A Conversation for The Annoyances of Scrabble
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Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) Posted Feb 5, 2004
NOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooo!
(US or UK?)
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Bagpuss Posted Feb 5, 2004
Is there a difference? You're allowed American spellings in the UK.
I'd understood the rule as being anything that is written without punctuation (including capital letters, but excluding accents) is okay and anything else is not. So "ad" is allowed, but not "co".
Incidentally, our Concise Oxford lists "nth", so I'd insist on being allowed that, even if I think it a bit odd. I suppose the criterion is how it appears in normal writing, not mathematical, though.
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Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) Posted Feb 6, 2004
We allow American Spellings? Yes but not necessarily American Words...
I'm not sure what the rules are for valid rules anymore - its begining to seem like its anything anybody has ever written down!
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Mu Beta Posted Feb 6, 2004
As far as I'm concerned, if it's in Chambers, it's a valid word.
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Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) Posted Feb 6, 2004
I thought that was the rule, not to include abbreviations (although some seem to be OK)... 
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Mu Beta Posted Feb 6, 2004
And indeed vice versa. 
Maybe I should've said everything in Chambers that doesn't begin with a capital letter.
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Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) Posted Feb 9, 2004
Checked an Official Scrabble Words book over the w/e - pH is allowed!!! 
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Bagpuss Posted Feb 9, 2004
*rolls eyes*
This is why I think it can be good to use a normal single-volume dictionary whilst playing; you don't get all the incredibly weird ones in.
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Orcus Posted Feb 11, 2004
Ah, well better than the
"be good at scrabble" answer I was expecting. 
I guess you've got to go out and join a society and then you'll hear about such things. It's taking things a little far for my liking.
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Mu Beta Posted May 13, 2004
**kicks new life into the thread**
The other night, playing against the computer (how sad is that, exactly?), I clocked up my highest score for one turn, not using all my letters. I managed to drop 'QUIZ' onto a treble-word with the Z on a double-letter. 96 points, please!
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Orcus Posted May 14, 2004
Nice one 
I once scored over a hundred but I can't remember the word. It spanned two triple word scores but contained only poor value letters and a blank tile. Still it was nice
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Pimms Posted Jul 19, 2004
Was anyone else on this thread aware of the entry Bluemooner wrote about Grabble A2284490?
It isn't an on-line forum game, but may provide new life to games with ones SO.
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