to everyone i am currently playing. I am having PRK surgery tomorrow to correct my vision so i may not be able to play based on how my handle my phones brightness. I'll try to keep the games going though!
Heh, it'll probably be a few days if it's anything like mine. I was out for 3 days with nothing, then a good week of heavy blur after that. PRK is rough, but worth it. Best of luck!
Navy gave me 8 days off and I put foil on my bedroom windows to keep out the UV light. Everyone tells me that UV is the worst and artificial is not so bad. I'm hoping to be ok by tomorrow at the worst to play. eeep... 2.5 hours till lasers!!!
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Navy gave me 8 days off and I put foil on my bedroom windows to keep out the UV light. Everyone tells me that UV is the worst and artificial is not so bad. I'm hoping to be ok by tomorrow at the worst to play. eeep... 2.5 hours till lasers!!!
think of the smell of the lasers burning your eyes as the smell of change
thats roughly what they told my wife before her lasik.
Goddamn, CoJoeTheLawyer is a scrabble machine, busting out massive scoring points.
I feel like a child putting down the only 3 letter words he knows in comparison.
My Scrabble-Fu is mighty indeed.
Honestly it comes from the fact that I play mostly with my throat-slitting, cold-blooded Scrabble queen of a wife. She's the mistress of the vowelless word and shows no mercy. Its almost automatic for me to now look for every high point play.
I've gotten to the point where I am just playing for certain letters even if it comes at the expense of general strategy. It started when I was getting whooped by someone but managed to play SCOLD down the right side with the S starting on the TW. I noticed I could reach the other TW with 3 letters, and I had an ER so I figured I'd try for SCOLDERS. Then I picked up an I and N so I thought of SCOLDING. Looking over the board (and looking up the letter counts) I saw that all the S's had been played but no G's were down so I started saving the IN. I also noticed there was WEED in a similar position (3 letters above tw) and I picked up another IN, so so now I was basically playing with only 3 letters (saving IINN) and hoping for a G to pop in the last 15 or so letters. And it worked, I was able to play SCOLDING and WEEDING both for 40+ and win the game.
Now I have one game where I played EXCITED down the right, I have and L and I'm trying to play as many of the other 6 each time in search of a Y. I even left the vertical column with DW and TW in the lower left exposed with my last word because it gave me two more tiles than a safer play. In my other game I have YIELD in a similar position with IG in the tray hoping for an N.
Unfortunately the I is my only vowel along with the Z and some F's and B's, so it might be rough.
As I typed this out the guy in my EXCITED game resigned, dammit! I was only up 100, he could have made up at least half that with the DW and TW spots.
anyone experiencing weird lag lately? right now I've got two games going with one person and I got a phantom invite from a friend who had auto resigned a couple hours before. when I talked to her today she said that she hadn't sent me any invite after our last game timed out.
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Wanted: new challengers to appear.
I'm at 25-30 games played with no losses so far and getting to be much too full of myself. I need someone to take me down a notch.
On a different note, played THROATED across a double and triple earlier today for 106 points. Can't stop laughing now every time I flip to that game and ponder the definition on that one.
I'm at 25-30 games played with no losses so far and getting to be much too full of myself. I need someone to take me down a notch.
On a different note, played THROATED across a double and triple earlier today for 106 points. Can't stop laughing now every time I flip to that game and ponder the definition on that one.
as in deep-throated?
also if you want a challenge play jaef he's really keeping me on my toes
I'm at 25-30 games played with no losses so far and getting to be much too full of myself. I need someone to take me down a notch.
On a different note, played THROATED across a double and triple earlier today for 106 points. Can't stop laughing now every time I flip to that game and ponder the definition on that one.
as in deep-throated?
also if you want a challenge play jaef he's really keeping me on my toes
That's exactly what makes me giggle like a little kid when I look at that on the board.
I should challenge Jaef to another game. His post about pornographic vowels came right in the middle of our game, and I'm pretty sure I did indeed get better letters than he did that game.
