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In fact, you do need to care about the short words. 1. they can be useful at locking down the board 2. knowing all of the words is necessary to be able to cha
by vunderba 2y ago
In fact, you do need to care about the short words.
1. they can be useful at locking down the board
2. knowing all of the words is necessary to be able to challenge when somebody attempt to play a phony, which, as a native Spanish speaker, you might be even more inclined to try against a non-native speaker.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 2y agoDo professional scrabble players use fake words as a strategy? I assumed that (minus the weirdo savant playing in a foreign language), everyone at the professional level has an extensive vocabulary for which it would be difficult to bluff.
- vunderba 2y agoIt's not super common but if I was playing against somebody who didn't speak the lingua franca I'd probably throw out a couple phonies to test the waters. The CSW is the official English word list used internationally (outside of the US/Thailand/Canada because we just HAD to be different) and contains over a quarter of a million words. Unless you're at the UPPER OF UPPER ECHELONS, there's a chance a crafty player could slip a phony in by hooking an "S" on the board or some other subtle stem - especially with the pressure of time controls.
- numeri 2y agoYes, from what I understand – and they also make mistakes.
- michaelt 2y agoScrabble players at world champion level operate at the very edge of what is or isn't a word. Everyone knows words like "fork", "vogue" and "alligator" but only scrabble players know whether or not "forkier", "defork", "voguier", "voguiest", "alligatored" and "alligate" are real words.