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I wonder about going the other way, adding more short words that make the game flow better (how about VI? Or just allow any two letter combination?). My experi
by jrumbut 4y ago
I wonder about going the other way, adding more short words that make the game flow better (how about VI? Or just allow any two letter combination?).
My experience having briefly gotten into competitive scrabble 15 years ago is that memorizing the short words is the price of admission for a more fun game. Knowing the short words makes it possible to fit the long words on the board.
- iopq 4y agoIf you're going to go that way, the obvious word to add would be ov, a more "cult" spelling of the word "of" instead of "za" I would suggest "ze" as a pronoun for a non-binary person
- Tams80 4y agoI assume 'ye' and an alternative to 'the' would be acceptable under those rules then?
- iopq 4y agoI think it's already accepted as in "Hear ye"
- mbg721 4y agoWhat do you suggest as a substitute insufferable way of referring to pizza?
- iopq 4y agoI already said, no more za, add "ze" as in a non-binary person
- njarboe 4y agoPart of what I liked about older scrabble dictionaries (you can use any dictionary you like) was the variance in difficulty in using various letters. Get an 'X'. That is a nice letter to have with high scoring potential with lots of two letter words. A 'J', not so much with only JO as a two letter word. Z, high value with a large word set, but can't go two ways (no ZA). Q, high value but a bit of a pain in the ass and you need a U. Maybe you should turn it in. Now with QI, QAT, etc., the Q is not as cool. But nothing says you have to accept those words. Often we don't play with them. As suggested elsewhere, we play with a two letter cheat sheet to make the game more fun for those that don't know all those words.