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Aaroneous Miller

Dec 16, 2023 07:29

lol that's definitely my first time seeing "gyatt" in scrabble

lyxal

Dec 16, 2023 07:28

Scrabble with the urban dictionary allowed

Nat

Dec 3, 2023 04:11

So, if we did some studies and found that the brains of people who play competitive Scrabble are different from others in some way, then... I mean, cool, neat study, right? But I wouldn't see much meaning in terms of there being such a thing as a "Scrabble brain" for a Scrabble-player's identity or whatever. It just wouldn't follow.

Boardgames

Nov 24, 2023 12:19

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Q: Adam Logan vs. Ben Schoenbrun (2023 Canadian Scrabble Classic): where can JUN be placed?

In this YouTube video, the commentators say in this position that if Adam Logan plays JUN then Ben Schoenbrun will play SIJO and win. However, I cannot find where JUN can be legally placed on this board. I guess I'm missing some obscure word here. Question: Where can JUN be placed?

scrabble

Unrelated String

Nov 6, 2023 06:17

i am literally doing searches on the scrabble dictionary now

Zibelas

Oct 26, 2023 14:07

if you know how/ what you want in your scrabble, it is probably a 2-3 day project of coding, it is not that complicated of a game

Zibelas

Oct 26, 2023 13:54

networking for that scrabble?

Unrelated String

Oct 17, 2023 17:06

which makes sense if it's targeted at scrabble players and all :P

lyxal

Oct 17, 2023 12:15

very similar to waffle but a scrabble board

Puzzling

Oct 17, 2023 06:00

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Q: Which tiles would make the most 7 letter words? (0-2 blanks)

I just had "STRUNE?" (?=blank) and noticed A LOT of possible 7 letter words! Used an anagrammer and found 34! What is the combination of tiles able to create the most 7 letter words? with no blanks with 1 blank with 2 blanks

anagram scrabble

Sphinx

Oct 16, 2023 21:21

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Q: NEWBIE SETS A CHALLENGE! 😂

Hope this fits here: I just had "STRUNE?" (?=blank) and noticed A LOT of possible 7 letter words! Used an anagramer and found 34! Anyone know or fancy calculatung the combination of tiles able to create the most 7 letter words? 🤔 with no blanks with 1 blank with 2 blanks Would be VERY interested!!

probability scrabble

Sphinx

Oct 5, 2023 12:37

0

Q: Maximize an Nx7 rectangle of words step-by-step

In Scrabble, you score points for each new word you make on your turn. Therefore, on a board of AIRLINE and holding a rack of FLOATED, instead of playing FLOATED AIRLINE to score only the points for FLOATED and DA, you should play the seven-letter overlap FLOATED AIRLINE because you score...

optimization

Puzzling

Oct 4, 2023 00:00

9

Q: The Wug Test For Grownups

Jean Gleason has invented a brand new test for adults to try, not just kids!

enigmatic-puzzle wordplay scrabble

Sphinx

Oct 3, 2023 15:50

1

Q: The Wug Test For Grownups

Jean Gleason has invented a brand new test for adults to try, not just kids!

enigmatic-puzzle wordplay scrabble

emanresu A

Oct 3, 2023 03:54

Now I'm imagining esolang scrabble

lyxal

Oct 3, 2023 03:47

we've done this for like 3 years every time we get together and there's a scrabble board nearby

lyxal

Oct 3, 2023 03:34

also, that means I could theoretically play lyxal in a scrabble game

lyxal

Oct 3, 2023 03:34

@lyxal it's become sort of a tradition when I play scrabble with my cousins to allow the urban dictionary to be used, meaning half the time spent on turns is just looking up random words to see if they exist

lyxal

Oct 3, 2023 03:33

(quine is in the scrabble dict btw)

lyxal

Oct 3, 2023 03:33

imagine playing scrabble using the scrabble dictionary

Rydwolf Programs

Oct 3, 2023 03:32

Lol I got quine in scrabble once. Probably not in the scrabble dictionary but since it was on google my family took it lol

DLosc

Sep 22, 2023 22:29

The French Scrabble Champion who doesn't speak French

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GentlePurpleRain

Sep 13, 2023 19:35

Yes, a closer look at the image makes me think these tiles are hand-made, and they do not resemble any commercially-available braille Scrabble tiles I could find online (which all have a printed letter along with the braille. So I'm inclined to agree with Stiv.

Stiv

Sep 13, 2023 19:33

His Stack Exchange bio shows he is from Clermont-Ferrand, France. I do believe he has deliberately created this puzzle himself, using French language words, just that he hadn't necessarily made the connection between these 'coded Scrabble tiles' and Braille as a system.

GentlePurpleRain

Sep 13, 2023 19:29

@GarethMcCaughan I think it would be plausible to assume that someone had braille Scrabble tiles that they got somehow (thrift store, gift, found on the street) and decided to use them to create a puzzle, without realizing that they were braille. But to have "randomly" arranged them into French words without knowing what the letters are seems rather implausible.