Sure is a lot of rhodomontade in this thread all of a sudden.
To be fair though, Jaef and Ketar did clean my clock in matches, but I'm my own worst enemy. I always have to play the most juvenile play, but when you draw OOBBEIS at the start of a game, what can you do
Sure is a lot of rhodomontade in this thread all of a sudden.
To be fair though, Jaef and Ketar did clean my clock in matches, but I'm my own worst enemy. I always have to play the most juvenile play, but when you draw OOBBEIS at the start of a game, what can you do
Navy gave me 8 days off and I put foil on my bedroom windows to keep out the UV light. Everyone tells me that UV is the worst and artificial is not so bad. I'm hoping to be ok by tomorrow at the worst to play. eeep... 2.5 hours till lasers!!!
think of the smell of the lasers burning your eyes as the smell of change
thats roughly what they told my wife before her lasik.
got my contacts taken out today. vision is in massive flux again. PRK rules and sucks at the same time.
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Beating people who blatantly use anagrammers remains the best thing. The. Best. Thing.
WRATHIER for your first word of the game? As in "I'm pretty wrathy, but man, she is even wrathier?" Sure. Fine. Whatever. I'll use one of those Rs to play OVERTURE. And...you will play ZEBEC for 56 points.
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wtf does ZEBEC mean? Oh, an alternate spelling for xebec. Of course. And that would be...a Mediterranean sailing vessel. Silly me.
Oh wait, what's this? As the board tightens up you can't find openings for the better words your software is providing? That's a shame. Really.
VANG? A rope on a ship, it would seem. Ahh, perhaps I have made an ass of myself with my assumptions of cheating. Maybe I'm just playing against a Mediterranean sailor working through her anger management issues. Either way, you have the Q and I do not, and I will ensure that you cannot possibly play it on this extremely closed board. C'est la vie.
I hate when people do that shit, its so obvious too. Raj, quay (ok that was me, I thought it looked like it might be a word...and it was!), and other words I can't even remember because they probably weren't english. Maybe they are just trying to improve my vocabulary, too bad I don't look most of these words up.
I hate when people do that shit, its so obvious too. Raj, quay (ok that was me, I thought it looked like it might be a word...and it was!), and other words I can't even remember because they probably weren't english. Maybe they are just trying to improve my vocabulary, too bad I don't look most of these words up.
Anyways I am Sylem if anyone wants to play.
You can't always assume someone is using a word generator when they start laying down odd words though. I'm a biology major. I lay words like axion or neural all the time, especially if I'm playing during a study break. I also read way too many fantasy novels so to me quay (dock or harbor) is a perfectly normal word. Cojoethelawyer used so legal terms against me, and I bet you could throw military speak pretty well and I would think it's gibberish.
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I am trying to remember the word that really upset me....it was a really long v word that was followed by two more words I didn't know. Oh and most of my military jargon doesn't work although lox did work and it means something totally different than liquid oxygen.
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I hate when people do that shit, its so obvious too. Raj, quay (ok that was me, I thought it looked like it might be a word...and it was!), and other words I can't even remember because they probably weren't english. Maybe they are just trying to improve my vocabulary, too bad I don't look most of these words up.
Anyways I am Sylem if anyone wants to play.
You can't always assume someone is using a word generator when they start laying down odd words though. I'm a biology major. I lay words like axion or neural all the time, especially if I'm playing during a study break. I also read way too many fantasy novels so to me quay (dock or harbor) is a perfectly normal word. Cojoethelawyer used so legal terms against me, and I bet you could throw military speak pretty well and I would think it's gibberish.
I wouldn't think anything strange of neural. And I think we actually played a game, as the name is familiar and someone definitely played AXION in a game with me a week or two ago.
