Rolling invalid Scrabble plays, 2009

Farter.

^^^ for a start that's German

they are called "phonies"!

fuck u holden.

botty
hutty

CLIT always a disappointment.

ian

My brother once played the word "unrewaxed". I had to allow it, because I knew I could use it in a sentence.

kegel

I got away with a scrabble on "ruineth" once, but I had to live with that as my moniker for the next week.

a friend and I played this really dumb girl in the Yahoo version (called Literati) and we played on challenge mode, where everything stood unless you challenged.

she was so dumb that she was afraid to challenge anything, so some of the big word scores of the night were words like "gambanans".

you sir are a cad

i am not proud of my days as a scrabble-hustler but we all gotta come from somewhere right? scrabble was how I put food on the table

if that was a legit way of earning one's corn I'd be having bacchanalian rite every evening

well it wasn't 'legit', ya know, it was played in back alleys with bootlegged boards and grain alcohol...

Weighted blanks in the drawsack.

all playing 'qi' two ways on a triple letter score and getting your face kicked in

za is good too

for waking up without kidneys

Scrabble-inspired shankings - c/d?

Worst shanking I ever got was some dude doing UNCLES one line from the top and then busting out triple-letter madness by making NUNCLES. From King Lear, he said. NUNCLES.

imparade

anybody ever had a truly valid high-scoring word nullified because the majority of the players didn't believe it was a word?

the other day, 'anoxides'

but it's a good thing because that isn't a word at all :D

still won by over 100 points

my greatest triumph was a few months ago when in a 4-player game i came back from MILES behind to win with a bingo on my last go - FEELINGS and ROOFS were made - it was one of the best moments of my life, coming as it did in front of my best friend, his gf, and our best other friend

coming as it did?

thanks sarahel, the mental image of LJ dispensing cocksoup is exactly what I needed.....

no megadome! (but yes megadose which I won the game with)

I've got five bingos in this game - my proudest achievement in months.

quim

perf

I posted this on an ILM thread a couple a weeks ago: I was playing the Quackle computer, and it wouldn't allow me to lay "crunkier."

There is a great part in the book Word Freak where some guy is defending his Scrabble word book at a trial. The lawyer is grilling him with words like, "Would you say UNBANANAS is a word?" "No?" "But REBANANAS is a word?" "Yes, rebananas would count." Best trial dialogue!

God, I loved that book, even though it sent me down a path I wish I'd never got anywhere near to.

Ah, no kidding. I want to buy The Scrabble Word Book but I'm afraid it would make me a very hated person. I feel like I don't need any further help in socially marginalizing myself.

The lawyer is grilling him with words like, "Would you say UNBANANAS is a word?" "No?" "But REBANANAS is a word?" "Yes, rebananas would count."

Ha, apparently it was no to REBANANA but yes to ANTIBANANA.

<3 you jaymc!

I've read that book at least four times. It's what I read when I want to sleep but can't get my mind off troubles x worries.

MANX

(it's capitalized)

Weirdly, I haven't read Word Freak, but I saw the documentary Word Wars.

The crew making "Word Wars" were hanging out with Fastis while he was writing his book, and there's a fair amount of overlap between the two. They focus on all the same main players, iirc. SO it's weird if you've read the book getting to see these people IRL. I liked "Word Wars" but the graphics in it really annoyed me.

"Unbananas" should be a word, for when this shit is not bananas, obv

"amirite" for the win

but when is this shit ever not bananas??

I wonder if AMIRITE is in anyone's crossword database.

I watched Word Wars for a second time recently; only read the book once. The film is very good, but not as good as the book. Obviously you can't get as deep into the subject in a 90-minute film as you can in a 400-page book. Marlon Hill is great--he was the highlight of the film for me. What the film misses most is what frames the book: Fastis's own developing addiction. There's a thing in Ontario for junior-age kids called the Silver Birch Awards. Teachers at my school sign up to read one book, and last year I ended up reading Susin (sic) Nielsen's Word Nerd, about a 12-year-old kid who takes up Scrabble (to ward off all the cliches of such books: divorce, bullying, etc.). Pretty good; all the chapter titles were 7-letter anagrams.

http://tundrabooks.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/word-nerd.jpg

Does its author have a peanut allergy? Or, more broadly, why is the book advertised as being "peanut free"?

The lead character Ambrose does, one of the reasons he gets bullied.

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.

all playing 'qi' two ways on a triple letter score and getting your face kicked in

― acoleuthic, Tuesday, 24 August 2010 00:46 (3 days ago)

Honestly the person who leaves an open vowel by a trip deserves what he/she gets

^^^^^^^

My opponent did FRUITED, and I thought I could do DEFRUITED for a triple word, but, alas, no.

The pear tree was defruited, and we ate a delicious breakfast.

hahaha clemenza, that is a golden celebrity-encounter story.

the young gentleman was defruited, and lived out the rest of his days as a god-fearing christian

douchier

squeam

That's not fair: if bearish means you resemble a bear, then squeamish must mean you're acting like a squeam.

Exactly.

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!"