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touron Member
Joined: 15 Sep 2003 Posts: 10293 | TRs | Pics Location: Plymouth Rock |
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touron
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Thu Oct 24, 2013 9:12 pm
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Hmmm....some interesting Scrabble tips here, though they forgot the one I use most frequently: "Trade in all of your tiles and start again from scratch."
Touron is a nougat of Arabic origin made with almonds and honey or sugar, without which it would just not be Christmas in Spain.
Touron is a nougat of Arabic origin made with almonds and honey or sugar, without which it would just not be Christmas in Spain.
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Frosty Member
Joined: 30 Dec 2012 Posts: 173 | TRs | Pics Location: A bit north of the northwest... |
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Fri Oct 25, 2013 7:36 am
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The most fun I've had playing scrabble was with the John deere version I had bought for my son for Christmas last year. Everyone laughed at the thought that just because it had to do with machines a 21 year old would like it. We played without keeping score, and while the box had a few farm related words that you would get extra points for, being farm people and a mechanic, every time one of us would put down a word remotely related to farming, we'd say ' that would be double points if we were keeping score!'
Without scorekeeping the game went faster too...
Frosty,
Lucky enough to live where it snows in the winter!
Frosty,
Lucky enough to live where it snows in the winter!
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Mtn Dog Technohiker
Joined: 01 Aug 2004 Posts: 3336 | TRs | Pics Location: Bellevue, WA |
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Mon Oct 28, 2013 9:19 pm
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I love Scrabble. It's quite a challenging game for even a mediocre vocabulary. But I highly recommend Super Scrabble over the traditional game. It's got twice as many letters, a much larger board, quadruple word scores, and a much better letter distribution.
Footprints on the sands of time will never be made sitting down.
Footprints on the sands of time will never be made sitting down.
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Gray Lazy Hiker
Joined: 25 Aug 2006 Posts: 1059 | TRs | Pics Location: Seattle, WA |
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Tue Oct 29, 2013 12:13 pm
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Hmmm. No mention of what I think is the best trick, if your goal is to win more often:
Memorize the appropriate 2-letter word list. I used to play fairly seriously, and memorizing the American list (as well as focusing on forcing the board into a tight cluster) had the biggest impact on my average score of anything I tried.
--Gray
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tigermn Member
Joined: 10 Jul 2007 Posts: 9242 | TRs | Pics Location: There... |
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Wed Oct 30, 2013 10:19 am
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At least the iPad app now lets you play against a computer instead of having to play a real opponent.
Always funny to have it show you the best word you COULD HAVE made for usually like 77 points vs the paltry 15 pointer you came up with.
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touron Member
Joined: 15 Sep 2003 Posts: 10293 | TRs | Pics Location: Plymouth Rock |
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Sun Aug 24, 2014 9:14 am
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Touron is a nougat of Arabic origin made with almonds and honey or sugar, without which it would just not be Christmas in Spain.
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joker seeker
Joined: 12 Aug 2006 Posts: 7953 | TRs | Pics Location: state of confusion |
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Sun Aug 24, 2014 9:17 am
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Gray wrote: | Memorize the appropriate 2-letter word list. |
I keep meaning to do this for bananagrams and scrabble. Maybe if we have a true nasty El Nino winter...
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wildernessed viewbagger
Joined: 31 Oct 2004 Posts: 9275 | TRs | Pics Location: Wenatchee |
Love Scrabble played it with my great grandmother, grand mother, and mother since I was in elementary school. Now I play it on my phone solitary against the app. I currently am beating the computer 70% of the time with an average word score of 21 points on the hardest level "extremely difficult". The computer makes it harder by giving you lower value pieces and multiple vowels. I think beyond being a creative speller you have to play strategically capitalizing on double and triple letter / word scores while also blocking the opponents or computers opportunities by playing defense. Denying big scoring moves is as important as making big scoring words. The only game I play.
Living in the Anthropocene
Living in the Anthropocene
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