I've got around 100 games in now in Wordfeud, and the number of people I believe used anagrammers is at most 10%. Plenty of people can whip out an unusual word here and there. It's the players that do so consistently from turn to turn, combined with no recognition of how to maximize the points from these words or how to play them in a way that doesn't set me up for huge points thanks to tile bonuses made accessible, that are obviously relying on software to make their words for them.
I am trying to remember the word that really upset me....it was a really long v word that was followed by two more words I didn't know. Oh and most of my military jargon doesn't work although lox did work and it means something totally different than liquid oxygen.
Heh, if you go to the Scrabble website and put lox into their dictionary the definition you get is: "to supply with lox (liquid oxygen)."
Which was unexpected, really. I always assumed it was lox as in bagels and lox.
edit: Yeah, mts, not so much... Though that's what I thought too.
At what point does it turn into cheating when trying to think of a word? Is asking friends cheating, or just waiting and looking around the internet until you see something that might work? Or opening up moby dick and throwing down some 19th century whaling terms?
lox is smoked salmon. military speak doesn't work since it is abbreviations which are not cool
Some abbreviations work, at least they did with the old dictionary. Cojoethelawyer played BAC (blood alcohol content) off of my ARF (acute renal failure). Unless those are somehow actual words. It was interesting that the two together made barf.
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At what point does it turn into cheating when trying to think of a word? Is asking friends cheating, or just waiting and looking around the internet until you see something that might work? Or opening up moby dick and throwing down some 19th century whaling terms?
Eh, the only thing that bothers me is folks laying down word after word that really couldn't have come from anywhere but anagramming software.
Truth is though, I grew up on Scrabble at a table in my grandmother's house, so for me ideally you'd be making a word in 60-90 seconds with no outside help whatsoever. I fully recognize how unrealistic that is for something like Wordfeud though, and have no real expectations that anyone would be doing that. That said, I've been keeping myself at the max of 30 simultaneous games lately, and that's exactly how I play - 30-60s per word from the time I see it's my turn, with no outside help whatsoever. Well, aside from my wife who gets angry if I don't let her look over my shoulder from time to time
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lox is smoked salmon. military speak doesn't work since it is abbreviations which are not cool
Some abbreviations work, at least they did with the old dictionary. Cojoethelawyer played BAC (blood alcohol content) off of my ARF (acute renal failure). Unless those are somehow actual words. It was interesting that the two together made barf.
ARF is a barking sound, not acute renal failure.
BAC is not an eligible word using TWL or in the North American Scrabble Dictionary. Not sure what definition was used for it in SOWPODS.
At what point does it turn into cheating when trying to think of a word? Is asking friends cheating, or just waiting and looking around the internet until you see something that might work? Or opening up moby dick and throwing down some 19th century whaling terms?
I like to hit the random button when I'm stuck, sometimes it shakes loose a good word. I'll also lay a word where I want it for points and hope the random 2 letter by products go through.
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At what point does it turn into cheating when trying to think of a word? Is asking friends cheating, or just waiting and looking around the internet until you see something that might work? Or opening up moby dick and throwing down some 19th century whaling terms?
Eh, the only thing that bothers me is folks laying down word after word that really couldn't have come from anywhere but anagramming software.
Truth is though, I grew up on Scrabble at a table in my grandmother's house, so for me ideally you'd be making a word in 60-90 seconds with no outside help whatsoever. I fully recognize how unrealistic that is for something like Wordfeud though, and have no real expectations that anyone would be doing that. That said, I've been keeping myself at the max of 30 simultaneous games lately, and that's exactly how I play - 30-60s per word from the time I see it's my turn, with no outside help whatsoever. Well, aside from my wife who gets angry if I don't let her look over my shoulder from time to time
There's no way I could play with that speed. Sometimes my games take a full week. Even when playing physical scrabble it takes a while to think of a good word + placement. Sometimes I have a word ready to go for my next turn with a back-up in case of cock block, sometimes I spend a half hour figuring out what to do with my 7 vowels.
