Got a few triple word scores, started the game with "quince" (which was upgraded from "quiner" when it was discovered that word wasn't in the Scrabble dictionary...) No seven-letter words... don't think I've ever managed one of those, actually... but I managed to do some good stuff with single letters, connecting quince and "_E_T" to make quinces and seat with my last move... Continued generally being thwarty through the whole game. Certain housemates have implied I might want to find a way to lock my door so I can sleep safely tonight.
It wasn't actually that good but it was one of the more fun Scrabble games I've played in a long time.
It wasn't actually that good but it was one of the more fun Scrabble games I've played in a long time.
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Hrm... I tend not to like that version of Scrabble. I prefer the one documented on the box lid. :)
The concept of quining was of course invented by Goedel.
Scrabble in the U.S. and Canada is owned by Hasbro. Their rules and the rules North American competitions use state you lose your turn if you're challenged and lose (or if you make a challenge and you're wrong).
But in the rest of the world Scrabble is owned by Mattel, Hasbro's archnemesis. In the rest of the world the standard rule is that a challenge is free and losing a challenge you pull the word and try again.
The trick is to look for them when you have common longish endings like IERS or IEST, especially if you have a blank on your rack.
If it's the middle of a game with lots of openings on the board and you have a blank and one of those combinations of letters (and the rest of your letters aren't too horrible) then you can almost always make a 7 letter word.
My favourite was ROTARIES which is all single point tiles but landed on two double-word squares.