURTLE
VAUNTS
VENDOR
*** 5-letter Words ***
BEGOT
BIGHT
BIRDS
BUNTS
DUSTY
ENJOY
EQUIP (Note: not QI)
ERASE
FIERY
GIDDY
GIVEN
GRADE
HABIT
HABIT
HAUNT
LEEKS
LOONY
LOWER
PIVOT
PLIER
QUAIL (Note: not QI)
QUARK (Note: not QI)
SCARE
SEVEN
THROB
THUGS
TREAT
TWEED
VEGAN
VEXED
VOWED
WOKEN
WOMEN
WOVEN
ZINGY
*** Selected 4-letter Words ***
PAWN
PLOD
TIKI
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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