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Scrabble’s New Official Word List Contains Dozens of Stunning Additions. Elite Players Are Mortified. (slate.com)

submitted 11 months ago by Stern to c/mildlyinteresting

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[–] TheBananaKing 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The only good way to play scrabble is by adding the rule that you must play the funniest word you can make.

[–] Breezy 3 points 11 months ago

I have had the most fun when i used to play with categories for double points. Having to explain why such and such belongs is half the fun.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I saw a YouTube video once where they could only use dirty/rude words. https://youtu.be/_PRlIZCI6uE?si=2ZnK2wfc7Vzz4rHb

Makes the game painfully difficult and required lots of passing. Still more exciting than legit scrabble, though. I hate the game and even more so because I was forced to play it by family (for whom scrabble is apparently the most fun board game they know) far more times than I'd like.

[–] TheBananaKing 2 points 11 months ago

Ah, see, my family, now...

They'd refuse to let you play a word, on the grounds that you could surely get a better one, here give me your letters a minute.

Or they wouldn't let you play a word because it didn't 'open up the board', whatever the fuck that means.

I rapidly learned to not play with them.