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casa azahar 
High scoring too.
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Nice scoring. Buff and I used to play (after approximately 5,000 games she led me by four wins). You can play a lot of scrabble in forty years. After a while, we found that the end of a game was a bit of a pain with small words and few letters. So we began playing to 500. Once there were no letters left to draw up to the seven needed, the board was demolished and all continued as normal. First to 500 won. (equal moves of course.)
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That’s a novel approach, Archie.
That was my first draw/tie ever, and I think the first for Dan too.
Nog & I have often been one or two points apart at the end, which makes for the best games. Also makes for lots of, ahem, language. Why just yesterday he called me a rotter! 🙂
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Nothing worse than watching someone notch up 70 odd points in a turn, while you’re stuck with ‘Old MacDonald’ (E-I-E-I-O)
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Heh-heh-heh… 😛
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It was an amazing game – az wouldn’t boast (? 😉 ) but she got something like 120 points for “blackest” which beats any word I’ve ever managed.
I think playing online inflates the scores though because you can try out words before you put them down, so you end up playing words you’d never risk in a challenge game (like JAI). When playing “live” I think my average score is more in the 300-350 area than the 350-400 area that az and I seem to be averaging in these games.
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‘Twas a mere 113 points that one, but yeah, a personal best (so far!). Thank you for boasting on my part, Dan! 🙂
Also, when Nog & I play at home we swap blank tiles played if we have the letter it represents (to keep the blank tiles active).
And when someone finishes first, we subtract the amount of the tiles left over from the score of the one still holding tiles and add it to the score of the person who finished first. So there is even more reason not to get stuck with a Q or Z!
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I lOVE scrabble. My personal best was when I got to play “eloquent” across the top left corner, getting the q on the double letter score and two triple word scores plus the 50 points: 284 total for the one word. The l was already there; the o was a blank so I didn’t get quite as many points as I could have. You can imagine the eloquent language my sister used on that occasion, especially since she was deeply embroiled in “Old MacDonald” at the time. I figure the odds of getting to do that again in my life are astronimcally against me.
I like the variant of swapping the blanks for the letter. It completely changes the nature of the game. Another variation we like to play here is that you can swap a tile in your hand for one on the board as long as the exchange still makes a word. This makes playing the q and the z more than once possible, as you can change words like quit or quite to suit or suite, or zip can become dip etc.
The subtraction/adding tiles to the score is part of the official rules of Scrabble.
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Holy fuckamoly – 284 points for one word???
Well done!
And yeah, it just happens sometimes. Like with ‘blackest’ – the letters were just there all at once; I’d have been really stupid not to see them.
“The subtraction/adding tiles to the score is part of the official rules of Scrabble.”
Really? I thought that was just something Nog made up.
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For the record . . .
scrabble on fotki
(think I might be missing some)
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Hmmm . . .
I am rubbish at Scrabble – but playing it online has taught me how to be really good at cheating
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