On Thu, 15 May 2008 20:01:37 -0400, Boron Elgar
<boron_elgar@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>On Thu, 15 May 2008 18:21:26 -0500, "Anny Middon"
><AnnyMiddon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>"Boron Elgar" <boron_elgar@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>>>
>>> If you play over in Scrabulous, you can get 9 letters on the rack with
>>> some regularity. Interesting flaw in the program.
>>>
>>
>>Can you use all 9 in one play? If so, do you score a bingo for playing
7
>>letters, or do you have to play all 9?
>>
>>Clearly I've never played Scrabulous.
>>
>>Anny
>>
>The game falls apart if it gives you 9 tiles. Sometimes it had
>credited my next play to the robot, then told me I haven't put down
>any tiles, won't let me put down any tiles, and I just throw in the
>towel and start a new game.
>
>I beat that bastard robot by 149 pts yesterday, though. The trick is
>to stay ahead of the robot, because if it gets ahead, it closes up the
>board so tightly, that it is impossible to get any large words put
>down.
>
>And I have taken to playing all sorts of wild combinations of letters
>against RobotCoupe (as I call it), even if it is a wild guess that it
>might be a word. Not a talent applicable to playing in real life, but
>I have seen some really weird new words go by and made great points
>off of them.
>
>Boron
Wow, RobotCoupe. I haven't seen, nor heard, that word since 1979-80,
when I worked fast food, and that was the food processor. It was used
for exactly one purpose, said use disremembered at this time. Not
'taters. Maybe 'maters.
Wait, wait, wait, I remembered! Hardboiled eggs for the salad bar.
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Pauly-hot 'n juicy
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