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Old 01-12-2008, 3:03 PM   #1
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Default 'Scrabble – an easy way to win' blog discussion
This is the discussion to link on the back of Martin's blog. Please read the blog first, as this discussion follows it.



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Old 01-12-2008, 4:27 PM   #2
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Thumbs up Delinked
It's a perfectly cromulent word.
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Old 01-12-2008, 6:12 PM   #3
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Yes, he really embiggened his role as consumer expert by using such a cromulent word.
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Old 01-12-2008, 7:16 PM   #4
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The made-up word "delinked" is not permitted in Scrabble. Either in the UK, or the nasty foreign US or "international" version.

So there.


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Old 01-12-2008, 9:35 PM   #5
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I don't write a newspaper column. Is there any hope for me?


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Old 01-12-2008, 11:17 PM   #6
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Would it be embarrassing to say I play scrabble online as the Mrs doesn't like it?


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Old 02-12-2008, 10:28 AM   #7
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Now I knew that you had a real competitive edge to you Martin, but I wouldn't have thought that you would go to such lengths to beat your beloved at scrabble. I think you need to apologise to her and grovel for a bit.

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Old 02-12-2008, 10:59 AM   #8
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Would it be embarrassing to say I play scrabble online as the Mrs doesn't like it?
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Didn't know this was possible.
Goodie, this joyful news has me farctate, let me now absquatulate. . . .


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Old 02-12-2008, 11:26 AM   #9
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Didn't know this was possible.
Goodie, this joyful news has me farctate, let me now absquatulate. . . .
http://www.isc.ro/ a tad addictive. It is free, although you can pay for membership if you want to.


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Old 02-12-2008, 2:33 PM   #10
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Making up words? Next you'll be telling us you "accidentally" knock the board over when you're losing.

I know I do!
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Old 02-12-2008, 2:53 PM   #11
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http://www.isc.ro/ a tad addictive. It is free, although you can pay for membership if you want to.
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I'll blame you, Airwolf.
I've tried to go on this thing but it doesn't give me new letters when a word is done.
I see the commands at the bottom of the board on Help, but they don't appear on mine. It's just stuck on 'seek a game'. Other person began; I've done mine and now nothing.
Lots of typos on the site, too.
Help, please?


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I thought that when there was a question of whether or not a valid word was being used one of the other players had to challenge it. Reference would then be made to the players' dictionary of choice - usually the one in the house. If the word was there it was accepted and the score given. In some groups the challenger was penalised if the word was in the dictionary, in others not.
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Old 04-12-2008, 7:51 PM   #13
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Some use the Official Scrabble Words books!!

Ampersand, I've pm'd you.


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