I played a KICK ASS game of Scrabble. Highlight of the night. My friend and I were neck at neck, then I put "stoma" on a triple word score. I was about to put "steam" down, but I went for the odd word. My friend then challenged it, lost the challenge, and subsequently lost his turn. That's the great thing about scrabble. You don't have to know what a word means, you just have to know that it is a word.
I never liked the official challenge rules. I have always played that any opposing player can look up any word, and if it is incorrect, then it gets taken off and the other player goes again. The general agreement across the board is to not put down silly words that you obviously know are not real.
The official challenge rule is better. Don't challenge a word unless you know it is not a word. It benefits the players who know what are real words and not, which is part of the game.
I like the challenge rules. They put a little strategy in the game, and also award risk takers. If you go with the more obscure word instead of a more common word and the other player challenges and loses, then you've just given yourself a free turn while also increasing the other player's vocabulary. "You don't like my word? Look it up then, b****! Awww, what's the matter? Scared? Then STFU!!" Besides, it's not like we're putting KWIJOBO down or anything... The official challenge rules also speed up the game a little bit. If somebody spends five minutes putting up some dumbass word that's not in the dictionary, then he shouldn't get another five minutes to try and put something else down....
Yahtzee sucks! And, no I'm not saying that because I've never won a single game of Yahtzee in my life. There is way too much luck involved, and that rattling of the dice in the cup gets REALLY annoying after about 15 minutes or so. What's even worse is "Deluxe Yahtzee". If there is ANY game that didn't need to be "delux-ized" it is Yahtzee. So, you put in some speckly orange dice, a new cup, more score sheets, and a crappy plastic thing to roll the die on that doesn't work half the time anyways, and that justifies charging 10 extra bucks? Screw that...
In my version of the game this is taken care of by constant b****ing and complaining by anyone who has to wait. No worries.
Not if you're playing Strip Yahtzee. Please note that Refman has never sunk to the depths of strip Yahtzee, nor has anybody that he knows to the best of his knowledge. The reference to Strip Yahtzee was made for entertainment purposes only, and is not meant to mock any persons actual or fictional. Any miscontruction is largely unintentional.
Does anyone play scrabble online? OR that thing that is a lot like scrabble on yahoo! games? I love scrabble. Somebody reply, "If you love it so much why don't you marry it?"
