Farmer Drama

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Useful scrabble words

As I play an average of probably 50 scrabble games a week online I come across quite a few new words.  Some of them are ones that are played against me.  Others are ones that I've learnt from scrabble books or word lists.  So I've started  a new list on this blog (in the side panel) with words that I like, along with their meanings.  Eg alulae, paua, babu, eik, boke and grok.  I'll just keep adding to it and then I might remember them for next time!

The game shown here is a weird one.  It was played using the MULTI dictionary - a mixture of english, french and romanian!  I didn't realise until I started playing - which maybe why I lost so badly!  (Click on the image to see a larger version.)

Playing the national Scrabble champion of Pakistan

Today I played the five-times national Scrabble champion of Pakistan - and almost won! That's the beauty of online scrabble at www.isc.ro. You never know who you are going to play. Abdul Jabbar played a few beauts including "trez" and "fard" on the triple-word for 69 - but I was in the lead for a while.  You can see the final board here (click for a larger image).  I played blue.  The final score was 411 (Jabbar) to 354 (Farmer). I played a few online matches today and my favourite bingo was "puttees" - aren't they a type of trouser?

Scrabble

I like playing scrabble online.  This is one of my luckier games (click on the board to see a larger image). Actually I'm hooked on online scrabble.  I play through www.isc.ro where you download a small file to your computer and then you can play live, going up and down the league according to your scores.  I usually tend to favour fast games (eg 3 minutes max per player). Lately I have got even nerdier and started learning words - without even knowing what they mean.  Words like anestria, creatin, cantier and aalii.