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Old 07-20-2010, 10:10 AM   #1
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Weird Scrabble Words

I play scrabble on FB and some of the words that pop up on my tray are sorta funny.
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Old 07-20-2010, 10:23 AM   #2
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A subliminal message, Nirvana?

Here's a geek version of the game.
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Old 07-20-2010, 12:05 PM   #3
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Proper nouns! Where's the Rulebook? LOL!
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Old 07-20-2010, 02:00 PM   #4
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I thought you were going to be listing those words that involve X or Q without a U.

I once blundered across a Scrabble championship on some cable channel. The tension was palpable. The players were down to letters like X, Q, and Z and they were STILL PLAYING. Also, the two guys didn't look like stereotypical word-geeks. They looked like redneck truckers.

It was a bit strange for me.

I have a large vocabulary, but seem to attract unusable letters when playing Scrabble, therefore I am not very good at it. We keep an emergency Scrabble Board in the office just in case we have a really long lull at work and want to interact rather than just stare at the computer screen. I have travel versions of Rummikub and Triominoes in the car for similar emergencies.
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Old 07-20-2010, 02:40 PM   #5
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I have started playing Wordwise on my Android phone & I'm enjoying it. You can really get some weird combinations where you try to get extra points by lining up next to an existing word instead of at right angles.

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Old 07-20-2010, 03:24 PM   #6
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Old 07-20-2010, 04:20 PM   #7
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Nirvana, can you give us the link to FB? I'd like to play!
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Old 07-20-2010, 04:52 PM   #8
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I thought you were going to be listing those words that involve X or Q without a U.

I once blundered across a Scrabble championship on some cable channel. The tension was palpable. The players were down to letters like X, Q, and Z and they were STILL PLAYING. Also, the two guys didn't look like stereotypical word-geeks. They looked like redneck truckers.

It was a bit strange for me.
Work Freak by Stefan Fatsis is a great insight into the world of competitive scrabble. Apparently certain parks are the places to go to play -where you find all sorts of characters you wouldn't immediately peg as Scrabblers. There's a whole etiquette to joining in, though. I thoroughly recommend the book if you have any interest in that sort of thing.
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Old 07-20-2010, 06:48 PM   #9
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Here is the link SamIam

http://apps.facebook.com/ea_scrabble...anvas_bkmk_top

One of the weirdest words I have gotten so far is faggoty my spell check here claims its not a word but the scrabble dictionary says it is.
Today I got ebonix scrabble words
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Old 07-23-2010, 10:02 PM   #10
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A friend of mine played SUQS in the FB scrabble. No no no.
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Old 08-07-2010, 11:25 AM   #11
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NSFW!!!

It's a dirty game but someone has to play it!!
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Old 08-07-2010, 11:38 AM   #12
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Old 10-31-2010, 11:29 PM   #13
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Old 11-01-2010, 12:38 AM   #14
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Old 11-01-2010, 04:02 AM   #15
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A friend of mine played SUQS in the FB scrabble. No no no.
I have abandoned all my Scrabble principles since I started playing FB Scrabble. If it's acceptable, use it because it's all about winning and then rubbing it in the face of the person you won the game against-particularly if it's in the staffroom.
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