NOT UNEXPECTED, CONSIDERING THE HIGH STAKES
Scrabble player caught cheating at US event
(Thanks to tc and The Perts)
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August 15, 2012
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Not a resume item, cheating at scrabble.
Posted by: Omniskeptic | August 15, 2012 at 05:16 PM
There are at least a dozen websites listing cheat apps for the smartphone version of scrabble. I don't understand the point of using something like that unless, of course, money were involved.
Posted by: WVplantman | August 15, 2012 at 05:31 PM
Is sandpaper legal?
Posted by: Ralph | August 15, 2012 at 05:37 PM
My Mom, God rest her soul, tried to use Pfft as a word when we played.
She was 80, was my mom, gave me the "look." She got to use the word.
Posted by: MikeyVA | August 15, 2012 at 06:57 PM
Mikey ~ Pfft
Posted by: Ms. Flukey | August 15, 2012 at 07:53 PM
xciting?
Posted by: Wolfsong | August 15, 2012 at 10:51 PM
This happened, of course, in Florida.
Posted by: wiredog | August 16, 2012 at 07:48 AM
The Scrabble world is abuzz? Couldn't it only be abuz(blank tile)?
When I was going through my parents' papers and pictures, I encountered THE TILE that was the subject of much consternation. The missing U was small stuff where the special rule was created so that the person who drew the Q could declare and get a credit for having the vowel after three turns. The F that disappeared was almost the cause of armed violence.
The F sits next to my Mom's AP Stylebook, LA Times Stylebook and Scrabble Dictionary and my Turabian and Strunk & White.
Posted by: Not My Usual Alias | August 16, 2012 at 08:47 AM
I love Scrabble, but am baffled about some of the words they allow vs. not. There is a completely legitimate word, OXER, that is a kind of horse jump. It's in every dictionary but Scrabble doesn't allow it.
Posted by: Guin | August 16, 2012 at 10:09 AM
PSST Guin --
It's part of the Scrabble conspiracy
Posted by: Not My Usual Alias | August 16, 2012 at 12:40 PM
When asked to explain, he drew a blank.
Posted by: mazar larry | August 16, 2012 at 03:00 PM
snork at ML
Posted by: Not My Usual Alias | August 16, 2012 at 03:28 PM