Joe and I decided to get better at Scrabble. We’ve played a bunch of practice games and started to memorize the two and three letter words. Despite this, Chris Fosmire pwned us, partly due to his invented word “THROTLE”, I saw the tiles go down and assumed there was a third T. I’ll never trust my boss again.
Anyway, after an amazing game of three-at-once words, Q’s on triple letter scores in two directions the scores still barely broke 200 (intermediate players should hit 500 to 700). In a last ditch effort, we lasted two hours at Teejay Green’s playing two enraging games. I had the tiles AAEIRTS and I knew there was a seven letter word in there. After three minutes of staring, I played ATRIA for a whopping 12 points only to find today that ATRESIA would have have net me 76. If someone had pointed it out to me, Joe and Teejay would have been picking wood out of their teeth.
Words hard.
Joe and I are looking for something new to become obsessed with, preferably something easier to become skilled at like sepak takraw (great video) or Sanskrit (good comic).