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Ugh, the friend who got me into wwf, and has admitted to on occasion looking up words, has suddenly busted out a couple words in endgame that I know she looked up. Until that point I was winning. Very irritating. Kinda want to not play her anymore but she *is* a friend.

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08-07-2011 , 04:48 PM

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Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 19,512

jfc I have a rack that kind of looks like a roman numeral

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08-07-2011 , 04:50 PM

#153

Yeti

Abominable

Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 23,208

i really need to stop playing words when drunk, i always wake up to see i dropped a huge 6 pointer that opened up the board.

also, what are people's thoughts on resignation? i never do it (and no one else seems to) but near the end of a game that is obviously won it seems ******ed to keep passing it back and forth playing a tile at the time. such a waste of time.

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08-07-2011 , 04:55 PM

#154

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Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 19,512

Personally, I think it's useful to keep plugging away for a while, just to recognize useful arrangements, but I don't have a problem with resigning if there's few tiles left, and it's out of reach.

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08-07-2011 , 06:15 PM

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triplej2688

old hand

Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 1,778

I hate when variance kicks in and when someone similarly skilled as you are and gets the perfect letters at the perfect time and you get all vowels twice after swapping 4 tiles. sigh

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08-07-2011 , 08:16 PM

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bottomset

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 26,270

stupid app has glitch deleted games on me, at least in both it was >80% in someone's favor and not a nailbiter

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08-07-2011 , 09:37 PM

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Noah.

banned

Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 20,057

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Originally Posted by Yeti

Fly dropped like a 100 and a 65 on me back to back (while I did like a 15 and 18) and the whole rest of the game was just bleeding me dry like a stuck pig. I guess I could have offered to him to resign, but I think he enjoyed continuing the drubbing.

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08-07-2011 , 09:41 PM

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Omar Comin

fantasy failure

Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 27,348

**** you bitch I didn't cheat

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08-07-2011 , 09:44 PM

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Noah.

banned

Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 20,057

It's always extra embarrassing when you go to drop down words and more than one of your attempted words is deemed to not be a real world.

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08-07-2011 , 10:11 PM

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JL514

because i can

Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 9,820

i played 'flump' today and im pretty sure she thinks im cheating

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08-07-2011 , 10:19 PM

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IcyHotMonkey

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Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 2,771

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Originally Posted by Noah.

It's always extra embarrassing when you go to drop down words and more than one of your attempted words is deemed to not be a real world.

Huh? I do this all day long... I constantly try odd combos to see what will work.

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08-07-2011 , 10:23 PM

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Omar Comin

fantasy failure

Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 27,348

I usually start with a word I know, then just start messing around with it.

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08-07-2011 , 10:43 PM

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divides_by_zero

results-oriented person

Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 6,487

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Originally Posted by Omar Comin

**** you bitch I didn't cheat

Did you get me into wwf? Are you female?

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08-07-2011 , 11:39 PM

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Omar Comin

fantasy failure

Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 27,348

What?

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08-08-2011 , 12:42 AM

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AlligatorBloodFTW

banned

Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 6,425

I almost never swap tiles. What are everyone's thoughts and what are your strats when you do. I think I've done it like 2-3 times ever and I play a lot. One time it was because I had 5 O's

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08-08-2011 , 12:46 AM

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AlligatorBloodFTW

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Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 6,425

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Originally Posted by divides_by_zero

The only words I've ever looked up are 2 letter words. I found a website with a list of all of them. It basically didn't help my score jsut saved me some time so I didnt have to keep trying them to see what were words. Now a recent update tells you exactly which words aren't words whenever you try something and fail. That is very helpful imo.

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08-08-2011 , 12:48 AM

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Noah.

banned

Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 20,057

I had no idea about tons of two letters words but as I play people that are more scrabble-savvy I'm learning a lot of them. I still feel like a bit of a schmuck doing either that or just playing things I assume are words because they fit the right vowel/consonant combo/order.

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08-08-2011 , 02:10 AM

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RitaNg123

grinder

Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 513

I'd like to play a few people! RitaNg123 if anyone wants to play.

A game usually takes me 1-2 days to finish.

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08-08-2011 , 02:21 AM

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AlligatorBloodFTW

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Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 6,425

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Originally Posted by Noah.

Yea I kind of feel dirty too when I play a word that I have never heard of but just tried because it sounded like it could be a word. I feel like this is basically cheating. I think they should limit the amount of times you can play something and it not be a word. And then after like 10 times you start losing points or something. That will keep people from just trying random letter combinations indiscriminantly all the time and getting words out of them they have never heard of. I believe doing that takes away from the spirit of the game.

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08-08-2011 , 02:31 AM

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Michaelson

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 4,375

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Originally Posted by AlligatorBloodFTW

I almost never swap tiles. What are everyone's thoughts and what are your strats when you do. I think I've done it like 2-3 times ever and I play a lot. One time it was because I had 5 O's

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Originally Posted by Yeti

if you have a horrid rack and the only move you can do would be to get rid of 2 or 3 of them for a handful of points, it would be bad to not swap.

similarly if you have a horrid rack and there's only a few tiles left in the bag.

or what michaelson said.

so basically tons of situations!

^this. Or sometimes just because it's better to be one tempo behind because the board is likely to open up favorably for you.

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08-08-2011 , 09:47 AM

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Mog

centurion

Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 136

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Originally Posted by 34TheTruth34

i have a particular friend who does this to me. he was playing 4 letter words like KITE one day and then all of a sudden out of nowhere he developed the uncanny ability to play the longest word on his rack every single turn. he sucks at strategy so i still beat him most of the time, but its really frustrating to lose to someone who does that ****, especially when they blow open a close game with some bizarre bingo that even the best scrabble players probably dont know.

Yeah, that always amuses me. There's been several occasions where I've played/rematched a random person 3-4 times always winning by 100+, and suddenly they start popping out bizarre words. As you said, they generally have no idea of strategy, so they still lose.

On the other hand, something I like is playing someone who can come up with words as well as I can but doesn't have a sense of strategy. Over the course of a few games they actually pick up on strategy from seeing what I do, and it makes for some competitive/enjoyable games. That's happened to me several times as well.

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08-08-2011 , 03:47 PM

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keepitreal

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after a year of playing this game, i finally bought the full version under the assumption my 20ish game restriction would be lifted. it was not. i am heartbroken. especially cuz this girl i played was sure of it. she's dead to me.