# Scrabble

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrabble/17101>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 30, 2000, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrabble/17101 "2000-04-30T00:06:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 11\
**Page:** 2

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**Author:** ![Dystopos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e79b87/32.png) [@Dystopos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dystopos)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2000, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrabble/17101/21 "2000-05-01T04:00:32Z")

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> [@](#):
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> You, sir, are absolutely correct. I owe you a big thank you (and so does my score after my next Scrabble game with my wife 🙂
> 
> Zev Steinhardt  
> \*\*

Now when you say _ **score** _ – How romantic do you think those Scrabble-embedded proposals are, exactly? 😉

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**Author:** ![CuriousCanuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@CuriousCanuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CuriousCanuck)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrabble/17101/22 "2003-02-08T02:13:28Z")

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sure… Satan is banned… I have no idea why and now I will never know all legal words that end in a… or the Real Question of all the legal words in scrabble containing the letter “E” that are between 3 and 8 letters.

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**Author:** ![CuriousCanuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@CuriousCanuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CuriousCanuck)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrabble/17101/23 "2003-02-08T02:23:33Z")

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wow… I just noticed the date. Almost 3 years… I wonder if it qualifies as one of the longest unintentional _bumps_. 🙂

But any Scrabble thread is a good thread.

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**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrabble/17101/24 "2003-02-08T02:25:15Z")

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That post was reckoned to be the longest post on the boards, scrollwise.

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**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrabble/17101/25 "2003-02-08T03:25:56Z")

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I’m just sitting here dazed. This was my thread. I remember that Scrabble night. I’ve just been transported back three years in time.

Thank you, **CuriousCanuck**.

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**Author:** ![CuriousCanuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@CuriousCanuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CuriousCanuck)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrabble/17101/26 "2003-02-08T03:30:01Z")

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Thanks for watching my time traveeling magic show kids!

Try the veal!

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**Author:** ![Opus1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/858c86/32.png) [@Opus1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Opus1)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrabble/17101/27 "2003-02-08T03:31:16Z")

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CuriousCanuck–I have a freeware program called Lexpert that can easily generate a list of all the acceptable Scrabble words ending in A, or containing an E. It’s available at [www.carolravi.com/lexpert](http://www.carolravi.com/lexpert).

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**Author:** ![CuriousCanuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@CuriousCanuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CuriousCanuck)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrabble/17101/28 "2003-02-08T03:32:23Z")

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your link is broken ☹

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**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrabble/17101/29 "2003-02-08T03:38:23Z")

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That’s because vB included the period at the end when auto-generating the link. This works: [http://www.carolravi.com/lexpert](http://www.carolravi.com/lexpert)

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**Author:** ![CuriousCanuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@CuriousCanuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CuriousCanuck)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrabble/17101/30 "2003-02-08T03:38:48Z")

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D’oH!

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**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrabble/17101/31 "2003-02-08T17:41:29Z")

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I’m kinda dazed that no one bothered to look at the box top to check the rules–unless it was a version in which the instructions were on a separate sheet that had been lost over time, which does happen with games.

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