the Scrabble report
Monday, December 29, 2008
A few days ago I mentioned that I received Super Deluxe Scrabble for Christmas.
Well, Hamburger and I had our inaugural game and he trounced me. The final score was 700 and something to 600 and something. I've blocked the details.
Hamburger has the irritating ability to use all of his tiles. He usually manages it once a game. Sometimes more. This time it was unleaded that put him in the lead, and I was never able to catch up. I blame it on the fact that I was consonant challenged for a good portion of the game.
Many of you asked if it's the same game, only longer. And yes, it does take a good amount of time to play. But the board is larger, and Hamburger and I agree that you seem to be able to spell longer words. We also made good use of the board. I'll confess to using squee in order to nab a quadruple word score. Hamburger never challenges, and I never confessed my doubt that it's a real word. I figure if I've seen it around the internets it's fair game. Of course, he had to turn it into squeeler and hit a triple word score, so so much for my cleverness. Especially since I just now realized squealer is spelled with an a. I think I need to start reading the dictionary.Anyways...two thumbs up. I'd recommend it for all you Scrabble lovers. Just make sure you have plenty of time for a game.
12 comment(s):
Oh, I totally sympathize! I'm usually the one with higher scoring words, but hubby has an annoying habit of adding "ed" or "s" to the end of pre-existing words and earning bazillions of points for it. Makes me crazy every time.
SQUEE!! is a word, oh yes, most definitely.
I'm not trying to trump you in dorkiness (that's a title I could do without!), but you might want to put *The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary* on your wish list. There are tons of crazy 2-letter words you can memorize, and QAT which is a type of ornamental shrubbery (who knew!??)
Glad you're enjoying the expanded version. Challenge him to a re-match!
I'm not trying to trump you in dorkiness (that's a title I could do without!), but you might want to put *The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary* on your wish list. There are tons of crazy 2-letter words you can memorize, and QAT which is a type of ornamental shrubbery (who knew!??)
Glad you're enjoying the expanded version. Challenge him to a re-match!
Looks so awesome!! I love scrabble, but our board is a sad sight - more scotch tape than board at this point lol.
How super-geeky that you used squee - Woot is also in the Oxford dictionary if you have an annoying W.
I love Scrabble, but no one else here does, so I never get to play.
Hamburger probably doesn't challenge so that he can sneak a few words in also. I haven't played scrabble in ages. The new game looks fun.
Rebecca - I know! I didn't mention he also added an s to squeelers, so he milked it for all it was worth!
Care - Cool. You can be the official judge for the next game.
Dawn - Sorry, but I think knowing the word qat trumphs owning Super Deluxe Scrabble for dorkiness.
Jo - I am so using woot in the next game!
Kathy - :-(
girasoli - I think HB and I both cheat. All's fair in love and Scrabble, right?
All's fair in love and Scrabble
This should be the new motto around my house! I love Scrabble but my husband usually wins, often by quite a lot. We've started playing on Facebook and he still wins.
Scrabble is a fun game. We also played it this past week, but we didn't take scored, now I wish we had.
=)
TruBlu
Scrabble is a fun game. We also played it this past week, but we didn't take scored, now I wish we had.
=)
TruBlu
I want this even more now! I'm glad you're having so much fun with it :)
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