# A personal Scrabble feat **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 13, 2007, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-personal-scrabble-feat/419031 "2007-09-13T04:46:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![saramamalana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@saramamalana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saramamalana)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2007, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-personal-scrabble-feat/419031/21 "2007-09-14T15:52:01Z")
Well this is fun. I thought HEARTED was not a valid word because I checked the Scrabble website after the game. After reading what \*\*amarone \*\*said, I went and checked a regular dictionary (Merriam-Webster) website and you’re right, HEARTED is just fine. I wonder why the Scrabble site didn’t like it? ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2007, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-personal-scrabble-feat/419031/22 "2007-09-14T16:13:40Z")
[QUOTE=saramamalana] Well this is fun. I thought HEARTED was not a valid word because I checked the Scrabble website after the game. After reading what \*\*amarone \*\*said, I went and checked a regular dictionary (Merriam-Webster) website and you’re right, HEARTED is just fine. I wonder why the Scrabble site didn’t like it? [/QUOTE] You need to get [The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary](http://www.amazon.com/Official-Scrabble-Players-Dictionary/dp/0877799296/ref=pd_bbs_2/105-5982779-8325254?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189786288&sr=8-2). ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2007, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-personal-scrabble-feat/419031/23 "2007-09-14T16:43:43Z")
Incidentally, a non-word-related game that I’ve found many Scrabble players dig is BLOKUS. Intriguiging and fun. Our family loves it. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2007, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-personal-scrabble-feat/419031/24 "2007-09-14T22:09:00Z")
Once, my opponent gleefully announced to me that she was going to play all of her tiles on her next turn and I couldn’t stop her. The word was “EQUATORS.” There were suitable two “E” tiles that were spaced well away from each other. ---
**Author:** ![ENugent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4af34b/32.png) [@ENugent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENugent)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2007, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-personal-scrabble-feat/419031/25 "2007-09-14T22:17:04Z")
I usually get one or two bingos a game (when I get to play - my husband refuses to play with me any more). But my most memorable play was when a former boyfriend once played a word ending in ‘B’, with the ‘B’ on the right-hand edge of the board, right below the top triple-word box (middle triple-word on that side was already used). He figured that even though I would get the triple-word, there couldn’t be too many great-scoring short words with ‘B’ as the second letter. I played “IBEX”, with the X on the double-letter, for 63 points. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-personal-scrabble-feat/419031.md?page=1)