On Fri, 16 May 2008 11:20:57 -0400, Boron Elgar
<boron_elgar@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>On 16 May 2008 09:06:01 -0500, paulydak <im@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>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]
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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.]
>
>
Yeah, this thing had its own cart, up off of which it was never
picked.
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