titbox scrabble

roberto la vigna · Post by **roberto la vigna** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 8:36 am

dmac wrote:
roberto la vigna wrote:176 tiles today - hand speed is quicker and am thinking ahead better but still fluffed several times.
119 is my best now... did you use the two hand method to get 176?

nope - I tried that method and found it too fiddly.

ggdr · Post by **ggdr** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 9:40 am

Using two hands does tend to obscure the screen sometimes but I'm persevering with it. Up to 143 now, and a score of 1410ish

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 10:02 am

i've plateaued at about 110. don't have the nimble ones or good enough knowledge of the 2/3 letter words. i dare say my returns from the endgame are comparatively poor because of this.

having said that, i've not seen any evidence that anyone can do it apart from those of us who are known to the board.

in other news, BESI was in the paper on saturday.

nw6 · Post by **nw6** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 5:08 pm

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 12:28 pm

Istenem wrote:in other news, BESI was in the paper on saturday.

In what way?

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 12:43 pm

he wasn't wearing his SWP hat, it was an article about wordgames.

cool · Post by **cool** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 11:20 pm

I contacted the guy who produces the column to tell him about besi trysts on the scrabble game and to tell him that scrabble in its present format is no good. somewhat unsurprisingly he didnt e-mail me in return!

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 11:41 pm

scrabble on the itbox is what it is. not very good. but you can't make a sow's ear from a turd; just take the free money while you can.

but i doubt the journalist has any input on the shaun wright-phillips.

BESI is very good at scrabble, i'm not really debbie magee.

Northern Monkey · Post by **Northern Monkey** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 8:42 am

cool wrote:I contacted the guy who produces the column to tell him about besi trysts on the scrabble game and to tell him that scrabble in its present format is no good. somewhat unsurprisingly he didnt e-mail me in return!

Which paper?

roberto la vigna · Post by **roberto la vigna** » Sat Feb 09, 2008 9:10 pm

The guy who writes that column knows about the itbox scrabble game.

In fact, all the keen scrabblers know about it now.

182 tiles today - just over 1 a second - it's coming!

Also found the smaller Word Cube and got 7660.

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 12:44 am

i was in reading earlier. the 'spoons was impossible thanks to VB/BESI's 50+ 100+s but i did find a pub which wanted 54 tiles played. i hit a PB of £14.75 there which is about double what i'm getting in London.

but i was impressed with BESI's WU words in that place by the river. knowing that SEAROBIN is a word is impressive; it scores few points but is more impressive than yet another QUIZZING

beautiful town Reading, i might move there. much nicer than yucksbridge.

cool · Post by **cool** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 9:49 am

knowing its a word go and read a copy of a broadsheet when you will find lots of long and beautiful words. Knowing what it means is a different matter (without resorting to a dictionary !)and why not go the whole hog and drop it into everyday conversation.(from sun reader)

ggdr · Post by **ggdr** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 2:20 pm

If you fancy a real challenge, the Goose at Wood Green has a fault on Scrabble so that your tiles are blacked out, and you can only find out what letters you have when you randomly touch one of them and then place it on screen. This made long word construction rather difficult. Anyway: highest scoring word was JA, top score 194.

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 3:17 pm

Istenem wrote:but i was impressed with BESI's WU words in that place by the river. knowing that SEAROBIN is a word is impressive]

That sounds like The Outlook where I was miffed recently to find that my enormous 1600+ clearance didn't even make the Top 10.

Istenem wrote:beautiful town Reading, i might move there.

Er, are you sure?!