titbox scrabble

fotherz · Post by **fotherz** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 7:51 am

You're supposed to be the twelfth man!

Quality.

nw6 · Post by **nw6** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 7:53 am

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 10:40 am

not at all DMAC. i wouldn't bother with 'spoonses but there are plenty of shitboxes which haven't been done.
i'm getting around to the ones near me (slowly) and only one in five is on the mean endgame.

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 11:16 am

Feel free to have your pick of all those in our home manor, DMAC - I'm absolutely useless at this and not prepared to get better at £1 a try, particularly when there are five or six bankers on a virgin ItBox at the moment (I made my best ever haul off one ItBox on Saturday, although I had to share it with the player I was with).

ggdr · Post by **ggdr** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 12:17 pm

grecian wrote:Feel free to have your pick of all those in our home manor, DMAC

Oi! In fairness as I quite enjoy this one you'll find most machines within a lunchtime's walk in the Fleet Street area to be fairly tough, but as far as I can tell plenty of people are playing it, with very few being able to reach an endgame. For instance, despite Hornby beating me to a machine (and I assume making a tidy profit in the endgame), I was still able to extract £9 four days later.

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 12:40 pm

ggdr wrote:
grecian wrote:Feel free to have your pick of all those in our home manor, DMAC
Oi! In fairness as I quite enjoy this one you'll find most machines within a lunchtime's walk in the Fleet Street area to be fairly tough, but as far as I can tell plenty of people are playing it, with very few being able to reach an endgame. For instance, despite Hornby beating me to a machine (and I assume making a tidy profit in the endgame), I was still able to extract £9 four days later.

Sorry GGDR, by "our home manor" I meant the NW6 area, where I know DMAC also resides! DMAC, keep off the Fleet Street area - it's GGDR's!

ggdr · Post by **ggdr** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 1:51 pm

May as well put forward my 1342 and 129 tiles as new PBs after the lunchtime play. On a pub just off Fleet Street...

Drpepper · Post by **Drpepper** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 2:43 pm

"Minge" LOL!!

WaterGate · Post by **WaterGate** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 7:33 am

You said 'minge'!

Properpro · Post by **Properpro** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 8:01 am

[quote="grecian"]Sorry GGDR, by "our home manor" I meant the NW6 area, where I know DMAC also resides! DMAC, keep off the Fleet Street area - it's GGDR's! ]

I shall be running NW6 past the Cloud and having a look while at the show. I'm fascinated to know how much a poor 'pro'vincial boy can make on somebody elses 'manor'.

Money goes in, let's see how much really comes out.

Northern Monkey · Post by **Northern Monkey** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 8:20 am

ggdr wrote:
grecian wrote:Feel free to have your pick of all those in our home manor, DMAC
Oi! In fairness as I quite enjoy this one you'll find most machines within a lunchtime's walk in the Fleet Street area to be fairly tough, but as far as I can tell plenty of people are playing it, with very few being able to reach an endgame. For instance, despite Hornby beating me to a machine (and I assume making a tidy profit in the endgame), I was still able to extract £9 four days later.

Probably not as tidy as you'd think- I have only played this a handful of times and am clearly missing something strategy wise.

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With the amounts/ time available in the end game I am struggling to see how some of the returns quoted are attained even given others' superior skills at word games.

For the record on the machine you mention I only won about £8 so probably split the initial pot

ggdr · Post by **ggdr** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 11:22 am

£8 off £1 is a tidy profit in the most people's books. £10.75 is my best.

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 10:13 am

with all the hullabaloo about scrabulous in the news, i wonder how much LL paid for the licence of this. given that scoring is secondary to using the tiles, it strikes me that the game on the titbox needn't have any affiliation, the game bears no more similarity to scrabble than it does to one of those american crosswords. yes, the endgame is similar with power squares but it wouldn't take a genius to create a scrabble or no scrabble endgame like everything else has got.

get a 9x9 grid, put 7 letters in your hand (or maybe 8 or 6 if you are a bit worried that mattel/hasbro are going to be litigious) and mess around with irresponsible 2 and 3 letter words for a while. if you do enough then you are the champion of the world. if they had done it this way they would have been able to cheat too by giving you a selection like VVVVVVV.

or is there something up a sleeve in HQ about making scoring relevant?

cool · Post by **cool** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 10:34 am

the actual board game scrabble is in my & (others opinion on the forum) rubbish as its just a glorified memory game. Strategy must come into it to an extent but 'all 'one has to is memorize long lists of words without having the faintest idea what they mean.I remember when I had a rare game of word up (similar to scrabble but more skilful) a publican came over and gave me a two letter word. I said thats amazing what does it mean. He said I dont know but it fits in!I always thought scrabble should be adapted.There should be a challenge if you dont know what the word means you should forfeit the points.

Matt Vinyl · Post by **Matt Vinyl** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 10:43 am

words

Cool: Whilst I agree to some extent, surely 'for the majority of players', the technique that needs to be worked on to win, is to be able to see the words you can create from your 7 (and those already played)? I realise that memorising lists of hundreds (thousands) of words would be useful, but if you cannot 'realise' that one of those words is in front of you, you will not do well?

I'm not saying I'm a scrabble merchant, but play it once or twice a week with a pal (in the pub, rather sadly!) and although my internal word bank is indeed increasing, the ability to squeeze those words out of a jumble in front of me has greatly improved - leading to many wins, and in turn, free pints!

OT: Those 'word wheels' in various newspapers; I can usually spot the 9 letter word within ten seconds - although I struggle with Countdown conundrums? Maybe the random and/or circular layout of the letters helps here?

Back on topic: What's all the news about Scrabulous? I could google, but better get on with some work now...