Donald Sauter
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 Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 2:12 am Post subject: Long-word Scrabble highlights: ENERVATED AMOEBAS . . . |
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Here are the highlights from the four (4) Scrabble games played last
night,
Wednesday, August 27 2008, at the Dover Scrabble Club (Delaware).
(Just
Elsie and myself showed up.)
We use the American Heritage dictionary and do not allow phony
words.
Still, we make longer words and score more points than you. Our
finished
boards are works of art.
9-letter:
ENERVATED
8-letter:
BAPTIZES
DETOURED
PARITIES
VOLITION
7-letter:
AIRMAIL
AMOEBAS
ARRIVAL
ATTIRED
BOATING
CHEQUES
CORRALS
FORGIVE
HOOPING
INFERNO
JOUSTER
NEEDIER
QUAVERS
REVOTED
SANDING
SLURRED
TRAMPER
TWIDDLE
UNRATED
WIDENED
YOUNGER
6-letter:
BRAYED
CATTLE
CUDDLY
DRYING
FAIRLY
FARMED
HOPPED
HUNGER
LICHEN
LINGUA
MORBID
MOVING
QUARTZ
RIVERS
SAUNAS
SHERIF
SVELTE
TUNNEL
TWINED
WHEEZY
5-letter:
ICILY
JEWEL
LOANS
MINTY
MUMPS
PALSY
QUARK
SHIED
SHOOT
SKATE
SPURT
WEDGE
WRENS
WRIST
Selected 4-letter words:
ARIA
BARN
COPY
EDGE
HAJJ
HULA
IDEA
JOWL
SOUR
THEM
TOOT
ZARF
Just these 3-letter words:
BAR BED BIO BIZ FEZ LAX NOT ORA RAJ REV ROE SPY TOE VAT
Just these 2-letter words:
AB AI AN AR AS AT AY BE BI BY DO EH EL EN FA HA HO ID IF IS IT
LO ME NO PA RE TI UH UT WE XI
Of the 133 different words on the finished boards, 57 were played
for the first time in the club. We scored 32.3 points per turn as
a club.
Highlights:
Elsie making the highest scoring single-word play (no double- or
triple-
word score) I've ever seen: WHEEZY for 52 points. Many years ago I
landed QUICK across two triple-letter scores for 50 points.
In the 4th game I dropped 9 bombs in my first 9 plays: NEEDIER,
PARITIES,
ENERVATED, ARRIVAL, AIRMAIL, BRAYED, YOUNGER, UNRATED, and REVOTED.
(My
10th and last play was HULA.)
Dimlight:
Me spelling SHERIF because I don't know how to spell SHERIFF, but
getting
credit for it because it turns out a SHERIF is a descendant of
Muhammad.
Scrabble players with any experience and the slightest perception
looking at the above lists should cry out, "That's impossible!
Mere mortals can't possibly do such a thing!" Here's how:
http://www.geocities.com/donaldsauter/scrabble.htm
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