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Forum Scrabble Part 19

Posted Oct 28, 2009

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ME
MemberOriginal Poster
Oct 28, 2009
How to play***LAST PAGE***Below is a four letter word.  Copy and paste it into your post (don't quote or the quotes could get ridiculously long). Change/Replace one letter and type it in next to the original word.  The next person to reply will need to copy and paste two words and so on and so on.No repeating of words.  (To check if a word has already been used, hit control F, a "Find" box will appear on your tool bar, type the word in there. (Thanks for that tip LookN!, Your way is fine too, Phil...I just don't remember what it is!) Let's see how many words we come up with by changing one letter at a time.RULES:1. This game is loosely based on the board game SCRABBLE.  We are following the rules for acceptable words as set forth by SCRABBLE.Acceptable words:"All words labeled as a part of speech (including those listed of foreign origin, and as archaic, obsolete, colloquial, slang, etc are permitted". (Note on foreign words - they must be words that have been incorporated into the English language, i.e. Fino (Spanish sherry) is acceptable, Vous (French for you) is NOT acceptable)Unacceptable words:"Words always capitalized (proper nouns), abbreviations, prefixes and suffixes standing alone, words requiring a hyphen or an apostrophe".     2. As much fun as it would be to rearrange letters, that defeats the purpose of the game.  THE CHALLENGE IS IN CHANGING/REPLACING ONE LETTER!!!       3. You can only play ONE word at a time.     4. If a word is challenged, the correction should be made by the person who catches it and play continues from the correction forward.  If words are lost because of that, then shame on all for not catching it sooner.  Before you "change" a word, please make ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN it truly ISN'T acceptable by looking it up in the final source. See next rule.     5.  (as suggested by Desperado). The following is the final source on acceptable words, if you can't find it here, it's NOT acceptable:Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (OSPD)***Please note: in this source the plural tense of a three letter word can often only be found by looking up the singular. ex: LIDS is only listed in source under LID. ***       6. On occasion players post simultaneously creating a double thread.  The game moves on from the FIRST new word to be posted.  Please take a second after posting to look back and make sure this has not happened to you.  If it has then edit and change your word to follow the word that was posted first.  That has been the unspoken "gentlemen's" rule of this game since day one and has helped to keep it a friendly game. 7. PLAY NICE! NO TROLLING, FLAMING OR RUDE REMARKS ABOUT ANY OTHER PLAYER PLEASE!  THIS GAME WAS CREATED AS A PLACE FOR FUN AND TO TAKE A BREAK FROM THE HEATED EXCHANGES THAT SOMETIMES OCCUR ON OTHER THREADS.
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  • AN
    Andrew
    Andrew
    Apr 20, 2010

    I've done a long break in participating in this everlasting game. Amazed to see that it still works. 1 923 words by now.
    Would be easier to handle if our dear master of ceremonies, Jen, made a stop of part 19 and made a restart with Part 20. 27 pages now in part 19, easier to handle less pages.

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  • MA
    Martin
    Martin
    Apr 20, 2010
    might it be easire to start the link again? How about a new word?NARK//contiue
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  • ME
    MemberOriginal Poster
    Apr 21, 2010

    Hi Andy, and welcome back to the game! No need for a part 20...there is a link right on the front page that says "LAST PAGE" highlighted in blue.  If you click on that it takes you to the last page!

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    Andrew
    Andrew
    Apr 21, 2010

    The previous post didn't show at first, page 28 was not available. My adding of "FOSS" was done twice, but instead of leaving two identical posts I edit one of them to this post.

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  • AN
    Andrew
    Andrew
    May 6, 2010

    We've reached 1 975 words by now, including my adding of "ILKA" in the previous post.

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  • AN
    Andrew
    Andrew
    May 18, 2010

    **

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  • DE
    Desperado
    Desperado
    May 25, 2010

    Methinks that we may have hit an impass.

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  • ME
    MemberOriginal Poster
    Jun 7, 2010

    p.s.  We're up to 2016 words and 17 months of play!

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  • ME
    MemberOriginal Poster
    Jun 17, 2010

    For the game to continue, we'll have to go back three words and make a change. Is everyone okay with that? If not, the game is officially over after 17 months and 2036 words...

    Let me know!

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  • ME
    MemberOriginal Poster
    Jun 26, 2010

    *

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  • DE
    Desperado
    Desperado
    Jun 27, 2010

    Has anyone figured out which word used so far has the most Scrabble points?

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  • DE
    Desperado
    Desperado
    Jun 28, 2010

    Each letter has a point value.  Add the four point amounts and rank them.  :)  lots of words  :(
    I MIGHT GIVE IT A SHOT.

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  • ME
    MemberOriginal Poster
    Jun 28, 2010

    Off the top of my head I would guess it would be QUIZ - 22 scrabble points.

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  • DE
    Desperado
    Desperado
    Jun 28, 2010

    Right on.

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  • ME
    MemberOriginal Poster
    Jun 29, 2010

    To check if a word has already been used, hit control F, a "Find" box will appear on your tool bar, type the word in there.

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    Desperado
    Desperado
    Jun 29, 2010

    FYI: another use of "Ctrl F" is to type only three of the four letters.  This way you can find all of the similar words already used (they will be highlighted in sequence), and then see if there are others that could be used.  Try it for FACE by finding "ACE" w/ Ctrl F.  Helps to quickly see what words might work by identifying previous words easily.  If you have the OSPD website open at the same time, the process is even smoother.   :)  :)   :)

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  • DE
    Desperado
    Desperado
    Jul 10, 2010

    I recall that there are 11,400 +/-  four-letter words in the OSPD.  Has anyone verified this?

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