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08-12-2005, 12:28
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Re: Old Games ..Monopoly....Scrabble...etc
I suppose that every Scrabble player must have wondered at one time or another what is the highest score made with just one word?
I was no different and spent many hours trying all sorts of combinations to determine a result. I have found that it is possible to score 1,022 points with one word.
Before anyone goes wow! I have to confess that it was set up. What I mean is that I worked backwards and placed tiles on the board to make up words to my advantage. For instance I set things up so that during the game I placed my seven tiles to add to the already placed eight letters to form a 15 letter word across the top which just happened to have the three treble word squares and the two double letter squares empty for me to put my tiles into. Thus I got the treble word three times as well as the 50 points bonus for being a smart ass. The word was PSYCHOTHERAPIST.
O.K. just to prove the point this is what happened:-
I arranged to draw the following letters in this order:-
XUSEALT EBLREM HOJAMOR EE ABOVDWN ERIN SPS YC HP T
SEXUAL across the board with the "E" on the centre square.
TEBLREM to meet up with the "S" to make TREMBLES
HO to meet the "T" in TREMBLES to make HOT
JAMOREE across TREMBLES to make JAMBOREE
ABOV to meet the last "E" of JAMBOREE to make ABOVE
DWN across ABOVE to make DOWN
ER to meet the "A" of ABOVE to make ERA
IN to meet the "N" of DOWN to make INN
S to meet the "I" of INN to make IS
PSYCHPT in the 7 empty spaces in the top row to make
PSYCHOTHERAPIST
P=3, S=1, Y=4, C=3x2, H=4, O=1, T=1, H=4, E=1, R=1, A=1,
P=3x2, I=1, S=1, T=1 which all adds up to 36.
Triple word score 3 times is 36 x 3 x 3 x 3 = 972 + 50 = 1022
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08-12-2005, 12:33
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Re: Old Games ..Monopoly....Scrabble...etc
I like monopoly though I am also rather partial to Chess and Cluedo!
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08-12-2005, 16:06
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Re: Old Games ..Monopoly....Scrabble...etc
lol @ jambutty !
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08-12-2005, 18:41
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Re: Old Games ..Monopoly....Scrabble...etc
HATE, HATE, HATE MONOPOLY with a vengeance, it's a game that once you are on the losing side, landing on the squares that other people have .. no way of ever retrieving the situation, whilst the estate holders gloat over your misery of you handing out your last available funds.
Slow boring death. Only game I have ever thrown my toys out of the pram and gone against the standards I like to think have given my children in being a good sport ..... grrrrrrrrrr just thinking about it.
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08-12-2005, 18:56
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Re: Old Games ..Monopoly....Scrabble...etc
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Originally Posted by katex
HATE, HATE, HATE MONOPOLY with a vengeance, it's a game that once you are on the losing side, landing on the squares that other people have .. no way of ever retrieving the situation, whilst the estate holders gloat over your misery of you handing out your last available funds.
Slow boring death. Only game I have ever thrown my toys out of the pram and gone against the standards I like to think have given my children in being a good sport ..... grrrrrrrrrr just thinking about it.
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so i take it you're not interested in janets monopoly set in excellent condition i might add!!. go on buy it ,even if it is only to destroy it...........
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08-12-2005, 19:21
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Re: Old Games ..Monopoly....Scrabble...etc
lol! Love love love monopoly but I'm usually one of them gloating estate holders with hotels on Park Lane and Mayfair
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08-12-2005, 20:07
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Re: Old Games ..Monopoly....Scrabble...etc
What a surprise, Tinks the control freak!
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08-12-2005, 22:55
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Re: Old Games ..Monopoly....Scrabble...etc
I like both scrabble and monopoly. I also like chess though I was once beaten in 3 moves, another favourite of mine is draughts.
Gayle remind us a bit nearer the time about your games day as I will definitely come along to that.
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09-12-2005, 02:04
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I am Banned
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Re: Old Games ..Monopoly....Scrabble...etc
strip tiddly winks is good fun especialy if you scrap the tiddly and sick to winks and strip
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09-12-2005, 09:22
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Re: Old Games ..Monopoly....Scrabble...etc
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strip tiddly winks is good fun especialy if you scrap the tiddly and sick to winks and strip
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No, don't lose the tiddly, if you increase the tiddly it tends to lead to the winks and then the strip!
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09-12-2005, 11:24
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Re: Old Games ..Monopoly....Scrabble...etc
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Originally Posted by jambutty
I suppose that every Scrabble player must have wondered at one time or another what is the highest score made with just one word?
I was no different and spent many hours trying all sorts of combinations to determine a result. I have found that it is possible to score 1,022 points with one word.
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I laugh at your 1022, heres 1830!
http://www.fun-with-words.com/scrabble.html
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09-12-2005, 20:06
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Re: Old Games ..Monopoly....Scrabble...etc
All I can say is Wow!
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17-12-2005, 01:12
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Re: Old Games ..Monopoly....Scrabble...etc
What you need is make-your-own-opoly, you need a pc and printer though. You print the labels for the board, utilities, road names etc, and for the box. I'm doing mine with Atherstone street names, but you could use accy's.
Also that here and now edition is in WHSmith, I saw it when I bought the above version at the trafford centre on wednesday.
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23-12-2005, 18:32
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Re: Old Games ..Monopoly....Scrabble...etc
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Originally Posted by Madhatter
What you need is make-your-own-opoly, you need a pc and printer though. You print the labels for the board, utilities, road names etc, and for the box. I'm doing mine with Atherstone street names, but you could use accy's.
Also that here and now edition is in WHSmith, I saw it when I bought the above version at the trafford centre on wednesday.
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Yes its £20 from WHS.
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31-01-2006, 12:33
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Re: Old Games ..Monopoly....Scrabble...etc
I had some games purchased in the 1950's which I never knew anyone else to have. There was a board game called "Oscar" which was billed on the box as "A film star's rise to fame." There was also a picture of, a young and beautiful, Liz Taylor on the box.
I also had two little known card games. One was called "I commit" and was a crime and detection game. The other was called "Contraband" and was a smuggling game.
Anyone heard of these or maybe also had them around that time?
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