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I don't normally post about Scrabble, but want to note that I just ended with two play-all-the-letters 50-point bonuses: AQUAMARINES (on existing AQUA) and YEARLIES, both on triple-word scores. ("MARINES" would be an ordinary play: an eleven-letter word feels special, and would have even if it hadn't been over 100 points total.)
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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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 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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I feel like I'm up too early. Or rather, that I got up too early--I've been awake for an hour, have made and drunk a mug of tea, and been online for a bit now. That's not just the calendar, I think--it's that I'm not used to being up this much before papersky. We did all go to bed early, but that should affect people equally. I suspect this is an effect of not being in my usual bed.
Yesterday was quiet quality time, a backrub, used books (I letrysmiel convince me that I needed to buy Salman Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children), Cha Noir for tea and Scrabble, and dinner at the Peruvian where we noted that we're looking forward to Quebec giving rysmiel the birthday gift of making all restaurants smoke-free. Scrabble in English with the French letter distribution is amusing--there are too many u's, but the extra three e's didn't seem to be a problem. I woke up this morning thinking "lycee," after we'd been trying and failing to think of a native French word (i.e., not "yak") of more than one letter with a y in it. In French Scrabble, y and k are ten-point letters.
papersky. We did all go to bed early, but that should affect people equally. I suspect this is an effect of not being in my usual bed.Yesterday was quiet quality time, a backrub, used books (I let
rysmiel convince me that I needed to buy Salman Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children), Cha Noir for tea and Scrabble, and dinner at the Peruvian where we noted that we're looking forward to Quebec giving rysmiel the birthday gift of making all restaurants smoke-free. Scrabble in English with the French letter distribution is amusing--there are too many u's, but the extra three e's didn't seem to be a problem. I woke up this morning thinking "lycee," after we'd been trying and failing to think of a native French word (i.e., not "yak") of more than one letter with a y in it. In French Scrabble, y and k are ten-point letters.I feel like I'm up too early. Or rather, that I got up too early--I've been awake for an hour, have made and drunk a mug of tea, and been online for a bit now. That's not just the calendar, I think--it's that I'm not used to being up this much before papersky. We did all go to bed early, but that should affect people equally. I suspect this is an effect of not being in my usual bed.
Yesterday was quiet quality time, a backrub, used books (I letrysmiel convince me that I needed to buy Salman Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children), Cha Noir for tea and Scrabble, and dinner at the Peruvian where we noted that we're looking forward to Quebec giving rysmiel the birthday gift of making all restaurants smoke-free. Scrabble in English with the French letter distribution is amusing--there are too many u's, but the extra three e's didn't seem to be a problem. I woke up this morning thinking "lycee," after we'd been trying and failing to think of a native French word (i.e., not "yak") of more than one letter with a y in it. In French Scrabble, y and k are ten-point letters.
papersky. We did all go to bed early, but that should affect people equally. I suspect this is an effect of not being in my usual bed.Yesterday was quiet quality time, a backrub, used books (I let
rysmiel convince me that I needed to buy Salman Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children), Cha Noir for tea and Scrabble, and dinner at the Peruvian where we noted that we're looking forward to Quebec giving rysmiel the birthday gift of making all restaurants smoke-free. Scrabble in English with the French letter distribution is amusing--there are too many u's, but the extra three e's didn't seem to be a problem. I woke up this morning thinking "lycee," after we'd been trying and failing to think of a native French word (i.e., not "yak") of more than one letter with a y in it. In French Scrabble, y and k are ten-point letters.I just scored 601 points in a Scrabble game with cattitude, including a very impressive ending: two seven-letter words in a row. I finished by putting "reuniter" across two triple word scores, for 140 points, plus 14 for the letters he had in his hand.
(I got him to take a few digital photos of the final board; I'll try to remember to upload and link one later.)
cattitude, including a very impressive ending: two seven-letter words in a row. I finished by putting "reuniter" across two triple word scores, for 140 points, plus 14 for the letters he had in his hand.(I got him to take a few digital photos of the final board; I'll try to remember to upload and link one later.)
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I just scored 601 points in a Scrabble game with cattitude, including a very impressive ending: two seven-letter words in a row. I finished by putting "reuniter" across two triple word scores, for 140 points, plus 14 for the letters he had in his hand.
(I got him to take a few digital photos of the final board; I'll try to remember to upload and link one later.)
cattitude, including a very impressive ending: two seven-letter words in a row. I finished by putting "reuniter" across two triple word scores, for 140 points, plus 14 for the letters he had in his hand.(I got him to take a few digital photos of the final board; I'll try to remember to upload and link one later.)
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