Scrabble

Recently I added Sophia’s junior from UPM ie. Allan in FB so that we can play Scrabble.

We started playing two games on 4 February 2010 and both games concluded two nights ago.

First Game

Allan started the game with the word ease 8 points

His 4th word was kazoo 37 points

His 7th word was platoon (bingo) 84 points (Pretty good for a first-timer)

My 7th word was yow 32 points

His 11th word was xi 40 points

My 11th word was hernias (bingo) 69 points

My 12th word was gaily 47 points

His 13th word was carps 35 points

In the end Allan scored 407 points, 24 points more than me.

Well done Allan.

Second Game

I started the game with the word wind 16 points

Allan’s 3rd word encave 33 points

His 4th word axe 39 points

My 6th word was gnow 30 points

His 6th word was syen 39 points

My 10th word was quads 37 points

His 11th word was matilda (bingo) 67 points

My 12th word was riz 32 points

My 13th word was gooly/ky 34 points

In the end I won by only 7 points.

Both games were extremely nailbiting at the end.

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The latest completed game played with my cousin.

I started the game with the word urinate 64 points

My 3rd word was jam 47 points

My 4th word was envision 65 points

My 5th word was execs 46 points

My 7th word was woke (triple word score) 48 points

My 9th word was adzing (triple word score) 81 points

My 12th word was fane 31 points

I thought I could finally hit 500 points. But it was not to be.

Still it is a personal best of 467 points.

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This is a just completed game played with my cousin.

My 1st word was wearies - 64 points

My cousin’s 2nd word was feuding - 79 points

My cousin’s 3rd word was alkynes - 93 points

My 8th word was unshout - 66 points

In the end I won by only 2 points and I would have lost if I did not start the game first. The person who makes the 1st move scores double points.

Sometimes I do not even know a word exists until I check the Scrabble dictionary. The dictionary not only says that the word is valid but gives the meaning of the word most of the time.

For instance, according to the Scrabble dictionary, the word unshout means revoke (an earlier statement) by shouting a contrary one. I would not have known this word exists.

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I scored 86 points for the last word GIDDIEST. This is the second time I could use all my tiles for the last word.

But I still lost this game by 12 points cos my cousin’s first word FAIRGOERS scored 98 points ie. exactly a difference of 12 points between our bingo word.

So close and yet so far.

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Tonight I scored the highest score ever I think in my history of playing this game.

The word WAITERS with the letter S touching on the triple word score totalling 101 points.