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[Brother Adam]

[quote name='homeschoolmom' date='31 May 2010 - 02:43 PM' timestamp='1275327835' post='2121251']
See now maybe I have my facts reversed. Or... maybe I haven't mentioned that Jennie's planning to play "t-r-i-p-l-e-t-s" on her next turn... and take the 50 point bonus for using all of her letters.
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[Laudate_Dominum]

peace and long life.

[MIKolbe]

i have never played scrabble.



you just make words with letters?

[jeffpugh]

[quote name='Jesus_lol' date='31 May 2010 - 12:44 PM' timestamp='1275324248' post='2121212']
there are many much more exciting versions of scrabble for you to try!!

[img]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7ZqoNO5S4NY/S7IMTquJ0bI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/nJFy-XCEWYA/s1600/extreme-scrabble-01.jpg[/img]
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Dude, that reminds me of the XKCD moment where two guys set up a chessboard for the camera moment on a roller coaster. So while everyone is screaming their heads off, the two guys are rapt in a fake chess game (the pieces are glued down, of course). Epic win.


Btw, I laughed so hard at the scrabble stuff.

[zunshynn]

[quote name='MIkolbe' date='31 May 2010 - 12:03 PM' timestamp='1275329003' post='2121269']
i have never played scrabble.



you just make words with letters?
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yeah... but in a way that makes like a crossword puzzle, so you make words using letters and words that have already been made.

Although the version they're talking about appears to make babies with words. I haven't played that one.

[IgnatiusofLoyola]

[quote name='MIkolbe' date='31 May 2010 - 01:03 PM' timestamp='1275329003' post='2121269']
i have never played scrabble.

[img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/mellow.gif[/img]

you just make words with letters?
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[quote name='zunshynn' date='31 May 2010 - 01:09 PM' timestamp='1275329384' post='2121275']
yeah... but in a way that makes like a crossword puzzle, so you make words using letters and words that have already been made.

Although the version they're talking about appears to make babies with words. I haven't played that one.
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MIKolbe--You've NEVER played Scrabble? (The celibate version, not the version that makes babies.) Did you spend your childhood locked in a cage? Are you secretly illiterate, and someone else is typing for you? Peyton is a little young for Scrabble (although they may have a kid's version), but once she gets a little older, it's a great way to increase her (and your) vocabulary, well, at least for obscure words that will give you more points.

Essentially, you draw seven letters from a pile. Each letter has a different point value. Commonly-used letters are only 1 point. Letters like Q, X, and Z have more points. The board is made up of small squares, the size of a Scrabble piece. Some of the squares on the the board have spaces that either double/triple the score of the letter on that square, or double/triple the score for the word. To start the game, the first player constructs a word using as many of his/her seven letters as possible, then adds up the points and draws for more letters from the pile to make up for the ones they've used. Then, the second person must construct a word using his/her seven letters. The word must intersects the first person's word at at least one point.

As ZZ said, it's like creating a crossword puzzle. Scrabble can get very hardcore (even the celibate kind). For example, there are tournaments with prize money. Besides increasing their vocabulary, Scrabble is good for kids because it gets them used to using a dictionary. If thether player creates a word that you don't think is a real word, you can challenge it by looking it up in a dictionary.

I wouldn't make the joke about playing "Scrabble=making babies" in front of Peyton. When you bring her home her first Scrabble game, she might get confused.

ZZ--There is a Catholic version of Scrabble that is only for married couples. The priest gives it to you on your wedding day, disguised as a wedding present, which is why you may not have heard of it. In the old days, babies came from storks and under cabbages. Post-Vatican II, Scrabble replaced the older traditions.

Edited May 31, 2010 by IgnatiusofLoyola

[MIKolbe]

I probably would not be any good. I am HORRIBLE at those word jumble games. hot stuff challenged me on FB and I scored so low he thought I was playing around. I told him I was, then I skipped dinner and cried myself to sleep that night.

true story.

