We have been playing Scrabble for a while now and I was winning every game with relative ease. She offered to play a game of scrabble with a side-bet, b/c I was talking a lot of smack, and our wager was sizable to say the least. Anyways we start playing and all of the sudden she turns into Webster's pulling out all kinds of SAT words, using the 'q' without a 'u', crazy ass two letter words, etc.

The gem of it all was when she put down "pointers" taking up two triple word scores (so 9 times the score) and using all her tiles (extra 50 pt bonus). WTF??????????!!!??

I think she has been hustling me for about a year now, playing the putz, all for this one moment where she could cash in big. On top of it all she has been using puns like "babe, you need some 'pointers' on how to do the dishes?".

Its been brutal.

I'm curious to know what else I've duped about since our wedding...

Your wife is really a man. Only a man could be smart enough to gain that many points in scrabble.

SCRABBWND!!!1!

buy the scrabble program and play it at work b/c you are the new wife

you got pwn3d

I'm interested to know what the wager was...

Thanks Holden that was good for a laugh.

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I'm curious to know what else I've duped about since our wedding...

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How big's her cock?

One of my kids put down "puke". The other stole it by adding and "R", making "puker". My wife tried to call him on it, saying that wasn't a word.

Two days later, on CSI: Miami, one of the cops used the term "puker".

i love lamp

Here's a word to try next time - mucho points

KWYJEBO

courtesy Bart Simpson

Trivia: If you converted every major league player's name to an equivalent Scrabble score, whose would be the highest in history????














Answer: Javier Vazquez, current pitcher.

EDIT: Speaking of getting owned by the wife...mine just saw what I wrote and made me delete it!!!

[This message has been edited by Old Jock 1997 (edited 2/1/2007 9:14a).]

I think you scored that word wrong.

You get 7 tiles. "pointers" has 8 letters.

The only way to cover two triple word score boxes is to use 8 letters. That means she either tied onto a "p" at the beginning or "s" at the end of an existing word. No problem there, the problem is in the scoring.

Once you use a double or triple score box it's over. You can't use it again. As in, if she used the "P" from another word that was on a triple score box the person who first used that "p" gets the triple, the second does not.

So not only did she scam you on the bet, she screwed you on the scoring as well.

here is a layout of the board.
http://www.ydli.org/dakinfo/carscrab.htm

You need to go recheck that scoring and make sure she won.

Official rules:

If a word is formed that covers two premium word squares, the score is doubled and then re-doubled (4 times the letter count), or tripled and then re-tripled (9 times the letter count). NOTE: the center square is a pink square, which doubles the score for the first word.


Letter and word premiums count only on the turn in which they are played. On later turns, letters already played on premium squares count at face value.

agracer - I'm guessing that she connected with one of the letters in the middle of the word and placed a new letter on each of the triple word squares. As a Scrabble fan myself, that's a once in a lifetime play. Everything has to fall into place just right.

EDIT; Permian.

I looked again and your right. If the 1st and last letter of "pointers" were played on the triple it would be a 9x score. That's a nice play.

Sorry Holden, tried to help you out.

[This message has been edited by agracer (edited 2/1/2007 1:38p).]

One of my favorite Family Ties was when the dad was sick and the kids had to entertain him by playing Scrabble. He would make up words and then require the kids to use them in a sentence.

TechAggie and Permian are correct.

I put down "race" in a hurry (we are very official with the game...using the hourglass and the Official Scrabble dictionary) right before my time ran out and the "e" ended up to the far right wedged between the two triple word scores.

She didn't hesitate putting down "pointers" with the "p" on one triple word score and the "s" on the other using my e.

I knew I made a mistake when I put down race where I did but I can usually overcome my mistakes with relative ease.

But a 140 pt word will immediately end a game.

As far as the rules go, I checked and double checked our own edition of the rules as well as the online version and you do indeed multiply by 9 if two TWS's are used in one term.

I almost needed a ****ing calculator...

My wife and I play this game a couple times per month. Despite the fact that she will run circles around me in almost any grammar situation, I beat her on a regular basis. It pisser her off to no end.

But 140 points is usually close to a total score for a game, not one play.