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At what point does it turn into cheating when trying to think of a word? Is asking friends cheating, or just waiting and looking around the internet until you see something that might work? Or opening up moby dick and throwing down some 19th century whaling terms?
Eh, the only thing that bothers me is folks laying down word after word that really couldn't have come from anywhere but anagramming software.
Truth is though, I grew up on Scrabble at a table in my grandmother's house, so for me ideally you'd be making a word in 60-90 seconds with no outside help whatsoever. I fully recognize how unrealistic that is for something like Wordfeud though, and have no real expectations that anyone would be doing that. That said, I've been keeping myself at the max of 30 simultaneous games lately, and that's exactly how I play - 30-60s per word from the time I see it's my turn, with no outside help whatsoever. Well, aside from my wife who gets angry if I don't let her look over my shoulder from time to time
There's no way I could play with that speed. Sometimes my games take a full week. Even when playing physical scrabble it takes a while to think of a good word + placement. Sometimes I have a word ready to go for my next turn with a back-up in case of cock block, sometimes I spend a half hour figuring out what to do with my 7 vowels.
I played 1-2 games of Scrabble with my parents and great-uncle every Sunday night for 12 or so years when I was growing up. The first few years they gave me extra time to come up with something, or would occasionally let me look at the Scrabble Dictionary. Then I was on the timer with no help like everyone else. You get used to it. Eventually. Heh.
At what point does it turn into cheating when trying to think of a word? Is asking friends cheating, or just waiting and looking around the internet until you see something that might work? Or opening up moby dick and throwing down some 19th century whaling terms?
Eh, the only thing that bothers me is folks laying down word after word that really couldn't have come from anywhere but anagramming software.
Truth is though, I grew up on Scrabble at a table in my grandmother's house, so for me ideally you'd be making a word in 60-90 seconds with no outside help whatsoever. I fully recognize how unrealistic that is for something like Wordfeud though, and have no real expectations that anyone would be doing that. That said, I've been keeping myself at the max of 30 simultaneous games lately, and that's exactly how I play - 30-60s per word from the time I see it's my turn, with no outside help whatsoever. Well, aside from my wife who gets angry if I don't let her look over my shoulder from time to time
There's no way I could play with that speed. Sometimes my games take a full week. Even when playing physical scrabble it takes a while to think of a good word + placement. Sometimes I have a word ready to go for my next turn with a back-up in case of cock block, sometimes I spend a half hour figuring out what to do with my 7 vowels.
I played 1-2 games of Scrabble with my parents and great-uncle every Sunday night for 12 or so years when I was growing up. The first few years they gave me extra time to come up with something, or would occasionally let me look at the Scrabble Dictionary. Then I was on the timer with no help like everyone else. You get used to it. Eventually. Heh.
With my family it was euchre. Lots of euchre.
I wouldn't ever play with tournament rules for anything I enjoyed, it would kill it for me. It's what happened with WoW endgame and why I won't cook professionally. I know that the pressure enhances it for others though, I just don't understand it myself.
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At what point does it turn into cheating when trying to think of a word? Is asking friends cheating, or just waiting and looking around the internet until you see something that might work? Or opening up moby dick and throwing down some 19th century whaling terms?
Eh, the only thing that bothers me is folks laying down word after word that really couldn't have come from anywhere but anagramming software.
Truth is though, I grew up on Scrabble at a table in my grandmother's house, so for me ideally you'd be making a word in 60-90 seconds with no outside help whatsoever. I fully recognize how unrealistic that is for something like Wordfeud though, and have no real expectations that anyone would be doing that. That said, I've been keeping myself at the max of 30 simultaneous games lately, and that's exactly how I play - 30-60s per word from the time I see it's my turn, with no outside help whatsoever. Well, aside from my wife who gets angry if I don't let her look over my shoulder from time to time
There's no way I could play with that speed. Sometimes my games take a full week. Even when playing physical scrabble it takes a while to think of a good word + placement. Sometimes I have a word ready to go for my next turn with a back-up in case of cock block, sometimes I spend a half hour figuring out what to do with my 7 vowels.
