Just got an email from an old colleague and friend informing me that he “went to wake this morning of your old Scrabble buddy Betty McKinney.” I was sorry to hear that, because she was my buddy, for the three years I worked on a magazine in the Boston area …
596! That’s what I scored in computer Scrabble minutes ago. Beat my inhuman nemesis, Maven, by over 250 points. Played five seven/eight-letter words: reliers, earrings, seamiest, foreign, toadying. Ah, but he got the last laugh. He knows I’m dying to break 600 — and he kept me from doing so …
I almost broke 600 the other day, playing computer Scrabble! I made four seven-letter words — one on a triple, triple — for a total of 378 points in four plays! I had 598 and four letters left (cing) when Maven played an eight-letter word and went out and I …
Played a helluva game with Maven last week: seven bingos between us! Three for him, four for me, for a final score of 516-487 and a combined total of over 1000 points!
I was playing Scrabble on the computer recently (the wife won’t play me anymore) and losing 250 to 343, with one play left, but found a seven-letter word (treated) — and, finally, a place to play it — and made 74 points. Still, I was 19 points behind. Luckily, “Maven” …
I’m beginning to wonder about Maven’s learning curve. Sure, he’s the nearly infallible inhuman brain behind computer Scrabble, but he just doesn’t seem to understand what a bad idea it is to play into the outer rows and columns between the triple word scores. You may recall how I exploited …
Maven, the virtually infallible brain of computer Scrabble, blew it again today. It was near the end of the game: I had played two bingos (vinegar and clenched) and was leading by more than 100 points, but Maven closed the gap with a bingo of his own (pigtails). Unfortunately, for …
Maven, the virtually infallible brain of computer Scrabble, made a big mistake yesterday. On his second turn, he played a horizontal word starting with g in the far left column, halfway between the two triple-word scores, setting me up for a triple-triple, eight-letter bingo (9x the total point value, plus …
