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At the end of our most recent Scrabble game, I was thinking tactically, counted S's on the board, and played on the conclusion that ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cattitude had the last S. He then put down his last five letters to spell "beret." I hadn't miscounted--we're missing an S.
This goes some way to explain why the previous few games had been frustrating [1]. We have looked around a bit, and not found it. The next step may be more thorough cleaning (not a bad thing in any case, if I can avoid it setting off too much sneezing); playing with the travel set for a while; asking around to see if anyone has a spare S in the appropriate shade of brown [we have an earlier set which we replaced after losing letters, but it's of a significantly lighter wood, so it would be obvious that that was an S]; or just going and buying yet another set. Our third in 22 years, which isn't so horrible, but still feels slightly wasteful. Yes, I know Selchow and Richter at one time offered free replacement tiles--but even if the offer stands, it leaves us with the color matching problem. Cattitude suggested mixing half and half, but given how often we play, we'd memorize some of the shade-letter associations even if we tried not to.
[1] Even with a full set of letters, sometimes the randomized letter selections turn up lots of frustrating combinations, too many hands with all vowels or all consonants or four of a kind. But removing an S wouldn't help.
Addendum: Hasbro, which now own Scrabble, will sell entire sets of replacement tiles, but no longer single tiles.
cattitude had the last S. He then put down his last five letters to spell "beret." I hadn't miscounted--we're missing an S.This goes some way to explain why the previous few games had been frustrating [1]. We have looked around a bit, and not found it. The next step may be more thorough cleaning (not a bad thing in any case, if I can avoid it setting off too much sneezing); playing with the travel set for a while; asking around to see if anyone has a spare S in the appropriate shade of brown [we have an earlier set which we replaced after losing letters, but it's of a significantly lighter wood, so it would be obvious that that was an S]; or just going and buying yet another set. Our third in 22 years, which isn't so horrible, but still feels slightly wasteful. Yes, I know Selchow and Richter at one time offered free replacement tiles--but even if the offer stands, it leaves us with the color matching problem. Cattitude suggested mixing half and half, but given how often we play, we'd memorize some of the shade-letter associations even if we tried not to.
[1] Even with a full set of letters, sometimes the randomized letter selections turn up lots of frustrating combinations, too many hands with all vowels or all consonants or four of a kind. But removing an S wouldn't help.
Addendum: Hasbro, which now own Scrabble, will sell entire sets of replacement tiles, but no longer single tiles.
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