Also, "Crimespoon" Is Not A Word, BUT IT SHOULD BE

[bloodyrosemccoy]

 (Scene: AMELIA, the DUDE, and 妹 are playing Scrabble)

 

妹: Dangit, what am I supposed to do with this J?  “J-slime”? “J-vent”?

AMELIA: That only works in Rapper Scrabble. God, that’d be a bitch to play, wouldn’t it? Random P’s and J’s all over …

DUDE: Z would be worth one point!

AMELIA: “HIZZOUSE”! ANOTHER TRIPLE WORD SCORE, MUTHAFUCKA!

 

Later

 

AMELIA: “Brains”? What is this, Zombie Scrabble?

妹: It should be!

AMELIA: “Arruurgh” isn’t legal!

妹: Use it in a sentence!

DUDE: Fine! “Blarg arruurgh braaaains urgh blaaaagh.”

妹: Okay, fair enough.

 

And don’t get us started on Comic Book Scrabble.  (“‘THWP?” “It’s the sound of a shuriken being thrown, okay?”)

 

What are your favorite versions of Scrabble?

Comments

[luinmir.livejournal.com]

Cthulhu Scrabble!

If your sanity gets low enough, you can make up words. It's really, quite fun.

[fenmere.livejournal.com]

I've been trying to come up with acceptable rules for nonsense scrabble. There's the most important rule, of course:

1. The word cannot be found in any nearby dictionary(including any foreign language ones present and/or the Internet dictionaries).

But it may need refinement. Such as a rule for pronunciation. But that gets difficult.

The truly hard part, though, is finding someone to play it with me!

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I've got a good judge for that game: the password strength assessors on the UO e-mail server. You had to WORK to make a password it'd accept: "'Gzplxtz' is a word that has some letters in common with an old Tibetan word for a mud-covered hen. Somebody might guess it! Pick another."

[placetohide.livejournal.com]

Everything I thought of for my UO e-mail password was too close to a real word to please the server... so I had to resort to using pokemon terminology for my password.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

BAHAHA.

I started writing them in Leet. Finally, a use for it!

[redheaded-itch.livejournal.com]

Definitely Snowcake's version of Comic Book Scrabble.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Aww, that's so cute! (And FANSPAZ at Alan Rickman AND Sigourney Weaver in the same place!)

[queenlyzard.livejournal.com]

...You've seen "Galaxy Quest," right?

What is this "snowcake" thing? I'm intrigued.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but they never really interacted in it like here. They were both orbiting Tim Allen at different degrees.

Faith, I know nothing of Snowcake except what I see here.

[ruisseau.livejournal.com]

Dirty word Scrabble, double points for words that you can convince everyone else are dirty. :)

[westrider.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I like that version. I can make anything sound dirty ;)

[queenlyzard.livejournal.com]

*brain asplodes* at your icon.

[westrider.livejournal.com]

Ain't it awesome? I just stole it from somewhere, so feel free to continue the pattern ;)

[biomekanic.livejournal.com]

An ex learned it is Not Wise to let Bio use proper names from fiction - "Yogsothoth is not a word!"
*Cracks knuckles and breaks out his collected works of H.P. Lovecraft"

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

Technically you're not supposed to use proper names at all. Or foreign words. The Official Scrabble Dictionary violates these rules with impunity, however.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I was surprised to learn that people actually pay attention to the rules. My family habitually plays fast and loose.

But then, they're playing with a descriptive linguist, who regards language as fast and loose anyway. It really pissed off my pompous rule-abiding lawyer uncle ...

[pixel39.livejournal.com]

When I get around to having the Consort run the letter frequencies and then the consequent tile-altering, I'll have Old English Scrabble...

Other than that, well, we own the 20-volume OED, so Scrabble in our house has its very own degree of interesting.

"Is that a word?" "Don't know, let's check the Oracle!"

[elvenmoon.livejournal.com]

Heh. This made me chuckle ;)

[queenlyzard.livejournal.com]

Oh, but you are brilliant. I think I'll have to recommend comic book scrabble to my bf.

...Also, if "crimespoon" were a word, what would it mean?