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"I don't mean to be gross, but the only time it's ok to say, 'I have diarrhea,' is when you're playing Scrabble...because it's worth a shitload of points." - Zack Galifianakis

S₁ Q₁₀ U₁ E₁ E₁ Z₁₀ E₁
BINGO!!
120 points.. first word of the game. Hell yes! (one of the words i used)


            F₄
            R₁
R E T I N A
E           Z₁₀
D           Z₁₀
C           L₁
A           E₁
R O B E D₂

360 point word + 50 pts for BINGO + plus 8pts (adding onto probe) 418 points!!!! holy fuck
pure fucking luck


Almost any sport/game can be played in (usually) two ways either recreationally or competitively. Whether it's a leisure game of tag with your friends and neighbors, or you may find yourself running in the darkness of the night, praying you wont be smack/punched down and tagged. whatever the variation it's still the same sport, only the intensity has changed. Same rules can be applied to the game Scrabble as well. You can play for fun with your Grandma, or you can play for victory against your crazy neighbor who seems to eat dictionaries for breakfast.I honestly LOVE playing scrabble. I used to play it everyday with my boyfriend at the time (now ex). I admit I even own the Scrabble Dictionary, when we got extremely competitive in the game we would use it to disprove or prove the legality of a word. We'd end up scoring each around 250+ in a single game. not including the few instances in which we (or one of us) both got bingos (where you use all 7 tiles) in a game; for those who don't know calling BINGO (with a valid word) is automatically 50 points on top of whatever score the word earned you, or the best is when you get a BINGO by adding on to another word, especially if you place a tile on the triple word score, which is rare but incredibly high scoring.
There is just something about the game of Scrabble that makes it such an amazing game, at least in my eyes anyway. Not only does it make you think and learn but it also stirs up almost every emotion. Excitement when you see a perfect spot to play some of your letters, that would just kill the competition; sadness when someone plays in that spot; defeat/stress (in a way) when you constantly keep picking/getting consonant from the bag -or- you have like almost every 1 point letter and your hope you can win by those two letter words; glory when you see you can use all seven tiles; confusion when you think your playing a high scoring word only to know it wasn't worth shit.
I love playing Scrabble, but it's hard to find someone to play with majority of the people I know can't stand the game. I know that there are some Scrabble- like games/ways to play online like through Yahoo! games, but for some unknown reason, it's not the same (obviously), Scrabble is one of those games that must be played in person with the board in front of you. Don't get me wrong I love playing computer/video games especially via xboxlive, but not this game.