I felt Greg making 'row' plural was definitely against the spirit of it - grin - but it did score him more that way.
It's actually quite hard to break out of the pattern once it gets going, as you can only really play off the ends, and we're both getting quite creative with making two three letter words at once.
I'm in all day, so if you want me to phone any time, just let me know.
I was about to say all my games with beermat seem to be a variation on that! johncoxon came over to mine and saw I was playing and insisted on having a look at the game to help me with my move. When I opened it up he just stared at it for a while and eventually said, "But that's just really weird!"
Interesting. My last game with him was totally different - right out to all four corners and much longer words on average. But the only six and seven letter words were played by me.
I wonder how much impact the length of the first word played has on a game overall?
The thing is, the longer it goes on, the harder it is to break the pattern as the only places you can go are at the ends.
Oh yes it was. I find logging in through the Warwickshire library site easier than trying not to drop the Shorter Oxford getting it off the shelf. Chambers I can lift and that had the geometrical grade.
gomphosis gomuti -gon, suffix gonad gonadotrophic, -tropic, a.
Wiki has this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grad_(angle)) saying a gon is a grade is a grad is 1/400 of a circle. Or as Chambers has it 1/100 of a right angle.
This is precisely why I don't play Scrabble any more. I was once bullied into playing in a local tournament (I went out in the first round) but the final was almost exactly like this.
After I read your definitions it strikes me that most of the unusual words you use are Old English and no longer used or simply alternative spellings of much much more common spellings. To me this makes it more a game of memory or luck (guessing the right two or three letter combination) than skill.
Of course, I could just be bitter because of my atrocious speling. ;)
By the way, if you have a choice between JPG and GIF or PNG for this kind of image (letters, lines and uniform colours), use GIF or PNG. They're both better in picture quality and smaller in file size than JPG.
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(Am working through my To Do list this morning, honest guv. Just taking a break before getting on to work-reading.)
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It's actually quite hard to break out of the pattern once it gets going, as you can only really play off the ends, and we're both getting quite creative with making two three letter words at once.
I'm in all day, so if you want me to phone any time, just let me know.
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I wonder how much impact the length of the first word played has on a game overall?
The thing is, the longer it goes on, the harder it is to break the pattern as the only places you can go are at the ends.
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I know of Moy as a place in Northern Ireland, but what else is it?
And "zos"? "gon"?
And can "qi" have a plural?
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zos - a zo or zho is a cross between a yak and a cow
yes, qi can have a plural. I guess if you have several individuals, then you have several life forces.
my dictionary defines 'gon' as a geometrical grade (which tells me nothing), but another one gives it as Chaucerian English - a past tense of 'go'.
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gomphosis
gomuti
-gon, suffix
gonad
gonadotrophic, -tropic, a.
That is the list of entries at that point.
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And here was me thinking the OED had everything!
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That ROCKS.
Play KIT in the top right...
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I could do 'nit' but it wouldn't be such a good score.
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After I read your definitions it strikes me that most of the unusual words you use are Old English and no longer used or simply alternative spellings of much much more common spellings. To me this makes it more a game of memory or luck (guessing the right two or three letter combination) than skill.
Of course, I could just be bitter because of my atrocious speling. ;)
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Either that or the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator personality test would have something to say about me / us :)
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