Scrabble .. anybody ?

by **Mona Lisa Smile** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 3:08 pm

Do we have any groups/clubs out here (in Hyd) that organise/conduct competitions in Scrabble (or even play it for fun)?

by **Portuguese Man-Of-War** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 3:48 pm

The Nizam Club once held an All-India Annual Scrabble Tournament, 2-3 years back. I think they should be a good bet to start enquiring...

by **azazel** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 9:57 pm

Interesting..

by **CtrlAltDel** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 11:11 am

reminded me of childhood

i was hooked onto scrabble in my childhood and even now tempted to try a game whenever i see a board.

here, i've seen a scrabble board at some coffee shop...forgotten which one...wanted to play a game but no one was ready

by **Lady with the Lamp** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 11:19 pm

You can play Scrabble at Barista over coffee. Yeah thats a game thats interesting. Your vocab improves and its good timepass.

by **Tango** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 9:14 am

all it takes is for a few more to express interest - and bingo - we've got a small scrabble enthusiasts group started! barista has a board - so all you need is a way for folks to hook up to play!

by **asli_badmash** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 10:42 am

Reminds me of my childhood...

I am not great at it, but I remember some of the best times I have had with friends was while playing scrabble... The petty fights... People inventing words.. It was fun.

Let me know if any of you guys are getting togather. I am in...

~badmash~

by **JustaLittleUnwell** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 11:00 am

Yahoo Games has its online equivalent called Literati. Jus need a Yahoo ID and a steady net connection (one that doesnt disconnect for a few hours) and you're all set to play Scrabble / Literati with anyone in any corner of the world. Howz that for doing it from the comfort of your desktop?

Regarding my personal experience with Literati, i've lost all the matches that i've played so far with my online pals. I must be too dumb :(

by **Portuguese Man-Of-War** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 8:56 pm

I used to be a major scrabble freak as a kid for about 2 months, during which period I learnt whether or not a word existed depended just upon how desperate you were at that point. Yahoo! however refuses to take "Yes" for an answer, unlike my kid sister.

by **CtrlAltDel** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 9:58 pm

Portuguese Man-Of-War wrote:...whether or not a word existed depended just upon how desperate you were at that point...

i know wat u mean! i used to be at my creative best, coining new words and insisting they exist! i usually had my way since i was considered to be 'good' in English...

JustaLittleUnwell wrote:...Yahoo Games has its online equivalent called Literati...

at the Yahoo games site i usually play TextTwist. i think this wud help a lot in scrabble since in TextTwist we have to extract as many words as permitted from a given set of letters..in a limited timeframe. try it out...its very interesting.

the url: http://games.yahoo.com/games/downloads/tx.html

asli_badmash wrote:...Let me know if any of you guys are getting togather. I am in...

count me in too...this is a good idea...a scrabble meet! venue: Barista!

how many r game for this???

by **Mona Lisa Smile** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 12:05 pm

Hey ppl you could count me too.

Yes the game was real fun as kids and still is.

Text Twist is also pretty good esp for the like who are good at anagrams.

I have checked out Literati but there was this game a few years back called Yahoo Word Racer. I was hopelessly addicted to that one. It had a speed factor also. Wonder if its still there ?

by **Mona Lisa Smile** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 12:11 pm

Correction: I have not checked out Literati .....

by lg » Mon Mar 22, 2004 1:47 pm

the topic of scrabble came up a few weeks/months bac in the discussion boards, if i remember right....barista may work out but is there any way one cud do this more regularly?? maybe once a week or once in two weeks? coz i find my english deteriorating by the day & i was never too good with spellings...wud help if it does work out...any ideas ppl????

by **Portuguese Man-Of-War** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 2:57 pm

lg wrote:barista may work out but is there any way one cud do this more regularly?? maybe once a week or once in two weeks? coz i find my english deteriorating by the day & i was never too good with spellings...wud help if it does work out...any ideas ppl????

Yes, I agree - your English is indeed bad

. You really should have edited that sentence on the invitation card...

by **CtrlAltDel** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 10:35 pm

lg wrote:...but is there any way one cud do this more regularly?? maybe once a week or once in two weeks?

well...never thot scrabble wud have so many fans among the FullHyd community....we have to work on a Scrabble meet at Barista at the earliest! lets see how many more express interest in the coming few days!

by **Sri** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 10:26 am

hey guys !!!

thats a good idea !!! count me in on the scrabble.. there has been times when i was addicted to literatti in yahoo !!! i dont mind getting addicted again ;-)

)

Sri !!!

by **Portuguese Man-Of-War** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 11:30 am

Count me in, too! But can someone fix a date?

by **azazel** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 12:42 pm

Interested :twisted:

by **Mona Lisa Smile** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 2:13 pm

Barista is def a nice place for a meet but there are only two Scrabble boards. Besides some of these game boards have real old tiles you prolly cant differentiate from an E and an F or a P from a B ...

Not that these are major bottlenecks for those who have a zest for the game ... of course suggestions are always welcome.

by lg » Wed Mar 24, 2004 8:54 am

count me in as well....

by **CtrlAltDel** » Wed Mar 24, 2004 10:31 am

good! the response has been encouraging...lets wait one more week and meet the next weekend at Barista...scabble or not...it'll be a good chance to see the real persons behind the avatars...!

by **Mona Lisa Smile** » Wed Mar 24, 2004 2:41 pm

Sure the more the merrier! (well not always i guess)

Anyways just off the topic... there was some plan of the second FH meet sometime in April .. any plans etc fixed on that ??

by **CtrlAltDel** » Wed Mar 24, 2004 5:28 pm

Mona Lisa Smile wrote:there was some plan of the second FH meet sometime in April .. any plans etc fixed on that ??

hey...even i was wondering abt that...moderator-bhai...u said something abt a grand convention of fullhydbadians....when shall v start 2 work on it...?

anyway until then we can have scrabble meets at Barista....or better still at a house if anyone volunteers...sorry dont look at me...as of now i am not in a position to volunteer my house as a venue.

by **CtrlAltDel** » Mon Apr 05, 2004 4:47 pm

hey....i am raising this topic again as a reminder...? when do we meet for a few rounds of scrabble...at barista for the time being...????

how 'bout the coming saturday? how many r interested?

by **gods_gift2_mankind** » Mon Apr 05, 2004 5:01 pm

hey i'm new to this board n definitely interested in the scrabble meets

like quite a few of u, scrabble holds childhood memories 4 me as well - the only problem there being that my bro wasn't as kind as PMoW's sis'.

but 4 me my word was the final word (actually that worked only in scrabble, cos i owned the game). So i did what any sane sibling wud - i played alone!

n believe me - i always won!!

so i'm up for a battle of wits, words, whatever u may wanna call it!

i haven't played it online n Text Twist sounds a lot like this other game - Boggle - another one of my favs - anybody heard of Boggle?

mebbe i shud start a new topic on that - who knows i might jus get a reply!

Scrabble .. anybody ?

Scrabble .. anybody ?

nice game..

Scrabble.. i am ready !

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