The Zany Game in Which I Won’t Name Names
We had one board, two Official Scrabble Dictionaries and three free look-ups. “Do you want the new or older one,” he asked one of the players who wanted to look up a word, “the one with the dirty words in it or the cleaned up one?” He had the 3rd edition that had swear words in it, and I had the 4th edition, in which even the word “fart” was struck from the content.
I dropped a letter on the floor (more than once), and we had to get the brewery bartender to get us a flashlight to find it. My fellow-players might have suspected that I was dropping letters on purpose because I had all vowels! But I wouldn’t ruin all future games because of a missing letter.
Needless to say, I didn’t win, but I enjoyed the company and my IPA. On the way out, I overheard a woman talking about the government shutdown. I was happy to hear that she knew what she was talking about and gave her a thumbs up as I passed, taking one hand of the big deluxe game box. I dropped it. We had a good laugh, and I didn’t even curse, or say any of those words in his 3rd edition Official Scrabble Dictionary. But one may have ended up on the board. / Our World Tuesday
January 21st, 2019 1:42 pm
Oh use the edition with those words in it! By all means. What a fun way to spend a winter afternoon. I sometimes play both Scrabble and Words With Friends on line and now wonder if I could actually still play Scrabble in Real Life. (On line, you can try different combinations and the dictionary lookup happens automatically). Of course, the downside is that while I could drink an IPA while playing, I miss meeting all those lovely people!
January 21st, 2019 4:37 pm
That’s an excellent way to spend an evening.
January 21st, 2019 5:06 pm
I LOVE SCRABBLE!!
January 21st, 2019 6:51 pm
You’ve got me wanting to get friends together and play Scrabble. 🙂
January 22nd, 2019 1:54 am
Such FUN!!