Re: Scrabble, Officially

bill van wrote:
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> In article <76SdnZVbbK81s3banZ2dnUVZ_g-dnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>  huey.callison@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
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> > jeffinputnam <jeffinputnam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > > N Jill Marsh wrote:
> > > > jeffinputnam <jeffinputnam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > > >> I've been playing Scrabulous on Facebook of late and I'm
wondering
> > > >> if there is an "official" electronic Scrabble game.
> > > > I hope not, playing Scrabulous is stressful enough for me.  I'm
glad
> > > > I didn't play this game as a kid, it makes my head all hurty.
> > > Me too. What kind of words are AA and QI and AR and ETIC and AB and
> > > RIA . I need a scrabble game that plays more like *I* do. Here at
the
> > > house we use the MW Collegiate dictionary... like normal people.
> >
> > I remember a friend had a computer scrabble game that I think was
> > official, and that ****er pulled all kinds of that 'QI' and 'AR' ****.
> > So eventually we created a new game, which we called 'Scribble'. It
was
> > basically scrabble, but we rearranged the rules a little: you had to
use
> > dictionary words, until the computer cheated, and at that point, you
> > could cheat, with the following qualifiers:
> > 1) It had to look like a word, with vowels and consonants in roughly
the
> >  places where you'd expect them to be in something that looked like a
word
> > 2) You had to pronounce it, and
> > 3) You had to define it convincingly.
> >
> > This is how we determined that 'quijybo' is a game played in the south
> > sahara with rocks and a bucket, and 'zidjiots' are the little metal
> > spring-clips that hold wind****eld wipers on. (Triple word score on
that
> > ****er, too!) And, you'd put the word in, and the computer would say
> > "That doesn't look like a word. Are you sure?", and we'd say "If 'QI'
is
> > a word, you're goddamn right that 'QUIJYBO' is a word, you piece of
> > ****", and have another beer. And it would dutifully add QUIJYBO to
the
> > dictionary. So, over time, the dictionary the computer was using got
> > more and more surreal, and the words got more and more creative.
> 
> I couldn't play a game in which the rules can be changed as you go. That
> would be like real life, and surely we play games to get away from that.
> 

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