[Nihil Obstat]

I'm not very good at Scrabble. I always kinda assumed I'd naturally be at least a bit decent, considering the amount I read and write, but I'm actually pretty bad.

[IgnatiusofLoyola]

[quote name='MIkolbe' date='31 May 2010 - 01:37 PM' timestamp='1275331042' post='2121309']
I probably would not be any good. I am HORRIBLE at those word jumble games. hot stuff challenged me on FB and I scored so low he thought I was playing around. I told him I was, then I skipped dinner and cried myself to sleep that night.

true story.
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That's good that you are bad at these kind of games. That means that when she gets a little older, you can play Scrabble with Peyton, and you won't have to "let" her win.

I'm not bad at Scrabble, but not outstanding. It takes practice, and you need a mind that works a certain way. Also, it takes a lot of thinking, which, to me, seems too much like work to be truly fun. Give me a killer game of "Candyland" or "Chutes and Ladders" and I rock!

Edited May 31, 2010 by IgnatiusofLoyola

[homeschoolmom]

[quote name='IgnatiusofLoyola' date='31 May 2010 - 02:47 PM' timestamp='1275331662' post='2121325'] Give me a killer game of "Candyland" or "Chutes and Ladders" and I rock!
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You rock at games of complete chance?

[zunshynn]

[quote name='homeschoolmom' date='31 May 2010 - 12:49 PM' timestamp='1275331783' post='2121326']
You rock at games of complete chance?
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Candyland is not a game of complete chance. That's like saying poker is a game of chance. If you play seriously it's not really a game of chance at all.

With that said I have not played Candyland seriously in over ten years.

[IgnatiusofLoyola]

[quote name='Nihil Obstat' date='31 May 2010 - 01:44 PM' timestamp='1275331451' post='2121319']
I'm not very good at Scrabble. I always kinda assumed I'd naturally be at least a bit decent, considering the amount I read and write, but I'm actually pretty bad. [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/P.gif[/img]
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I'm surprised. Since you like to play games, and you have a large vocabulary, I'd have expected you to be good at Scrabble. But it DOES require your mind to work a certain way. You could probably learn to be very good at it, but to me, I don't find Scrabble enough much fun that it would be worth the bother to learn to be good at it.

However, you could play some specialized version of Scrabble, such as "Catholic theology" Scrabble, where every word must be related to Catholic theology in some way. I wouldn't necessarily play it with Rexi, or Apo, or L_D, or Raphael, or CatherineM (please forgive me to anyone whose name I accidentally left off), but you'd still beat the average person.

[Nihil Obstat]

I am killer at Guess Who though. Also Settlers of Catan. I could go pro in Settlers of Catan.

[MIKolbe]

i have never been beaten at monopoly. ever.

[IgnatiusofLoyola]

[quote name='homeschoolmom' date='31 May 2010 - 01:49 PM' timestamp='1275331783' post='2121326']
You rock at games of complete chance?
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With "Candyland" and "Chutes and Ladders," it's not the end result of the game, but the finesse and style you show when playing.

Actually, my sister and I got into a big moral argument about Candyland. My niece would get very upset when she picked a card that made her go backwards. My sister would let her cheat. Since I had no advantage over my niece, I thought that we should play by the rules. (My niece was five or six at the time--if she'd been two or three, I would have let her play any way she wanted.)

OT--Once, when my niece was almost two, my ex and I, took my sister, BIL, and niece to a funky indoor miniature golf course in downtown Chicago. (The indoor course sadly no longer exists, but I hope someone saved it so it could be reconstructed later somewhere else.)

My niece had her own version of miniature golf, which included picking up the ball, and putting it in the hole if the ball was only inches away. We four adults were in stitches the whole time. It was the strangest, yet the most spontaneous and fun miniature golf game I have ever played. My niece's "rules" had a certain logic, but it was not adult logic. The only problem was when my niece would go "help" other people who were trying to play seriously. It helped a lot that she was cute.

Edited May 31, 2010 by IgnatiusofLoyola