Cheating at scrabble

• howard mcsweeney1

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  15 August 2012     17:34187325
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  is there no pastime left that is incorruptible?
  
  
  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/scrabble-player-thrown-out-of-us-national-championship-tournament-for-cheating-8049668.html
• Guest 641

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  15 August 2012     17:53187327
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  Jehoshaphat! what a jejune jerk! it was right to make a jeremiad, a right pain in the jejunum, I cannot abide with all this jiggery-pokery
  
  Okay how many points does that give me Howard? No blanks please
• howard mcsweeney1

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  15 August 2012     17:55187328
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  actuslly barry your full name adds up to a winning score.
  
  not in poland though.
• Button

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  9 April 2024     08:02384419
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  Today's Telegraph front page reports that the Board game will become double-sided, with a simpler version underneath that requires less knowledge of the dictionary. This is said to be aimed at those who find word games intimidating, rather than removing any Polish advantage.
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• Weird Granny Slater

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  9 April 2024     09:03384423
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  Unfortunately my response scores only 12.
  
  But 'CACK' it is.
  'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
• Button

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  14 April 2024     08:14384519
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  Next up: Scramble Together. For the first time in its 75-plus year history, a new "collaborative" version of Scrabble [is being] launched in an attempt to entice Generation Z players to the traditional word-making game. The new game is designed to encourage players to work together, rather than competing against each other.
  
  It's easier than the original: instead of scoring points, players of Scrabble Together aim to work collaboratively to win "goal cards". These cards set the players challenges such as "play a word containing at least three different consonants".
  
  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68801704
  
  Well, yuk! (Can I have 'yuk'?)
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• Reginald Barrington

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  14 April 2024     10:49384527
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  "play a word containing at least three different consonants".
  
  'Yuck' ?
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  Arte et Marte
• Keith Sansum1

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  15 April 2024     07:41384534
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  Good old Howard
  Still remembered and causing debate
  Miss our chats in town
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