BZZZT re 2-letter Scrabble words

Hey! Cecil used the link I found in the updated column! :cool:

[sup]My aunt made a challenge, and lost, when I used YO in a victorious game recently [/sup]:smiley:

:confused: WTF? Imposter…the real Cecil would never admit he couldn’t keep up with a two letter word list. Who are you?

:frowning:

He didn’t say he couldn’t keep up, he said it was difficult – even for him – to keep up.

Yes, that’s our Perfect Master. No imposters are allowed to use Cecil’s name.

Spanish? That’s nothing. Live on the edge and play Skrablo in Esperanto.

There’s an online Java version too, programmed by the legendary Argilo: http://skrablo.ikso.net/ :slight_smile:

Ever read the rules that come with the game? Those rules say that all players should agree on a dictionary or dictionaries to use for valid words before the game, but that the players can choose any dictionary at all, even foreign ones, if they so choose. The Official Scrabble Players’ Dictionary is one such choice, of course, but you could agree to use nothing but a list of dirty slang words from a Web site, and still be playing a legitimate game of Scrabble, by the rules.

Incidentally, has anyone noticed that the published “Official Scrabble Players’ Dictionary” cuts off at eight letters? It’s perfectly possible to use seven tiles to form a 15-letter word, if enough letters are already in place from previous words.

Amongst my relatives (all of whom are ruthless at exploiting the bonus squares, extending words, and parallel-building using a half-dozen legal two-letter words) obscure vocabulary is my only semblence of a refuge. I once got called twice in a game, once for “thain” and once for “colour”. tofergreg, you’d better not play against me, because I can guarantee that I’ll come up with some words you wouldn’t like.

Someone called you on “colour”? I have to admit, though, that even I get suckered in by the likes of you sometimes. Once when I was playing with someone…

Her: “What word do you use to describe something that’s like an apple?”
Me: “I dunno. Appley?”
“That’s what I thought. I’m going to play it.”
“Wait, that’s not a word. At least, I don’t think so.”
“I think it is. A- P- P- L- Y.”
“Whoa, if it is a word, it’s certainly not spelled like that. APPLY?”
“Well I didn’t have any E’s. If I did I would have just put APPLE, duh. It’s a variant.”
“Whatever. I’m challenging.”
“Fine.”

GIGOBuster–DA was removed in the last update, as it was determined to be a foreign word.

Achernar–that particular technique is a variety of “coffehousing,” strictly verboten in serious Scrabble play. Not meant as a personal criticism, because of course living room rules differ significantly from tourney rules.

Well, not to worry. It didn’t actually happen. At least, not quite like that. I did find a Scrabble cheating FAQ which gives “RE-STING” as the classic example of that type of coffeehousing.

After reading that list, I’m pretty sure I’m not cut out for “serious” Scrabble.

How disappointing… While that’s not actually “the likes of me”, I have a lot of respect for anyone who can pull that one off. Unless, of course, they pulled it off on me ;).

Chronos, our official Chambers Scrabble word list, (That is a book like a dictionary, but without definitions) here in the UK includes words longer than seven letters, which confused us (me) until we remembered you can add to the end of exisiting words.

For example, Mingingnesses…really.

I’m still bitter about the “da” thing.