"Official Scrabble " Thread

[mightytiny]

Normal opponent I have been playing...close games...nothing out of the ordinary. Out of the blue his/her last two plays are

1. Bezant using the z off of Adz
2. Halvah off of an ah for a triple word.

Really...have to cheat at scrabble or do ordinary people know these words.

Had to look up Bezant which is a gold coin of Constantinople

Halvah is a middle eastern pastry made of seasame seeds...

Didnt know I was playing a world traveler...

Words were played within minutes of each other following my plays which took 5 minutes

[bigpooch]

Maybe your opponent read through all the six-letter words and has a good memory.

[Five-Star]

Anyone else a USAPA rated player? I've only been playing a year in tournaments and am currently in the 500s. I have a tournament this weekend to play in.
I don't have anyone local club to play with, so I play a little on ISC and Scrabble on my iPod.

Currently Zyzzyva, Quackle and ISC are on my computer.
My iPod has Scrabble, Zarf, Zyzzyva, AdNoto.

[the orange crush]

I play on facebook, with tons of other people. They use the ELO rating system, like chess uses. My highest ranking was 1860 and I am roughly 2300-700 so far. I love playing scrabble while watching netflix. High game is 582. Gives me something to do with poker out of the way.

[airwave16]

Originally Posted by mightytiny

Normal opponent I have been playing...close games...nothing out of the ordinary. Out of the blue his/her last two plays are

1. Bezant using the z off of Adz
2. Halvah off of an ah for a triple word.

Really...have to cheat at scrabble or do ordinary people know these words.

Had to look up Bezant which is a gold coin of Constantinople

Halvah is a middle eastern pastry made of seasame seeds...

Didnt know I was playing a world traveler...

Words were played within minutes of each other following my plays which took 5 minutes

i knew halvah, but i'm also a jew, so...

[EGarrett]

I watched the documentary on Scrabble players, it was really interesting, except that I find it pretty unsatisfying that so many two-letter combinations that are so far away from normal language are acceptable as words.

By the way, is the "words with friends" game that everyone was playing a few months ago the same as Scrabble?

[the orange crush]

Originally Posted by EGarrett

By the way, is the "words with friends" game that everyone was playing a few months ago the same as Scrabble?

No the multipliers are in different spots a spaced differently too. Bingos are worth 35 not 50 points. You play with 104 instead of 100 tiles. So its quite different.