'New Scrabble Rules Must Be a Joke - Is it a late April Fool?' blog discussion

shazra56_2

What a load of rubbish, Scrabble has been played in the same way for many years and I also enjoy the game the way it is. I know nothing about 'so called celebrities' and agree with the other Forum member on who will decide who is a 'celebrity'. Is this just a publicity stunt or a way to get people to buy another Scrabble set just to get the new rules? I will carry on as I do now playing the real way!!:mad:

stuartmck

From what I understand, it's not just 'Celebrity' names that will be allowed - all proper nouns will be.

Gordon_the_Moron

All proper nouns will be allowed, think I need to have a first name dictionary on hand any time I play the new version.

Think its a dumb idea but just ignore it and play the old version.

Cardew

On a slightly different tack, is there a decent computer version of Scrabble that plays on VISTA and Windows 7.

I have the old version that plays on XP but not on Vista/Win 7.

I know there is a non-Mattel version, but every review I have read states it is a disaster.

grahamm

Cardew wrote: »

On a slightly different tack, is there a decent computer version of Scrabble that plays on VISTA and Windows 7.

If you want to play against others all over the world (excluding the USA and Canada due to Hasbro and Mattel squabbling over licence rights!) check out Gamehouse Scrabble on Facebook.

renegade

grahamm wrote: »

If you want to play against others all over the world (excluding the USA and Canada due to Hasbro and Mattel squabbling over licence rights!) check out Gamehouse Scrabble on Facebook.

The day that Gamehouse Scrabble change the rules is the day I stop playing on line, we don't need change for change sake, we just need what we have, a good game of Scrabble playing people from all over the world (ex USA/Canada)

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"Can you come up with the top-class footballer whose name would score the highest using standard Scrabble scoring?" begins Alistair Murdoch. "I've tried this in tennis, where Novak Djokovic and Caroline Wozniacki score well, but wondered how the concept would work in football?"
Board games and football? That sounds like nerd-vana to us. Keeping in mind all the rules of the game – seven letters in your rack, only one Q and one Z, triple-word scores and the like – and after considerable research, we've come up with not-entirely-out-of-the-question scenario:
Move one
Not a great start for player one – he's shanked the kick-off straight out for a throw-in. Always feels like a wasted opportunity when this happens. Despite the double word score for the centre square, QPR's silver-haired midfield battler Shaun DERRY only picks up a meagre 18 points. Maybe he should have thought about putting that Y on the double letter square. Oh well, too late now. Rummage in that velvet bag for five new letters and hope for the best.
Move two
And player two responds in emphatic style, the Scrabble equivalent of a bullet back-post header from the first corner of the game. Arsenal's Millwall-bound youngster Craig EASTMOND brings in a hefty 72 points – 22 for the word itself (with a double word score) and 50 bonus points for using all seven letters in the rack. That's how to open your account. It's offered the opportunity on the triple word score on the top row, but how bad can it be?
Move three - paydirt
Very bad. Player one has come up with a beauty. In fact, we reckon this might be as good as it gets – Arsenal's young Polish goalkeeper Wojciech SZCZESNY. Time for the maths: the word itself racks up 21 points (with one Z a blank tile), but that Z on the double letter score takes us up to 31. Two triple word scores takes us to 279, and then the 50 point bonus for using up all the tiles means a monumental 329 points for player two.
Reckon you could do better than 329 points?