Vampire.
Jukebox.
Qualify.
Zygosis.
Knights.
Weapons.
Xeroxes.
VERY FEW THINGS ARE AS FABULOUS AND AS SATISFYING AS DE-RACKING ON A TRIPLE WORD SCORE.
You Scrabble heads know what I’m talking about.
Last night, my friend and I had one of our best boards yet. It was magical. Every pull was perfection, words branched out in each direction, covered the board equally and intersected with ease … making for mad points.
Scrabble is the only game in my house that doesn’t require an outlet and gets some serious play.
It’s one of the only games I’ve been playing for decades and haven’t gotten the slightest bit bored with. I play quite a bit, sometimes it’s a casual game over drinks and Family Guy reruns, other times it’s a balls-to-the-wall competition with teams and cash. It’s always fun, and SO gratifying when the (Scrabble) stars aline.
I think the game is so addictive because victory is just as attainable as it is impossible. You can have the most expansive vocabulary catalogued alphabetically in your brain, but if you get a bad pull — you lose. Or, let’s say, your opponent throws down POSE, you intersect it with OZONE and then pull T, X, J, U, A — beautiful!
Well … it’s beautiful … until your opponent spells off of POSE and then POOF, your JUXTAPOSED dreams go up in flames.
It’s all about luck and timing.
Last night, my friend and I had both. And it was more than beautiful. Both of us scored into the 500s, can’t remember exact numbers — there was some wine … 
I’m in the best mood ever today, because we rocked Scrabble so hard … is that ridiculous?
We left the board filled out, in all of its glory, on the table … we didn’t have the heart to break up all of the grand words and poetic intersections.
NERD ALERT: I’m considering a stop on the way home tonight to pick up some super glue so that I can permanently stick the tiles down and hang the board on my wall.
I haven’t played scrabble with a real person for quite a few years! i have been playing it online. haha…when i get a chance…which lately is not much. I do miss the shaking of the tile bag and the taunting that my mom and sister would do when they got a triple word score…and ruined my chances of winning at leat 200pts ahead. Those were the days. R is teaching me to play texas hold em so maybe i will return the favor and make him play one of my word games…oooooo or Pente! I LOVE that game!
Hello!
I’m a word fanatic, but I never seriously played scrabble. Are most scrabble players word nuts too? Are they constantly trying to increase their vocab?
The reason I ask is because this week, I am launching a 7 day series of entries entitled “How to Easily Master 100 New Vocabulary Words Per Week! (Your 7 Day Plan)” and I’m wondering if scrabble players would benefit from it.
I would love for you to stop by and tell me what you think about it because I really think it can help a lot of people
Thanks and keep in touch
PS Maybe I should start playing scrabble
You can play Scrabble online with people all over the world and even win prizes! Days of board games are totally over. Time to move on now. everything’s computerized nowadays. and ltbrwnsugar who says that when you play online you are not playing it with a real person? that simply didn’t make sense.
Anyways Internuts for the win no matter however you see it!
Kabir…i said that becuase the one i play i play alone…not with other people…so i play the computer program.