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Frustrating Scrabble
I'm having one of the most frustrating Scrabble games of my life.
Owing to some bug in Scrabble Worldwide, instead of a game with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
megamole , it set me up with someone else. As the other person seemed quite happy to play, I decided to continue with the game.
She's an absolutely terrible player (14% wins in 157 games), though I realised she was bad from her opening move which wasted a number of good tiles for hardly any score at all.
The laughable thing about it is that her playing style (all two and three letter words, spread out along the double word scores) is actually making it quite difficult to beat her (that and a lucky play that gave her a two letter word with Z in a good position that netted her 60 points). There's simply nowhere to play long words. I've already had to discard one bingo as there was nowhere to place it.
I guess it's good for me in a way. For once, I'm actually having to think hard about how to create hooks and bingo lines, whereas normally, I just rely on them appearing in the normal course of the game.
It's actually possible that she'll beat me through sheer grinding board-lock. (I'm not the world's best player, but I expect to win around 2/3 of my games - with a bit of help from Richard)
She's just blocked a 'I' that I'd set up so there would be something to cross through. I wouldn't mind so much if it had been a better use of the position. She wasted her Q there for 11 points, when there was a free U not far from a double word score which she could surely have used to much better effect if she'd waited to collect whatever she needed. (The U would still have blocked me, but at least I'd have felt it was doing something useful)
Anyway, enough moaning. I'd better try and set up a new bingo line. I nearly did it this time, but I could only make six letter words from the tiles I had in hand.
Owing to some bug in Scrabble Worldwide, instead of a game with
megamole , it set me up with someone else. As the other person seemed quite happy to play, I decided to continue with the game.She's an absolutely terrible player (14% wins in 157 games), though I realised she was bad from her opening move which wasted a number of good tiles for hardly any score at all.
The laughable thing about it is that her playing style (all two and three letter words, spread out along the double word scores) is actually making it quite difficult to beat her (that and a lucky play that gave her a two letter word with Z in a good position that netted her 60 points). There's simply nowhere to play long words. I've already had to discard one bingo as there was nowhere to place it.
I guess it's good for me in a way. For once, I'm actually having to think hard about how to create hooks and bingo lines, whereas normally, I just rely on them appearing in the normal course of the game.
It's actually possible that she'll beat me through sheer grinding board-lock. (I'm not the world's best player, but I expect to win around 2/3 of my games - with a bit of help from Richard)
She's just blocked a 'I' that I'd set up so there would be something to cross through. I wouldn't mind so much if it had been a better use of the position. She wasted her Q there for 11 points, when there was a free U not far from a double word score which she could surely have used to much better effect if she'd waited to collect whatever she needed. (The U would still have blocked me, but at least I'd have felt it was doing something useful)
Anyway, enough moaning. I'd better try and set up a new bingo line. I nearly did it this time, but I could only make six letter words from the tiles I had in hand.
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Although isn't it usually knowing all those obscure two-letter words that is the essence of winning Scrabble because you can effectively turn one word into several?
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You can easily get 20 points with a lot of two or three letter words, but a bingo will normally net you at least 60 and 70 is pretty common as you can often make one cross a double-word score.