On 16 May 2008 09:06:01 -0500, paulydak <im@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On Thu, 15 May 2008 20:01:37 -0400, Boron Elgar
><boron_elgar@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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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
>>>news:nn4o24ddhrq39dvdgruqi2h8il21ilgnbk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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.
I have a Robot Coupe food processor. Consumer version and it is 25
years old. Still works perfectly. It is built like a tank - much
better than the Cuisinarts were in those days.]
Boron
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