Scrabble

One of the things J and I did at the lake was play Scrabble.

I should note we use "Delgatty Rules":

• Since the tray can hold nine tiles, that's how many you play with. (To get the 50 point bonus, you have to use all nine tiles.)
• Looking up words in the dictionary is allowed.
• The first person must make a word at least five letters long, or pass (with no penalty).
• If you get three of the same letter, you may throw one back and get a new tile.

I've always played with these rules, and J is amenable to them.

J hasn't played for a *loooong* time. (Well, I haven't played much lately either, but I have played more recently than him.) In the first game, I beat J, although he wasn't far behind. (Even though he had a run of crappy letters.)

In the second game, J achieved a huge lead early in the game. I nearly caught up by adding "wage" to the end of "devote" for 69 points (J thought because the "s" and "d" tiles were used up, that he had blocked both triple word scores), but I still lost. It was a close game.

Here's the scores for the first two games:

In the third game, I didn't have a hope. Especially after he blew me away with the 88 point "equip" late in the game:

In my defense, I did have a crappy run of letters that game.

Well, our total was still respecable on all three games. ;) (In my family, a 500 point game is considered well played, and all three of ours topped 600.)