BACKGROUND: I've been playing Scrabble all my life, as has my whole family. Just as some boys remember clearly the first time they beat their dad at basketball, I remember clearly the first time I beat my Mom at Scrabble. My ex-fiance was the best Scrabble player I've ever seen, and we enjoyed playing that game a lot. I even enjoyed it despite her constantly winning. And no, I didn't LET her win....she was so damn good that I didn't need to. Nor would I have...both of us are very competitive people.
All that being said, I play Scrabble a lot on my Kindle. If nothing else, it keeps me in practice for when I actually play someone live. And today, something magical happened.
I got the highest score I remember ever getting in a Scrabble game (509), but even more than that, I got the highest score on a single word I've EVER had. I don't even need to think if I remember it, I know I've never scored this high.
The word's score? 212. Two hundred twelve freakin' points on a single freakin' word. I about shit myself.
The word? On a P that was already on the board, I placed EXPORTED. The O was on a Double Letter square. The word stretched across two Triple Word squares. And I used all seven tiles, so it was a bingo. Did I mention that I about shit myself?
My only regret is that this was not in live play against another person. Because that is the kind of play that could crush the opposition. The kind of play that both players remember for a long, long time.
I still remember one time when I beat my ex-fiance. She was winning the whole game, and then on my last play, I had a triple word bingo for a ridiculous score (somewhere around the 90-110 point range) to both end and win the game. She just stared at the board for a few moments in stunned silence....it was classic.
Today's score was equally awesome, other than the lack of a live opponent of course. I'm still geekily giddy about it.
So....any other Scrabble geek stories out there?
All that being said, I play Scrabble a lot on my Kindle. If nothing else, it keeps me in practice for when I actually play someone live. And today, something magical happened.
I got the highest score I remember ever getting in a Scrabble game (509), but even more than that, I got the highest score on a single word I've EVER had. I don't even need to think if I remember it, I know I've never scored this high.
The word's score? 212. Two hundred twelve freakin' points on a single freakin' word. I about shit myself.
The word? On a P that was already on the board, I placed EXPORTED. The O was on a Double Letter square. The word stretched across two Triple Word squares. And I used all seven tiles, so it was a bingo. Did I mention that I about shit myself?
My only regret is that this was not in live play against another person. Because that is the kind of play that could crush the opposition. The kind of play that both players remember for a long, long time.
I still remember one time when I beat my ex-fiance. She was winning the whole game, and then on my last play, I had a triple word bingo for a ridiculous score (somewhere around the 90-110 point range) to both end and win the game. She just stared at the board for a few moments in stunned silence....it was classic.
Today's score was equally awesome, other than the lack of a live opponent of course. I'm still geekily giddy about it.
So....any other Scrabble geek stories out there?
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