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March51
March51 Posts: 3,256
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After a barbie yesterday evening we were sitting about chatting but within twenty minutes or so my wife, daughter and son-in-law all had their 'phones out and were playing Scrabble, not only with each other but with complete strangers they've never met or are ever likely to. The technology required to do this is of course beyond me but it struck me that the mobile seems to have taken over from the TV as the conversation killer of our time. I understand my son is involved in eleven separate games of Scrabble so is it just my family or is there a lot of it about?

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  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,443
    I play Scrabble online. Recently spent the best part of two wonderful weeks banging the living grandmother out of a Canadian girl I met in a game of online Scrabble. Don't knock it until you've tried it :)
  • BIG_ROB
    BIG_ROB Posts: 5,274
    I use to play all the time through Facebook, not done it in a while though. Apparently its been "updated" and is now a load of old tut
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    Leroy Ambrose said:

    I play Scrabble online. Recently spent the best part of two wonderful weeks banging the living grandmother out of a Canadian girl I met in a game of online Scrabble. Don't knock it until you've tried it :)

    That's what you call a quadruple word score.

    Were there any blanks?

  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,443
    Addickted said:

    Leroy Ambrose said:

    I play Scrabble online. Recently spent the best part of two wonderful weeks banging the living grandmother out of a Canadian girl I met in a game of online Scrabble. Don't knock it until you've tried it :)

    That's what you call a quadruple word score.

    Were there any blanks?

    Plenty of blankety blanking in the blank.
  • tangoflash
    tangoflash Posts: 10,786
    Pretty redundant game these days, considering how no-one can spell. Are text abbreviations allowed?
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,894
    does everyone get huge scores as they just look up the best words possible?
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,443
    MrOneLung said:

    does everyone get huge scores as they just look up the best words possible?

    Plenty of people do this - and it's patently obvious when they are. Drives me insane - what's the bloody point of playing Scrabble against a computer?
  • rikofold
    rikofold Posts: 4,051
    Leroy Ambrose said:

    MrOneLung said:

    does everyone get huge scores as they just look up the best words possible?

    Plenty of people do this - and it's patently obvious when they are. Drives me insane - what's the bloody point of playing Scrabble against a computer?
    This. I've just started playing my cousin, I won the first game despite some dubious words appearing her side. Just started our second and she's just laid ASCARIDES for 80. I know her well enough to know that's not a word to pop into her head. Cheating tart.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,381
    edited August 2013
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  • Viewfinder
    Viewfinder Posts: 4,913
    How did Lincs manage to get a comment about Scrabble censored (above)? Is it like the bird on Countdown putting up FELLATIO?

    I don't see how Scrabble works online - how do you know your opponent isn't fishing in the dictionary?

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  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,381
    Viewfinder said:

    How did Lincs manage to get a comment about Scrabble censored (above)? Is it like the bird on Countdown putting up FELLATIO?

    I don't see how Scrabble works online - how do you know your opponent isn't fishing in the dictionary?

    no .. I was trying to be clever and to post a scrabble type entry .. the system 'left adjusts' on saving and I just had a mess .. anyway, my posts are always non-controversial and always in the best possible taste
  • Viewfinder
    Viewfinder Posts: 4,913
    Lincsaddick said:

    Viewfinder said:

    How did Lincs manage to get a comment about Scrabble censored (above)? Is it like the bird on Countdown putting up FELLATIO?

    I don't see how Scrabble works online - how do you know your opponent isn't fishing in the dictionary?

    no .. I was trying to be clever and to post a scrabble type entry .. the system 'left adjusts' on saving and I just had a mess .. anyway, my posts are always non-controversial and always in the best possible taste
    Naturally, Lincs: naturally.

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