Rolling invalid Scrabble plays, 2009

"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!"