My name is Brandi and I am a scrabble addict!

[Brandi]

My friend Camille and I started playing scrabble last Nov. We would get together one night a week at my house. Have a glass of wine and play a game or two. For Camille this is a great break. She has 3 kids ages 3,5 and 10. And she lives two houses away so if she has a little to much wine she doesn't have to walk far.

We are now addicts! When we see eachother we are always asking "Hey got time today to play". We suck other people into our world as well.

Her husband has a huge super bowl party every year. This year we had three scrabble boards games going at once and all day long we played.

Here is the the funny thing. I never win! But I am getting better. But I never win. I even play on line! And still never win. I have been winning a few times on line but then the other player has quit on me! Loser!

I know there are much worse things I could be addicted to. It is just funny that I like something so much that i never win at.

Anyone here play? I could send you to a web site where we can play eachother. http://games.atari.com/playgames/home.jsp;jsessionid=6157843D7345D796ECE784998E7343CB.web1-10009 I normally go to the Scrabble lobby or consonant creek. My name is Nixons (have NO idea why i picked that name really) Inormally play in the morning and sometimes at night at around 8 pacific time. Come on come play with me. Let me know if anyone signs up and what your name is so i can look for you and set up a game.

See I am addict!

[mimitabby]

sounds like you need a bike ride.

[DebW]

I play Scrabble, I enjoy Scrabble, but I will not become addicted. I will not click that link and play Scrabble with strangers all over the world. I will not. I will not. I will resist. Why did you tempt me, Brandi?

[IFjane]

Why did you tempt me, Brandi?

Because she knows that if we will click THIS link to talk to cyclists all over the world about cycling, there must be some of us who will also click THAT link!

I doubt I'm allowed - vocabulary too small

[dingster1]

I am addicted too! I have the game at home and have to find out how to do the online part!!:)

[alpinerabbit]

Cool. I just registered as alpinerabbit. CU there. I almost always win against my boyfriend. I play german but I think my English is good enough to play.

It's got to do with vocabulary and the ability to see patterns... says the acting Champion in German scrabble.

[JenLeath]

Wow, I am not alone. I have been playing online since 1999. My husband won't play me anymore, I beat the snot out of him. I first started with playsite.com, then that was changed. I found the atari site, but there were too many bugs and no time limits or retribution for quitters. I play on scrabulous.com. If you just quit in the middle of a game without abortting or resigning, you get blacklisted, also there are time limits. My username is trijen. Look for me sometime.

[Offthegrid]

I love Scrabble, too, but I haven't played in a long time so I'm out of practice. I hate though if you're playing online and you suspect the other person is cheating by looking things up.

[northstar]

I love Scrabble! But I HATE it when I lose!

Before I got back into teaching, I worked at this dreadful commercial insurance brokerage. My cube neighbor hated her job too, so we stayed sane by playing online Scrabble against each other. (We were both planning to quit anyway!)

Don't have much time during the day to do so anymore. 160 middle schoolers watching everything I do during the day, and my DH to play "for real" at night!

Nice to know I'm not the only Scrabble freak here!

[HappyAnika]

My DH got me addicted. I'd never played, then we were sitting around one night and he had the itch to play, so we went to Target and bought a set. Now he kind of regrets it. As I was going through my thesis preparation and defense in grad school, playing scrabble was the only thing I could do to get my mind off of work, so I wanted to play just about every night. Now we usually just play on Fri or Sat night.

Check out "Word Freak" by Stefan Fatsis. It's an inside look at competitive scrabble players. It actually taught me a lot about strategy and improved my game, even though it's a narrative and not an instruction book.

No time to try online playing, that's the last thing I need, something else in my life sucking up my time.

[SJCzar]

My daughter and I used to play alot of Scrabble before she moved away last summer. We once got stranded at the Denver airport for an extra 4 hours. Luckily, we had Scrabble in her carry-on so we ended up playing until we ran out of squares. We had a number of people stop over and talk to us as they could see we had been there a long, long time.

I'm going to have to check out the online version someday.

[Brandi]

I play Scrabble, I enjoy Scrabble, but I will not become addicted. I will not click that link and play Scrabble with strangers all over the world. I will not. I will not. I will resist. Why did you tempt me, Brandi?
He he he. My plan is working.

[Brandi]

sounds like you need a bike ride.
Oh but I ride every day!

[Duck on Wheels]

OK. I'm game. I'm registered as DocDuck and have already lost my first game and been dumped twice by folks who simply left. But now I'm ahead by a few points and waiting for opponent to make next move. Has (s)he left the game? It's very quiet.

[Brandi]

Cool. I just registered as alpinerabbit. CU there. I almost always win against my boyfriend. I play german but I think my English is good enough to play.

It's got to do with vocabulary and the ability to see patterns... says the acting Champion in German scrabble.
Just so you knowthe site can be buggy.

[Brandi]

OK. I'm game. I'm registered as DocDuck and have already lost my first game and been dumped twice by folks who simply left. But now I'm ahead by a few points and waiting for opponent to make next move. Has (s)he left the game? It's very quiet.
Yea there are alot of people who will dump you. i always ask for no dumping please. i will go right now and see if i can find you. Remember I am nixons.

[Brandi]

OK. I'm game. I'm registered as DocDuck and have already lost my first game and been dumped twice by folks who simply left. But now I'm ahead by a few points and waiting for opponent to make next move. Has (s)he left the game? It's very quiet.
I will look for you in the scrabble lobby or con creek.

[Duck on Wheels]

Just so you knowthe site can be buggy.

Yeah. Suddenly it goes reeeeeaaaaallly sloooooow.
Also, some of these players are super-competitive. As in know the official scrabble word lists by heart. There are "words" on the list that don't exist, and words that do but aren't on the list. I just had a game with somebody named something-granny who didn't respond when I offered not to challenge her word (not in my unabridged) if she'd accept another (quite common but not on the scrabble list) which would open up the rest of the board for us (we'd blocked ourselves out from about half). She didn't respond until I put down my word ... then she challenged it. Geez! Not very sociable! She was gonna win anyway. She was like 100 points ahead with only 2 tiles left.

Oh well. I just won't play with her again.

[Brandi]

I think I am going to go to the scrabulous site for a while. For some reason the other site, the atari site really messes with my computer. http://www.scrabulous.com/index.php you can look for me there. my name there is branwine. You can have timed games but you can set it up for as much time as you want.

[Mr. Bloom]

You play with NO Board.

You lay out all pieces in the center of your group. Everyone draws seven letters and waits.

You turn them over at the same time and make an individual puzzle, just your own, always keeping seven letters in your queue. So, if you start with seven and lay out a four letter word, you then draw four more and so on.

All the players are doing this simultaneously - making their own puzzles.

When someone draws the last letter, they announce it to the group, but everyone continues until the first person uses all their letters in their puzzle. They announce they're complete and then everyone else stops immediately.

The winner then has to read out all the words. If someone challenges a word, everything comes off until valid words (so if it's in the middle of the puzzle, it's a serious problem) and everyone's play continues until someone goes out.

You score it using the numbers on the tiles. If a letter is used twice (vertically and horizontally), then it counts twice. Simple. The person who goes out gets a fifty point bonus for the round...the others get points off for the unplayed letters.

This is scrabble with a rapid heart rate. Try it, you'll love it!

[Brandi]

I just came from a camping trip that would have been fun!