Un-Scrabulous?
Posted on March 12, 2008
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Undoubtedly Scrabulous is perhaps the best reason to stick around on Facebook (some might suggest only?) - I’ve been thoroughly enjoying it, with my 1-1 record at the moment.
However judging from the number of 1300+ and 1400+ rated players I appear to know I seem to have been unwittingly living amongst a long-lost sect of Mensa all these years (no offense to all my friends, really, this discovery is quite serendipitous… look it up).
I don’t want to cast aspersions but I suspect some people might be using unsavoury means to dominate their games which, alas, simply reduces it down to a machine-on-machine contest based on luck with us hairless monkeys handling the grunt work.
So if you’re really curious about what Scrabble ranking you’re at check out the most excellent Scrabble by Gamehouse. This is the officially-sanctioned-by-Hasbro downloadable version and currently it gives me an Elo rating of 1044, solidly “amateur”.
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ha ha… well said. Until I played with you, I had no idea how many words *not* in the Scrabble dictionary could get through… gringeie? I mean, come on.
So, giving all those geniuses (genii? lol) the benefit of the doubt, I think it’s possible the inflated scores are due to improper words making it through. I’ve been playing for a few months now and I just assumed Scrabulous was always right.
My sister-in-law turned me onto a FB new game last night called Scramble - a timed word game not unlike Boggle. I can’t imagine how one could cheat there and it’s totally fun too. A new addiction… sigh.