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Originally Posted by Clodfobble
This is funny, because playing the game has actually been reminding me why I never liked the real Scrabble--too much reward for point strategizing, not enough credit for badass words. IMHO there should never be a situation where a word like "hand" gets more points than "ennui."
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I don't have a problem with 'hand' being placed
in the right area of the board being worth more points than 'ennui' --because the game (Scrabble) involves two skillsets: vocabulary and spatial reasoning. I don't have a problem with point strategizing, because that is the measure of your success within the rules of the game. The problem with WWF, however, is that the rules of the game are dumb. The entire concept, of Scrabble, breaks down with no
challenge system in place.
btw, Clodfobble, I've been wanting to play 'ennui' but never had the opportunity where it would have scored well. It's a cool word, but how do you measure coolness? In my mind, the classic measure of Scrabble coolness is where your spatial reasoning can find that spot where your vocabulary fills in that cool word, and 'ennui' hits TW on the e, DL on the u--and your opponent didn't think you could get into that corner.
That would be cool. Memorizing the 101 two-letter word combinations allowed in the Scrabble dictionary...is not cool. Because that isn't a transferable skill, such as, you know, having an actual vocabulary of real words
that you know how to use in a sentence.