I played 1-2 games of Scrabble with my parents and great-uncle every Sunday night for 12 or so years when I was growing up. The first few years they gave me extra time to come up with something, or would occasionally let me look at the Scrabble Dictionary. Then I was on the timer with no help like everyone else. You get used to it. Eventually. Heh.
With my family it was euchre. Lots of euchre.
I wouldn't ever play with tournament rules for anything I enjoyed, it would kill it for me. It's what happened with WoW endgame and why I won't cook professionally. I know that the pressure enhances it for others though, I just don't understand it myself.
For me it's a lot like poker - once I started playing poker in casinos for a while back in college, it became almost impossible to sit around and play for the fun of it or penny ante type stakes. Poker just isn't the same without money on the line. Scrabble (or Wordfeud) just doesn't feel right if I'm not limiting myself to what I know, and a rough time limit. It'd be like playing Civ on Settler
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Nah, they're both in TWL. Otoh, crap like TE and MIZ is out now.
TWL and SOWPODS are tournament-level Scrabble word lists. TWL is used in the U.S. and two other countries I believe. SOWPODS everywhere else.
I grew up on TWL, so I'm happy, heh.
Navy gave me 8 days off and I put foil on my bedroom windows to keep out the UV light. Everyone tells me that UV is the worst and artificial is not so bad. I'm hoping to be ok by tomorrow at the worst to play. eeep... 2.5 hours till lasers!!!
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thats roughly what they told my wife before her lasik.
I feel like a child putting down the only 3 letter words he knows in comparison.
My Scrabble-Fu is mighty indeed.
Honestly it comes from the fact that I play mostly with my throat-slitting, cold-blooded Scrabble queen of a wife. She's the mistress of the vowelless word and shows no mercy. Its almost automatic for me to now look for every high point play.
'Hmm can't fit drank on this board'
'Is outdrank a valid word in English?'
*screen pauses*
You played OUTDRANK for 136 points
Now I have one game where I played EXCITED down the right, I have and L and I'm trying to play as many of the other 6 each time in search of a Y. I even left the vertical column with DW and TW in the lower left exposed with my last word because it gave me two more tiles than a safer play. In my other game I have YIELD in a similar position with IG in the tray hoping for an N.
Unfortunately the I is my only vowel along with the Z and some F's and B's, so it might be rough.
As I typed this out the guy in my EXCITED game resigned, dammit! I was only up 100, he could have made up at least half that with the DW and TW spots.
I'm at 25-30 games played with no losses so far and getting to be much too full of myself. I need someone to take me down a notch.
On a different note, played THROATED across a double and triple earlier today for 106 points. Can't stop laughing now every time I flip to that game and ponder the definition on that one.
as in deep-throated?
also if you want a challenge play jaef he's really keeping me on my toes
That's exactly what makes me giggle like a little kid when I look at that on the board.
I should challenge Jaef to another game. His post about pornographic vowels came right in the middle of our game, and I'm pretty sure I did indeed get better letters than he did that game.
To be fair though, Jaef and Ketar did clean my clock in matches, but I'm my own worst enemy. I always have to play the most juvenile play, but when you draw OOBBEIS at the start of a game, what can you do
BOOBIES
luckily I had an S to correct that problem
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got my contacts taken out today. vision is in massive flux again. PRK rules and sucks at the same time.
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WRATHIER for your first word of the game? As in "I'm pretty wrathy, but man, she is even wrathier?" Sure. Fine. Whatever. I'll use one of those Rs to play OVERTURE. And...you will play ZEBEC for 56 points.
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wtf does ZEBEC mean? Oh, an alternate spelling for xebec. Of course. And that would be...a Mediterranean sailing vessel. Silly me.
