Categories: just-life
Date: 09 October 2007 23:12:40
As I have mentioned on a couple of occasions I am a slightly competitive person. One of the best things I have found about the evil that is Facebook is the ability to play the marvellous game that is Scrabble. Today I had a narrow squeak of a win. Fourteen points down, only the letters 'N' and 'U' left (both worth one point). Bad placement of earlier tiles that meant that half the board was unused and very hard to access, the other half, very crowded.
Thankfully I spotted 'UNMIX' which gave me a win by three points. It would have been more, but the version of Scrabble used by Facebook is not the same as normal. You do not gain the left-over points of your opponents.
What is even more annoying is that the default dictionary setting is the Tournament Word List which is what they use in America. This is a rubbish list that has nearly thirty-nine THOUSAND fewer words than the SOWPODS or International Word List. There are few things more arggravating that playing a word that I know is a word, is acceptable and for Scrabulous to tell me that a word is "Invalid" when I know it isn't.... Grrrr......
So people, this is my plea. When you challenge someone to a game, pick the SOWPODS dictionary. It's the ENGLISH version with the proper words. Not Yankee english where they can't be bothered to writ all the letters.