# Playing scrabble with the world's slowest player... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 30, 2001, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/playing-scrabble-with-the-worlds-slowest-player/70743 "2001-06-30T17:39:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**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 30, 2001, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/playing-scrabble-with-the-worlds-slowest-player/70743/1 "2001-06-30T17:39:37Z")
Sigh. Any of you guys go to [games.com](http://games.com) ever? Well I’m playing Scrabble online and my opponent is the most utterly slow person ever. I have to use that “honk” button every time before his/her turn. Are any of you guys registered at [games.com](http://games.com), and if so…I’d like to invite you to challenge me. To scrabble, or anything else. Battleship and Clue are fun but Monopoly is the bane of my existence. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mercutio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Mercutio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mercutio)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2001, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/playing-scrabble-with-the-worlds-slowest-player/70743/2 "2001-06-30T17:41:36Z")
Scrabble and Monopoly on [games.com](http://games.com) are **life.** What’s your username? ---
**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 30, 2001, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/playing-scrabble-with-the-worlds-slowest-player/70743/3 "2001-06-30T17:47:08Z")
🙂 Cool! I’m Zoggling. (Yeah, Zoggie was taken.) What’s yours? ---
**Author:** ![dobbinaire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e79b87/32.png) [@dobbinaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dobbinaire)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2001, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/playing-scrabble-with-the-worlds-slowest-player/70743/4 "2001-06-30T18:13:12Z")
I’m xobbin at [games.com](http://games.com). When are y’all gonna be playing? I love Scrabble. Hope it’s in the evening, but definitely not on Friday or Saturday nights:). ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2001, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/playing-scrabble-with-the-worlds-slowest-player/70743/5 "2001-06-30T18:19:18Z")
Why aren’t you playing on [The Zone](http://zone.msn.com/scrabble/default.asp?blnHBRedirect=True)? They have a time limit feature where you lose points if your total time exceeds (I think) 20 minutes. You have to be the game host to enable that feature, but it keeps the game moving along nicely. ---
**Author:** ![AETBOND417](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@AETBOND417](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AETBOND417)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2001, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/playing-scrabble-with-the-worlds-slowest-player/70743/6 "2001-06-30T18:35:04Z")
I only play Rogue Spear on the Zone. I’m at [Games.com](http://Games.com) as well. WPHS1. See ya there. ---
**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 30, 2001, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/playing-scrabble-with-the-worlds-slowest-player/70743/7 "2001-06-30T23:51:29Z")
I just played a kickass monopoly player and won. 🙂 Good game, **Mercutio**. 🆒 ::golf clap:: ---
**Author:** ![Mercutio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Mercutio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mercutio)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2001, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/playing-scrabble-with-the-worlds-slowest-player/70743/8 "2001-06-30T23:52:27Z")
::gnaws on Zoggie’s playing hand:: :mad: ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2001, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/playing-scrabble-with-the-worlds-slowest-player/70743/9 "2001-07-01T02:05:20Z")
I play on two Scrabble sites with my mom, and sometimes in our games it takes me four days to take a turn. That’s if I get busy at work, or my rack is so awful that I can’t bear to look at it every time I open the site. Plus we’re in a another mothr-daughter game with two women from Canada (mom’s in Nebraska, I’m in Michigan) and between the four of us, someone’s always on vacation or off doing something. No penalties on the sites for pokey play. Although… I know my mom is happy that she has quick partners on some of her other 20+ games she has going at any time. She’s a maniac! I wonder if she knows about [games.com](http://games.com)?