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[CatrionaGrace]

Okay, Louanne. Canadian/USA border at Turner/Climax or Morgan/Monchy. You bring the Scrabble board. I'll bring the Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. We can place the board so half is in Saskatchewan and half in Montana. Do you suppose a Scrabble board needs a passport to straddle the border?

Of course, that part of the countries is less interesting than if we go further west. Chief Mountain is pretty, if I recall correctly. We could schedule a border match for September after the tourists clear out a bit.

 

[Set2Stun]

Had to click and catch up. Hmm. Well, I'm happy the heatwave is over (and so is my cat because I can turn the electric blanket back on). And naps are cool, would recommend to persons of any age. I don't often fall asleep, but after work I find that it's nice to just lie in bed with my eyes closed for 40-60 minutes or so. Lil ole power nap.

 

[Homer Potvin]

Just best not to indulge while at work.

I nap at work constantly. It's very healthy for productivity. Once my eyes start to flutter at the computer screen, I move over to my couch and catch a 20 minute snooze. Pop back up, and I'm slaying again.

border match

I love you, Louanne, but U... S... A! U... S... A!

 

[CatrionaGrace]

Do Canadians use British spelling conventions? Centre, theatre, civilisation? I know y'all say zed instead of zee.

 

[Tallyfire]

Granny gear on a truck is the lowest gear, the "barely inching along the road" gear that allows trucks to take of with heavy trailers without putting a strain on the engine. It also allows a truck to chug along at walking speed so that six-year-olds can drive while the adults load hay. If you want a more complex explanation about gear ratios, Google is a better source of information than I am.

Best audiobook? I just finished listening to The Song of the Blue Bottle Tree, which is my own book. All three readers did a fine job.

The book sounds lovely! Must be great to hear your work like that.

Six-year-olds driving? Madness, but it sounds like fun madness.

 

[Louanne Learning]

You bring the Scrabble board. I'll bring the Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.

My secret weapon is two-letter words! Crosswords, baby!

 

[Louanne Learning]

Do Canadians use British spelling conventions? Centre, theatre, civilisation?

Canadian is a mix of American and British spelling.

honour, centre, theatre, civilization ...

But when we are playing, we accept American spelling

 

[CatrionaGrace]

Let's do this thing, Louanne. Scrabble tiles at dawn!

On second thought, I'm not really a morning person. How about after lunch? My treat.

 

[Louanne Learning]

Let's do this thing, Louanne. Scrabble tiles at dawn!

You can play Scrabble online with anyone in the world, for free!

I've never tried it, but maybe it's worth a go?

We can figure it out together as we go.

I've registered with the username LouanneLearning - so you can click on Play A Friend and send me a challenge

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Play Scrabble online for free on PlayScrabble.com with thousands of members from around the world. Have fun playing with friends or challenging the computer!

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[Louanne Learning]

I've never tried it, but maybe it's worth a go?

I just played the computer on the Scrabble website, and I must say the computer is not a very good player. Putting words where there just were no points. Anyway, I beat the computer, 326 to 175.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

I've never played on the computer. My grandson at 15 has gotten good enough that I don't let him look up words on his phone anymore. (I am so proud.) My husband and I play occasionally. I play against myself sometimes. My mom and I played a lot whenever she came to visit. Back when we first got married, my husband invited over some Scrabble-playing folks from work. When I brought out Websters, the man looked up with wide eyes and said, "I thought this was a friendly game of Scrabble." In a voice adapted from a Vincent Price movie, my husband intoned, "She plays no friendly games of Scrabble." Instant psychological advantage.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

I should mention that I never took to the version that involves flipping over tiles to use letters on the opposite side to make new words. It simply did not compute with me. One of the local English teachers was killer at that version. I could beat her regularly with the original version, but didn't stand an ice cube's chance in hot coffee at beating her in the complex version.

 

[Louanne Learning]

Anyway, I beat the computer, 226 to 175.

that's a typo! I actually got 326. Corrected now

 

[Set2Stun]

I am a Scrabble sicko as well. I'm good enough at it that casuals on a game night will refuse to play. Which kind of sucks. I haven't played in person for a while, mind you. I did use to play on a phone app against the computer (can select an appropriate difficultly to your level of skill to keep it challenging) while on the stationary bike, but I kept getting inundated with ads and didn't want to pay for "premium," so..

Anyway I saw this posted today and thought it was clever:

 

[Louanne Learning]

can select an appropriate difficultly to your level of skill to keep it challenging

I wonder what they adjust. Make the computer a better player? Give you worse letters?

 

[CatrionaGrace]

Doing cryptograms on the computer is okay. Don't even mind playing solitaire on it, though I suspect the games are rigged. I draw the line at Scrabble and jigsaw puzzles, though. Computer as opponent is just too SciFi for pastoral little me.

 

[Louanne Learning]

I played the computer again today and upped the difficulty level to "medium" - and I won 420 to 324.

But I sure would rather play against a human.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

See ya at the border. I can click the captcha and everything.

 

[Rigor Mortis]

Just as I began recovery from the last time scrabble was mentioned on these boards...

 

[Louanne Learning]

Scrabblephobia?