Weird Scrabble Words

I play scrabble on FB and some of the words that pop up on my tray are sorta funny. :)

A subliminal message, Nirvana?:D

Here's a geek version of the game.

Proper nouns! Where's the Rulebook? LOL!

I thought you were going to be listing those words that involve X or Q without a U.

I once blundered across a Scrabble championship on some cable channel. The tension was palpable. The players were down to letters like X, Q, and Z and they were STILL PLAYING. Also, the two guys didn't look like stereotypical word-geeks. They looked like redneck truckers.

It was a bit strange for me.

I have a large vocabulary, but seem to attract unusable letters when playing Scrabble, therefore I am not very good at it. We keep an emergency Scrabble Board in the office just in case we have a really long lull at work and want to interact rather than just stare at the computer screen. I have travel versions of Rummikub and Triominoes in the car for similar emergencies.

I have started playing Wordwise on my Android phone & I'm enjoying it. You can really get some weird combinations where you try to get extra points by lining up next to an existing word instead of at right angles.

From XKCD:

I've been hanging on to this images for months. Finally, a thread to post it in:

Nirvana, can you give us the link to FB? I'd like to play!

wolf;671600 wrote:

I thought you were going to be listing those words that involve X or Q without a U.

I once blundered across a Scrabble championship on some cable channel. The tension was palpable. The players were down to letters like X, Q, and Z and they were STILL PLAYING. Also, the two guys didn't look like stereotypical word-geeks. They looked like redneck truckers.

It was a bit strange for me.

Work Freak by Stefan Fatsis is a great insight into the world of competitive scrabble. Apparently certain parks are the places to go to play -where you find all sorts of characters you wouldn't immediately peg as Scrabblers. There's a whole etiquette to joining in, though. I thoroughly recommend the book if you have any interest in that sort of thing.

Here is the link SamIam

http://apps.facebook.com/ea_scrabble_closed/?ref=canvas_bkmk_top

One of the weirdest words I have gotten so far is faggoty my spell check here claims its not a word but the scrabble dictionary says it is.
Today I got ebonix scrabble words

A friend of mine played SUQS in the FB scrabble. No no no.

It's a dirty game but someone has to play it!!

:lol:

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"...but in the Latin alphabet, Jehovah begins with an I..."

ZenGum;672352 wrote:

A friend of mine played SUQS in the FB scrabble. No no no.

I have abandoned all my Scrabble principles since I started playing FB Scrabble. If it's acceptable, use it because it's all about winning and then rubbing it in the face of the person you won the game against-particularly if it's in the staffroom.:D

Alright, so usually, I'm the one who loses (fairly badly), so when I am winning, I feel it is my 100% right to do this. :D again.

"BBC" wrote:

Scrabble championship won by colourful Mikki Nicholson
Scrabble's sleepy reputation has been overturned as a transsexual in a pink wig and matching PVC dress was crowned UK national champion.

read more and see the winning board at the link

Didn't know DUH was in the dictionary!

ennage (ˈɛnɪdʒ), (n): printing the total number of ens in a piece of matter to be set in type

cur·tal
1. (adj) Archaic . wearing a short frock: a curtal friar.
2. (adj) Obsolete . brief; curtailed.
3. (n) a 16th-century bassoon.
4. (n) Obsolete . an animal with a docked tail.

I usually think I have a pretty good vocabulary, but more than half of the words in that final game were beyond me...
I seem to remember phone numbers easily and hate Scrabble.

Same with me, usually good at vocabulary (passive anyway), but didn't know half of them.

Cicero;671583 wrote:

Proper nouns! Where's the Rulebook? LOL!

Although the "Classic" version will still be sold, supposedly there's an upgrade (or dumbing down to purists) coming ...

Whattaya mean, "no no no?" I'd take "suqs" -- middle eastern bazaars, more than one of them. But then I do have a vocabulary.

All one needs is an exposure to a large enough dictionary.

Oh, and "cwm." Englished sometimes into "coombe." One of English's few borrowings from Welsh. Borrowings from Scots Gaelic are more numerous -- slogan, claymore, galore.

Urbane Guerrilla;693459 wrote:

But then I do have a vocabulary.

Yes, yes, you do. Unfortunately you use it like a caveman would use a credit card.

Urbane Guerrilla;693459 wrote:

Whattaya mean, "no no no?" I'd take "suqs" -- middle eastern bazaars, more than one of them. But then I do have a vocabulary. [/I]

So does Zen. "Vocabulary off" anyone?

Yes, Zen does. Mark of a man with an education.

Monst, you have but little taste and less discernment -- and you're determined to tell the world as much. Or is it simply your ideology reliably cockblocks your intellect? Tsk tsk. Mine does not.

Prove your contention or withdraw.

Urbane Guerrilla;694632 wrote:

Prove your contention or withdraw.

Duel, no less.