Donald Sauter
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 Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 6:34 am Post subject: Vocabulary-based Scrabble highlights: REKINDLED FLATTERERS.. |
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Here are the highlights from the seven (7) Scrabble games played last
night,
Wednesday, November 12, 2008, at the Dover Scrabble Club (Delaware).
We use
the American Heritage dictionary and do not allow phony words.
Still,
we make longer words and score more points than you. Don't believe
me?
Take a look at how this incredible claim stands up relative to the top
games
played in the recent 2008 National Scrabble Championship:
http://www.geocities.com/donaldsauter/national-scrabble-championship.htm
Last night's games:
10-letter:
FLATTERERS
9-letter:
REKINDLED
8-letter:
ANODIZED
ANTIQUES
MOISTENS
OPENINGS
OUTDATES
7-letter:
ADORING
AVOIDED
ENTREAT
GROOVED
GROUSER
HUNTING
JARGONS
LANKIER
PERSIST
REQUEST
ROOKING
SATIATE
SOOTIER
SWEETEN
TALONED
TROTTED
6-letter (rarely seen on a tournament Scrabble board):
BREEDS
BROOKS
BULLET
CASTER
COOKED
COUPLE
COUSIN
DIGHTS
FLUNKY
GAINED
GRANTS
HEALED
LOOTER
MIXERS
NEATEN
QUARRY
QUARTS
RAVENS
REIGNS
RELIED
SENATE
TRENCH
UNEVEN
VIZIER
VOICED
WICKED
5-letter:
AMBER
BOOTY
BOOZY
COURT
CREED
CZARS
FAXED
FENCE
FLOOR
FRAIL
GAINS
GENIE
GLASS
GLUED
GOODY
GREED
HOIST
HOURI
LAMBS
LIVEN
MAIZE
MAVEN
MOXIE
NUTTY
OAKEN
ORGAN
PANIC
PLAID
PLUMB
QUIET
RAINS
RAISE
SHOAT
SWORD
TABOO
TAXED
THINE
THUMB
TOWED
TWINS
WADIS
WANTS
ZONED
ZOOMS
Selected 4-letter words:
CLOT
COMA
COOP
CRUX
EGGY
KNOB
OILY
ONTO
TOMB
We averaged 24.1 points per turn as a club - a bit off the pace. In
one
game I forwent playing a bingo, CATTIEST, even though it would have
put
me up by about 60 points with one round to go. That would have left
me
with a bare Z in my rack which I would surely have eaten (the Z). So
instead of a 70+ point bingo I played ZIT=30 and went out to win on
my
next turn with CASTER=9. I don't recall ever intentionally forgoing
a bingo.
You, too, can set your Scrabble board ablaze with REAL WORDS,
found in a REAL DICTIONARY, and used by REAL PEOPLE:
http://www.geocities.com/donaldsauter/scrabble.htm
Donald Sauter |
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