atari2600land's Blog - Cheating in Scrabble is fun

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When me and my mom play Scrabble, it's a lot of fun. We do stuff that is not ok in Scrabble rules, like trade letters. I had four Is one turn, so I just dumped out all my letters and got new ones. We haven't played in a while, so we sat down, her on the couch and me on the floor, and played. I let her start because she always loses (first word gets double points, you know). For a while, it looked like it was going to be a low-scoring affair for both of us, but on the last play, I got ETRNAL and a blank. After going through places trying to find a place for words like ETERNAL, LANTERN, etc. I finally gave up and asked my mom if she had an I. So I traded my T for an I and made RELIANCE, which covered up two triple word scores, and got a fifty point bonus for using my letters, and the score on that turn alone was 110. I ended the game with an all-time high score of 355. I let mom use ZEN even though it isn't in the Scrabble dictionary (we both think it should be. It's not...

 

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