Sphinx

Sep 12, 2023 19:46

0

Q: Creating a high number from this grid using minimal math operation

I'm creating a puzzle. From this grid, how could I output a ten digit number ? I would like to give only a piece of scrabble with some minimalist info about how to solve the puzzle to my players (see below). So far the best I've done is having a double sided piece of scrabble like this as a hint...

formation-of-numbers puzzle-creation

Pacmanboss256

Aug 29, 2023 19:12

im trying the scrabble score thing and i needed to use an extra leading digit in my base 11 number to make it work

Captain Obvious

Aug 26, 2023 10:37

0

Q: Program to find all possible legal words and their scores in a Wordfeud (or Scrablle) game

To anyone who doesn't know WordFeud, but is familiar with Scrabble, WordFeud is just a variation with different letter bonus placements. The code below is complete and runnable. Given a WordFeud board and 7 letters, it will generate all words that a player can place on the board with those letter...

c++

Sphinx

Aug 7, 2023 12:13

0

Q: Is there any word that starts with "A", ends with "Z" and contains "T" in English?

While playing Scrabble, I needed to find a word that starts with A and ends with Z and contains T. Is there such a word or should I keep thinking for a few more days? :)

riddle word wordplay crosswords scrabble

Boardgames

Aug 6, 2023 03:41

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Q: Why is the first word doubled in Scrabble?

How does the first-word-is-double-points rule affect the game of scrabble? From a game design point of view. I wonder if it gives an (additional?) advantage to the first player, or actually makes the game more fair than it would have been if the word were scored normally.

game-design scrabble

Mitch

Jul 29, 2023 16:17

If we were playing Scrabble, 'timecode' would be entirely unremarkable (is ni one would even think of challenging it) but I can sorta see how it might not be in the NYT Spelling Bee dictionary.

Cerberus

Jul 10, 2023 17:40

We only play dirty-words Scrabble.

Robusto

Jul 10, 2023 17:27

Still, there are probably people who do play Scrabble by those rules. But they are the exception. About the same number of people as play 3D chess, I should think.

Mitch

Jul 10, 2023 17:14

That's the best part of scrabble, making up a word and convincing people it's a word.

Mitch

Jul 6, 2023 16:25

which is the point of scrabble, right?

Mitch

Jul 6, 2023 16:24

that's a good scrabble word

TheDemonLord

Jun 16, 2023 14:47

@CitizenRon - I'll ask you this then - why is it in any competitive venture, even with our modern technology - that Men out-compete women? Doesn't matter if it's War all the way down to Scrabble. The problem with 'keeping unruly breeders in line' is that you need to be able to enforce your will and you need to be willing to die to do so. I mean, we can look at the Slave revolts historically - lead by men.

Paul White

Jun 5, 2023 21:18

Are we talking about Scrabble tho

J.D.

Jun 5, 2023 21:17

Hah such an excellent Scrabble word though. 30+ points without any score modifiers.

J.D.

Jun 2, 2023 02:03

Great Scrabble word though.

Erik Darling

May 18, 2023 20:44

upwords was cooler than scrabble

J.D.

May 18, 2023 20:43

I'm building a Scrabble game with MAUI for fun at the moment. It's pretty good, but there's definitely still a lot of things they need to work out in it too.

Mitch

Apr 26, 2023 15:08

I went through the scrabble pile and removed all of them.

J.D.

Apr 26, 2023 14:11

I forget, does Words with Friends do more than 2 player games too? I'm always good for a game of Scrabble, or of the like.

J.D.

Apr 4, 2023 02:39

@mustaccio I've always been a Scrabble beast. So Wordle fits the genre.

CowperKettle

Mar 20, 2023 04:31

My dog ate all the Scrabble tiles. I left him at the vets.
No word yet.

tchrist

Feb 25, 2023 21:30

2

Q: Is there a known reason that English has so many short words?

Anyone who has played scrabble-like games in English and other languages cannot help but notice that English has an extremely high number of two and three-letter words. Is there a known historic-linguistic reason that English has so many short words?

linguistics

rak1507

Feb 23, 2023 04:28

there are already anki-like things for scrabble (spaced repetition of anagrams) but I think approaching it from multiple angles is probably good for learning (well, that's the hope anyway)

rak1507

Feb 23, 2023 04:27

sorta, but scrabble related, also having it be programmable is nice as I can easily ask to test 'find all 4 letter words with xyz' or whatever

Sphinx

Feb 20, 2023 21:12

0

Q: Trochaic hexameter

This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #7: Board games. I was visiting the club yesterday, and I saw some people playing a weird word game araound a table. They use Scrabble-like tiles with colored shapes on them. And they have weird names. And they each say a qwote that sounds unusu...

wordplay pattern story cryptic-clues board-games