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Pah! Unfairly disallowed Scrabble words.....

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Justiceisblind · 31/12/2020 20:51

Pah! What kind of family bubble New Year’s Eve party is this?
The family have just disallowed using an I to join YET to JET to make YETIJET when everyone knows YETIJET is a generic term for airlines specialising in Nepalese travel.......

Does anyone else have similar injustices to report?

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Justiceisblind · 31/12/2020 22:15

Nacho, I think you know the answer will just reveal a dysfunctional aspect of my personality....

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WitchesBritchesPumpkinPants · 31/12/2020 22:15

I have non scrabble related injustices to report, hope that's ok...

I LOVE fireworks, there's been loads tonight. I even LOVE BIG BANGY fireworks. My idea of heaven is LAS FALLAS in Valencia & their general lives of loud fireworks...

But the neighbours just let some Big BANGY ones off like I haven't heard before in England...and I almost wet my pants it gave me such a fright!

Secondly, I bought some of the Gin & Tonic After Eights, very disappointing, they taste exactly like the normal ones to me.

WhatWouldPhyllisCraneDo · 31/12/2020 22:16

We play Harry Potter scrabble in our house. You get extra points for Harry Potter words. Only you're even less likely to have the right letters for those.

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Justiceisblind · 31/12/2020 22:17
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Justiceisblind · 31/12/2020 22:19

What’s YEET when it’s at home?

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Destinysdaughter · 31/12/2020 22:23

I get your pain OP. I had a 2 hour argument with her sister and her DH about Srabble words in August when I went to see them and I even started a thread about it! I'd been playing online before and they were using a really old dictionary. We were both convinced we were right and I stick to playing strangers online now. The computer will tell you what's allowed!

redcandlelight · 31/12/2020 22:23

we speak 3 languages at home.
any game of scrabble is preceeded by an hour discussion on which languahe we play.

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Justiceisblind · 31/12/2020 22:25

Could be worse.
Neighbours played Monopoly on Christmas Day. We’re still dealing with the fallout. Luckily they have a big house.

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viques · 31/12/2020 22:26

I play wordscapes on my phone and there are a lot of perfectly fine words it sticks its fingers in its ears at. It also accepts words that aren’t words like ref and pec, and wrongly spelled words but I can’t think of an example.

I don’t care that it is a US game, I’m playing it in English dontcha know. It also successfully blocks rude words, which is clever stuff, someone must have been given the job of listing all the swear words they could think of.

broccolibush · 31/12/2020 22:27

OP you need to play new scrabble with less miserable bastards.

You make up a word. It has to be pronounceable. It has to be something you can define and derive. In those rules YETIJET would have been perfectly acceptable. Ditto VIXENLY.

How does language evolve if not through the medium of scrabble?

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Justiceisblind · 31/12/2020 22:29

Crikey there’s a whole world of complication out there.

I had two swear words on my tiles tonight btw but was able to substitute something else without losing points.
They were very Mumsnetty swear words.

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RustyBear · 31/12/2020 22:32

@viques - yes, I get really annoyed at Wordscapes' less-than-comprehensive dictionary too.

Elisheva · 31/12/2020 22:37

To yeet means to launch something (apparently).

HarrietSchulenberg · 31/12/2020 22:43

"Detwined" really SHOULD have been allowed tonight, that's all I'm saying.

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Justiceisblind · 31/12/2020 22:46

Untwine?

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Prokupatuscrakedatus · 31/12/2020 22:49

I have given up playing scrabble with DH - he's an author and knows words - long triple pointy words!

citycity German words have endless (almost) possibilities for extension Grin

EveryoneHasLostTheGame · 01/01/2021 00:44

@Justiceisblind

What’s YEET when it’s at home?
It's like flinging something.

Like if I crashed in a car without a seatbelt on I'd be yeeted out of the window.

If you were playing with me I'd have thrown a strip and walked out in disgust but you're not so I'll yetijet is totally allowed!

MyNameHasBeenTaken · 01/01/2021 01:56

I was playing a scrabble app yesterday.
It refused to accept Latin as a word.
I like yetijet.

NiceGerbil · 01/01/2021 03:30

We play with erm interesting rules.

One is we refer to the same Big Dictionary. Unless it's a recent word because the Big Dictionary is from about 1992.

The online things are all shit they just do American.

However I will give you

Qi
Zo

As words in my dictionary. Have fun!

Thesagacontinues · 01/01/2021 06:52

Did anyone buy the actual scrabble dictionary?
At the minute we check google but a little pocket sized book would be very useful.

NachoNachoMan · 01/01/2021 10:43

@Thesagacontinues we do, it's good toilet book. I flick through it and take note of all the 2 letter words which will come in handy!

GrouchyKiwi · 01/01/2021 10:52

@Justiceisblind

Not in my house. Yours?

But my house is weird because everyone but me says the middle square is not a double word score.

Everyone else in your house is WRONG. It's printed on the box and everything.

I hope that helps you feel better.

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