TheBanyanTree: From Queen Honey to Word Games

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I love a sentence that starts with "losing doesn't bother me" and ends with
"that's cheating!!!"  Hmmmm.

I suppose you could just randomly put tiles down and hope for the best.
 Not sure why anyone would bother.  Kinda defeats the whole purpose of
playing a word game.  In real Scrabble - at our house anyway - we don't
really do the challenge thing.  If we aren't sure about how a word is
spelled, we ask the other player or one of us looks it up.  No reading
through the dictionary looking for a good word, but if we aren't sure, then
the dictionary is there.  If someone plays a word that looks fishy, we
might say "what does that mean?" and check for accuracy, but we don't
consider the "bluff" or the "gotcha" to add anything to the pleasure of the
word game.  And if everyone knows the rules and plays by them, how is that
cheating?

My play style is not conducive to winning (See I would have had to ask if
conducive had 2 c's or an s).  I like long words and I like cool little
words that fit into the grid to make more little words.  Sometimes those
give you points and sometimes they don't.  I play them anyway.  I think I
win about 2/3 of the games I play

Yeah - Pam kicks scrabble butt.  No surprise there.  She's a sharp cookie
with mad word skillz!!

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 5:51 AM, Julie Anna Teague <jateague at indiana.edu>wrote:

> Quoting Jena <eudora45 at sbcglobal.net>:
>
>
>  I don't play Words with Friends anymore. Despite my vast vocabulary, I
>>>> kept
>>>> losing to people who should not have been winning. In whose opinion?
>>>> Well,
>>>> mine of course!
>>>>
>>>
> Ha!  Losing doesn't bother me, actually.  Good thing, because I lose
> regularly and I don't think I've ever beat Pam!  But the thing that bugs me
> most about Words with Friends (and I do still play it) is that I consider
> it "Scrabble for cheaters".  Because in real scrabble, you play your word,
> and if someone challenges you and you look it up and it's not a real word,
> then you have to take it off and lose your turn.  In Words with Friends,
> you find out it's not a real word and you get to try again and again and
> again.  You can try anything you want until it takes. That's cheating!!!
>
> I got a Words with Friends request this weekend from a person I knew when
> we were kids, and haven't seen since.  I sent him a message that said, "I
> think the last game we played together was wiffle ball up on the corner in
> Otwell when we were 10!"
>
>
>
>


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