# Let's play Scrabble(TM)! **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [May 14, 2008, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-scrabble-tm/449230 "2008-05-14T02:16:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-scrabble-tm/449230/21 "2008-05-15T16:55:29Z")
[Link to site](http://www.scrabulous.com/please_login.php). Not yet a Dope-dedicated playing room there. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-scrabble-tm/449230/22 "2008-05-15T17:07:00Z")
Gack! It still wont let me in the robot room. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-scrabble-tm/449230/23 "2008-05-15T17:15:09Z")
I’m going to go venture out into meat space for a while, but will try to hook up with you later, **Mad**. (It looked like you were there for a while but didn’t respond when I tried to message you. Do you do Yahoo IM?) ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-scrabble-tm/449230/24 "2008-05-15T17:22:26Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] I’m going to go venture out into meat space for a while, but will try to hook up with you later, **Mad**. (It looked like you were there for a while but didn’t respond when I tried to message you. Do you do Yahoo IM?) [/QUOTE] Yeah,misterduckpuff. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2008, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-scrabble-tm/449230/25 "2008-05-22T17:25:09Z")
Update: I’ve been playing a couple of games a day with **MadTheSwine** , who’s seriously good, and who’s been really helpful in coaching me. We’ve probably played a dozen games, I won one when he ran out of time when neither of us was watching, and I won one legitimately – otherwise I’m happy just to keep him to under a 50-point lead. Brag: Just played a game with my single best scoring move ever: EXITING, with the X on a double-letter square and the whole thing across a triple-word square. Needed blanks for the I’s, and the crossing word was only worth 4. Total damage: 117 points. Damn, I’ve got the biggest shit-eating grin on my face. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2008, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-scrabble-tm/449230/26 "2008-05-22T17:59:57Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] Total damage: 117 points. Damn, I’ve got the biggest shit-eating grin on my face. [/QUOTE] I was thinkin’ anout playin’, but not now. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2008, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-scrabble-tm/449230/27 "2008-05-22T19:12:05Z")
Oh, c’mon you big sissy – it will probably be another 40 years before I have a turn like that. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-scrabble-tm/449230/28 "2008-05-23T00:28:42Z")
Against Mrs. Plant’s Better Judgment, we will take you on this evening if you like. Get your lunch money ready. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-scrabble-tm/449230/29 "2008-05-23T01:48:24Z")
I’m over in the Cloud Nine room. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-scrabble-tm/449230/30 "2008-05-23T02:11:35Z")
I am cwmorrow, she is Leah Channah. There is a thunderstorm in central Arkansas, losing the satellite ISP will be a good excuse if we are losing the game. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-scrabble-tm/449230/31 "2008-05-23T03:15:13Z")
Argh. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-scrabble-tm/449230/32 "2008-05-23T03:19:10Z")
😉 ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-scrabble-tm/449230/33 "2008-05-23T08:23:00Z")
What happened?What happened? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-scrabble-tm/449230/34 "2008-05-23T10:56:16Z")
We have taken a vow of silence. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-scrabble-tm/449230/35 "2008-05-23T12:35:55Z")
I had fifty, I can’t remember if her score was 100 or 150. 🙂 Maybe it was 1050. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-scrabble-tm/449230/36 "2008-05-23T12:47:47Z")
So much for omerta, eh, **carnivorousplant**? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-scrabble-tm/449230/37 "2008-05-23T12:50:53Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] So much for omerta, eh, **carnivorousplant**? [/QUOTE] Honesty is the best policy, my Mama always said. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-scrabble-tm/449230/38 "2008-06-18T18:27:09Z")
Really enjoying this…but every once in a while it’ll say not connecting and then tell me I have an invalid log in which I clearly don’t since I JUST signed in. Anyone else having this problem? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-scrabble-tm/449230/39 "2008-06-18T22:47:39Z")
Their server is definitely wonky. Sometimes the room won’t load, but if I try to go into a different room, it won’t let me in because I’m already logged in, even though I’m not. Log-ins expire after a half hour of inactivity, so when that happens I just go amuse myself elsewhere for half an hour. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2008, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-scrabble-tm/449230/40 "2008-06-19T00:02:00Z")
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