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...
Continuing our holiday, but now at home, we played another game of Scrabble. Martha started with a bingo (STRIPEs) and later I played MUSETTE so we were one all. No other plays were that great, but still I got 379 and between us a score of 711, wh...
Our Edinburgh mini-tournament: 352-250 saw Martha handsomely beat me in the first game, despite having pretty well balanced tiles. The next day I had a more narrow 310-282 victory, also with matched tiles. Our combined average is still just on 600...