Just got 33 pts for MASON playing scrabble !

My daughter, her husband and I were playing Scrabble several years ago. She had just finished spelling the word DEATH when the phone rang. It was my son calling to say that their grandfather and great grandmother had just been killed in a car crash.

Wow! I've noticed other strange things while playing scrabble.

NOBODY fucking cares!

scrabble is the devils' work

My name is Abraham , I can't lie.

Why do you say that ? I've noticed a lot of weird "Coincedences" with words while playing scrabble or words with friends.

Scrabble is the modern day Ouija board!!!

If you play Scrabble with the ORIGINAL RULES, is that the word simply has to be in the Oxford English Dictionary, NOT that stupid Scrabble dictionary that they brought in in the 1970's, there are some super-great word that you can use.

<y favourite words...

QU ...As an opening, it is truly awesome. Likelihood is that no-one can follow you. It is also a great way to get rid of a Q at the end of the game. Incidentally, QU is a Sixteenth Century Elizabethan coin worth half a Groat.

QINTER ...Not spelt with a U. It is also a coin, actually from ALbania but is in the Oxford English Dictionary.

QADI ...Again, not spelt with a u. (There are 17 valid scrabble words in English wioth no u after the q) Incidentally, a Qadi is one of those Iranian judges who has thieves hands cut off as punishment under Islamic law.

JOEY ...Is a baby Kangaroo.

VERT, JAMBE, PURPURE, ARGENT - Amongst others. Heraldry of the Middle Ages injected a vast array of seemingly pure French words straight into the English language. Incidentally, when pronounced, these once French words are pronounced as if in clumsy English, so, for instance the T is pronounced in VERT etc..

HAJ - Allows one to attach to a blocked J. The haj, of course, being a muslim pilgrimage.

I was actually playing words with friends which is a little easier than scrabble, you don't lose your turn for a mis-spelled word.

I like the words TAO & AEON

What's the most points anyone here has gotten playing Scrabble or WWF, in a game or one word ?

ANother hyperbrutal word is....QUIZMASTER run over a bunch of tripe word scores.

There are two maximum score words on a turn possible...One of them I remember is Quartzy. Cant remember the other.

Incidentally, QUARTZY over two triple word scores is ...

302 POINTS - The absolute maximum for one complete word.

Really cool, thanks

CWM is another fabulous word.

CWM, in the dictionary, is great as it has no A, E, I, O or U nor even Y as a stand it.

In actuality, the W acts as the vowel.

CWM (pronounced "Koom" is a Welsh word, adopted into the English language. It is an aggravated frost hollow on the side of a mountain that begins to slowly exude enough snow and ice that it becomes the birthplace of a new glacier.

Geomorphology is a science that has also provided a whole array of weird useful words like...

GEODE - the rock formation inwhich quartz occurs

NUNATAK - The top of a mountain, rising above a glacier

KROTOVINA - A filled in rabbit hole.

ISOSTATIC - A style of tectonic uplift.

...And, apart from this, weather alos provides...

RIME - A type of frost.

We love this 33-score 'kismet' testimony - course we care!

LOL at you.

:)

The world record for a single turn score was set by a carpenter from Mass. in the USA in 2006 at an incredible, 830 points for a single word.