Last night's Scrabble game, played with a neighbour. A close game, and together the three of us scored 748, which is pretty good. However I particularly liked the two blocks of 3x3 letters, and the progression of SEX to SEXY to SEXY and YU …!
Well done to Martha: 3 times in the same game she played all 7 tiles in a turn (a 'bingo'), scoring an extra 50 points each time. Can you spot them? That's PEATIER, STEROLS and ERASION. Between us we scored 711 points, which we think is a new reco...
It's hard to find 2-player games. So when we saw Phil and Rachel last time, we got their recommendations, which included Hive. We've not player it much yet, but it's good so far ...
During a great evening seeing Phil and Rachel again (thanks, guys!), it wouldn't have been right if we'd not played a game. Their suggestion this time was Aquarius, and so we played 5 hands. It has simple instructions, and enough variation within ...
We do enjoy playing Scrabble, and normally take a travel set away with us. But the games are long, and we weren't sure whether we'd have the concentration for it. So I was thinking of alternatives, and remembered playing Racing Demons with Rachel ...
I found lots of old Scrabble scores in the box, and had a look through them. Our last joint best score was 701, which we got 4.5 years ago, helped by a bingo each (RESIGNED and RIOTINGS). A few days ago we played and got 720, also including two bi...