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Scrabble To Allow Proper Nouns
Hogwash McFly writes "The rules of the popular word game Scrabble are soon to allow proper nouns. Mattel, the maker of the game, hopes the changes made for a new edition, released this July, will 'add a new dimension' to Scrabble and 'introduce an element of popular culture into the game.' With this rule change, the company hopes to target younger fans and families, although they will continue to sell the traditional version where 'Beyonce' and 'Facebook' are not permitted words." Nobody is listening to my suggestion to penalize by one tile any player who has memorized every two-letter English word.
Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, triple word score. Suck it.
Living With a Nerd
I'm waiting till they start to allow acronyms, so that we geeks can win with our multitude of TLAs.
"Mattel, the makers of the game, hope the changes made for a new edition, released this July, will "add a new dimension" to Scrabble and "dumb the game down so it can be enjoyed by a generation of near-illiterates". "
Yeah, there's appealing to the masses and then there's making it so your product no longer makes any sense. They've obvious chosen the Michael Bay approach.
Now considered part of online and texting culture, Mattel has decided to allow "words" such as LOL, OMG, and BFF.
To play this enhanced game, Mattel hopes to sell new copies of the game worldwide. Also slated for late 2010 is a version with exclamation points and other punctuation.
A Mattel representative presenting the new variants on the classic brand, "We have not decided if you earn points or lose points for excessive punctuation. LOL!!11!"
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
Should have memorized definitions in stead. Especially of the word "game".
sudo ergo sum
1) Change your name via Deed-Poll to the letters left in your rack.
2) Place letters on board
3) ???
4) Profit!
I'm going to start using qwyjibo as often as I can...
In related news, Parker Bros is releasing a new edition of RISK that uses a single coin instead of 5 dice. Heads you win, tails you lose.
- For the complete works of Shakespeare: cat
I'm going to start using qwyjibo as often as I can...
Why not, it's a perfectly cromulent word.
Dubhaltach_Mac_Fhirbhisigh
Crap - no vowels again! Oh well.. I name this table fhzbgyn. That's a 7 letter word, across two triple word scores! Sweet :D
which is totally what she said
When there are 2 defenders there's a possibility both players lose one so you'd need a 3 sided die
But...
3 attackers - 2 defenders (37.2% both, 33.6% one)
3 attackers - 1 defender (66.0%)
2 attackers - 2 defenders (22.8% both, 32.4% one)
2 attackers - 1 defender (57.9%)
1 attacker - 1 defender (41.7%)
are all different odds... so really you need two weighted three sided die, and three weighted coins (which incidentally brings us back up to 5 items, but at least no one needs to figure out which die have the most dots)
I'm going to start using qwyjibo as often as I can...
Why not, it's a perfectly cromulent word.
I've never heard of it. Clearly I need to embiggen my vocabulary.
Comedian: "I just flew in from Chicago... and boy are my arms tired! hahaha"
TheCycoONE: "Given the average mass of a resident of Chicago, and comparing it to the minuscule amount of lift that could be generated from human arms, even with vigorous flapping motions, we can extrapolate the following formulas to show the improbability of this occurrence..."
- For the complete works of Shakespeare: cat
The french version of scrabble has a value of 10 for the W and Y letters, because they are in very few words. If only I was allowed tu use english words....
Why? How would any English words help you?
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
OH MY GOD!
Do you seriously mean to say that Americans are going to be the ones that don't have the dumbed-down version of Scrabble???
7 is my pet name for 8.
which is totally what she said
I've always preferred jozxyqk myself. Erm, I mean, I prefer to use it in Scrabble. I'd hate to have to use it in real life.
It's a perfectly valid word. It's the sound you get when you get your sexual organs trapped in something. I saw it used on TV so it must be real!
They've obvious chosen the Michael Bay approach.
I'll pay extra to watch people's Scrabble boards explode when they get a triple word score.
c..e..i..l..i..n..g..c..a..t**BOOM**
Some decades after a maternity ward Scrabble game:
"Sir, could please give your full name for the court?"
"Qfuhbix Triplewordscore Inyourface Jones"
Momentarily, the need for the construction of new light will no longer exist.
Do you seriously mean to say that Americans are going to be the ones that don't have the dumbed-down version of Scrabble???
Oh yeah! Suck it Europe!
Did someone just say my name?
If you're over at my house, and we're playing Scrabble, and you try to fucking play "YouTube", I'm going to punch you straight in the cock.
And I'm going to film it.
And I'm going to upload the clip to YouTube.
"I guess the moral of the story is, don't paint your airship with rocket fuel." -- Addison Bain
I think it's called the MS Bob approach. ;)
It's what you get, when you mix up "elegant", "emergent" or "efficient" with "simple", and listen to the loud dumb clients to make the thing useless for everyone with half a brain, while telling the intelligent critics that the dumb would not get it. Some people really think they could make more money that way...
Ahh.. The Apple strategy..
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it.
int. Expr. surprise, pain, frustration, entreaty, disappointment, sorrow, relief, hesitation, disdain, doubt, etc. (freq. w. other ints., as oh damn!, oh my!, oh no!, oh well!, etc). Also (poet. & rhet.), (a) preceding a vocative in address and apostrophe, (b) introducing an emphatic statement or declaration, (c) expr. a wish for a thing or that a thing might be the case. M16.