Scrabbling around
Oct. 8th, 2008 09:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
klwilliamsMy mother is a Scrabble fiend, and has taught me to play a mean game of Scrabble. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
learnteach got me hooked on iPod Scrabble (the version for the Touch), and I've been playing against the computer. John M. Ford wrote a marvelous story called "Playing Scrabble with God", and playing against the computer is kind of like that. (Did you know "bruxing" was a word?)
One of the options of playing iPod Scrabble against the computer is that you get three chances of asking the computer to tell you what move will give you the most points, given the tiles in your set. Since I was playing against something that could come up with "bruxing", I occasionally chose that option. Tonight, though, I played without getting any hints at all, and I got "riveters", a seven-tile word with the first and last letters in the triple word squares, for 158 points. My final score for that game was 465 points.
I rock.
learnteach got me hooked on iPod Scrabble (the version for the Touch), and I've been playing against the computer. John M. Ford wrote a marvelous story called "Playing Scrabble with God", and playing against the computer is kind of like that. (Did you know "bruxing" was a word?)One of the options of playing iPod Scrabble against the computer is that you get three chances of asking the computer to tell you what move will give you the most points, given the tiles in your set. Since I was playing against something that could come up with "bruxing", I occasionally chose that option. Tonight, though, I played without getting any hints at all, and I got "riveters", a seven-tile word with the first and last letters in the triple word squares, for 158 points. My final score for that game was 465 points.
I rock.
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Date: 2008-10-09 05:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-09 05:22 am (UTC)Bruxism -- one of my uncles suffered from that. Or actually, his wife suffered more, being as he was asleep when he did it, leaving her awake to hear the sound of teeth grinding in the night.
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Date: 2008-10-09 11:43 pm (UTC)I'm very out-of-practice. I'd probably suck at Trivial Pursuit these days, too. About the only game I play anymore is Second Life, and I build with LEGO, both of which are not competetive, not even really against oneself.
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Date: 2008-10-10 05:24 pm (UTC)About 6 years ago, I was addicted to Dynasty Warriors II. That was my last computer-video game obsession.
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Date: 2008-10-12 03:22 am (UTC)(Which brings to mind one of my sister-in-law's long-ago boyfriends, who was a professional backgammon player. Last we heard he was fleeing the country, on account of loaded dice or something.)
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