Rolling invalid Scrabble plays, 2009

And then you've got things like Neil Simon films and romance novels, which are heavy with mawk.

DANCIER

thank you very much early 2000s post-punk revival

(although tbh i got away with it!)

Just remembered something that happened a couple of months ago. I was on the Internet Scrabble Club, and Joel Sherman ("G.I. Joel") was on there playing one of the computers. If you're familiar with the ISC, you'll know that some of the same players from Word Freak/Wars are on there, that the interface lets you know when they log on, and that (if the person hasn't disabled his chat) you can message anyone who's online when you are. So I got this sudden urge to message Sherman and tell him how much I liked the book and the film. Couldn't do it--couldn't think of how to say it so that I'd be confident he wouldn't tell me to get lost. It was like finding yourself face-to-face with Willie Mays in an elevator and being too nervous to speak.

If you've seen Sherman in Word Wars, I'm sure this will seem somewhat amusing.

― clemenza, Friday, August 27, 2010 12:14 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark

hey btw who here is on ISC? im PLSMITH on there, and always stoked for a game if im signed on, especially from an ILXor! generally only like to play 25min DOUBLE TWL rated games, but ill play unrated games (and could settle for games over 12min/person) too.

I've got a half-dozen different handles: sayhey, clemenza, stengel, rushmore, kane41, travis76. I've sworn off playing till Christman, my 532nd moratorium.

Christ was a man, yes--the holiday's called "Christmas."

twink

Mung. Thought that was one of the better established beans...

SAXY

"Truthers"--not for now, anyway.

Speaking of SAXY, would "Yakety" be a valid play?

ZOHAN

lol

"Mofo."

I did manage to hook "frosted" onto "mug" for a bingo--frosted mugs. And then, after a week-long binge, I've sworn off ISC yet again.

I once played Scrabble at a college party and scored what I argued was a scrabble with the word "ruineth," (i.e. archaic verb form of ruin/ruins). We had a long argument about it and they ultimately accepted but proceeded to call me "ruineth" for about a week. I've occasionally wondered since then if it was a valid play. What sayeth ILX?

Why you should decide on a dictionary to consult before the game.

The stuff the Merriam-Webster Official Scrabble Dictionary accepts as words boggles (see what I did there) the mind.

Although thanks to that dictionary I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gotten rid of a Q by playing “Qi”.

According to this, no:

https://scrabble.hasbro.com/en-us/tools#dictionary

(Do you call seven-letter words Scrabbles--is that a British thing? The common name for them in North America is a Bingo.)

We (british) used to call them scrabbles, I was surprised when I first heard them call bingos and even more surprised when I went back to the rules in our old box and saw that was the official term, I figured scrabbles was peculiar to our family - obviously not!

Really, Scrabble makes a lot more sense; no one with a winning Bingo card yells out "Scrabble!"