Oh wait, what's this? As the board tightens up you can't find openings for the better words your software is providing? That's a shame. Really.
VANG? A rope on a ship, it would seem. Ahh, perhaps I have made an ass of myself with my assumptions of cheating. Maybe I'm just playing against a Mediterranean sailor working through her anger management issues. Either way, you have the Q and I do not, and I will ensure that you cannot possibly play it on this extremely closed board. C'est la vie.
Anyways I am Sylem if anyone wants to play.
You can't always assume someone is using a word generator when they start laying down odd words though. I'm a biology major. I lay words like axion or neural all the time, especially if I'm playing during a study break. I also read way too many fantasy novels so to me quay (dock or harbor) is a perfectly normal word. Cojoethelawyer used so legal terms against me, and I bet you could throw military speak pretty well and I would think it's gibberish.
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I wouldn't think anything strange of neural. And I think we actually played a game, as the name is familiar and someone definitely played AXION in a game with me a week or two ago.
I've got around 100 games in now in Wordfeud, and the number of people I believe used anagrammers is at most 10%. Plenty of people can whip out an unusual word here and there. It's the players that do so consistently from turn to turn, combined with no recognition of how to maximize the points from these words or how to play them in a way that doesn't set me up for huge points thanks to tile bonuses made accessible, that are obviously relying on software to make their words for them.
Heh, if you go to the Scrabble website and put lox into their dictionary the definition you get is: "to supply with lox (liquid oxygen)."
Which was unexpected, really. I always assumed it was lox as in bagels and lox.
edit: Yeah, mts, not so much... Though that's what I thought too.
Some abbreviations work, at least they did with the old dictionary. Cojoethelawyer played BAC (blood alcohol content) off of my ARF (acute renal failure). Unless those are somehow actual words. It was interesting that the two together made barf.
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Eh, the only thing that bothers me is folks laying down word after word that really couldn't have come from anywhere but anagramming software.
Truth is though, I grew up on Scrabble at a table in my grandmother's house, so for me ideally you'd be making a word in 60-90 seconds with no outside help whatsoever. I fully recognize how unrealistic that is for something like Wordfeud though, and have no real expectations that anyone would be doing that. That said, I've been keeping myself at the max of 30 simultaneous games lately, and that's exactly how I play - 30-60s per word from the time I see it's my turn, with no outside help whatsoever. Well, aside from my wife who gets angry if I don't let her look over my shoulder from time to time
ARF is a barking sound, not acute renal failure.
BAC is not an eligible word using TWL or in the North American Scrabble Dictionary. Not sure what definition was used for it in SOWPODS.
I like to hit the random button when I'm stuck, sometimes it shakes loose a good word. I'll also lay a word where I want it for points and hope the random 2 letter by products go through.
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arf is a dog bark
There's no way I could play with that speed. Sometimes my games take a full week. Even when playing physical scrabble it takes a while to think of a good word + placement. Sometimes I have a word ready to go for my next turn with a back-up in case of cock block, sometimes I spend a half hour figuring out what to do with my 7 vowels.
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I played 1-2 games of Scrabble with my parents and great-uncle every Sunday night for 12 or so years when I was growing up. The first few years they gave me extra time to come up with something, or would occasionally let me look at the Scrabble Dictionary. Then I was on the timer with no help like everyone else. You get used to it. Eventually. Heh.
With my family it was euchre. Lots of euchre.
I wouldn't ever play with tournament rules for anything I enjoyed, it would kill it for me. It's what happened with WoW endgame and why I won't cook professionally. I know that the pressure enhances it for others though, I just don't understand it myself.
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For me it's a lot like poker - once I started playing poker in casinos for a while back in college, it became almost impossible to sit around and play for the fun of it or penny ante type stakes. Poker just isn't the same without money on the line. Scrabble (or Wordfeud) just doesn't feel right if I'm not limiting myself to what I know, and a rough time limit. It'd be like playing Civ on Settler