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If you remember playing Scrabble back in the day when it seemed like a fun game, and you think that somewhere it took a turn in the wrong direction, perhaps you'll agree with Donald Sauter that this turn was actually the introduction of the OSPD into the game. He recommends using a good collegiate dictionary as the Official Dictionary. (and if you've read Word Freak, by Stefan Fastis Fatsis, and just shook your head over how hopelessly fouled up competitive Scrabble has become, Sauter explains it all on his main Scrabble page.)
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I never liked Scrabble. JFTR and stuff.
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I was fascinated by those rules, tsuwm, though I've never been in a Scrabble club. I enjoy playing when I get the chance, but I don't like to play for points. To me, the 'point' is for all the tiles to be (legally) used. If they are, then everybody wins.
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Scrabble is still nice to play, especially with young reading children. I noticed I absolutely could not do a crosswords in your language, nor scrabble I think, unless I would play every day. I took a list of answers to one crossword-thing and kept some words I could not find in dictionaries like:
getthepbout-arusale-zigs-lew-gostale-ete-castfealibi-eieio
That's it! (yes, of course I would like to know what they mean, if possible)
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I always liked scrabble, though I have never been very good. I can play for points or for subjectively cool words. I'm happy either way, so long as the game is laid back.
Sometimes I can find laid back people to play - other times not.
On the sites, people accuse you of cheating, because you beat them. Other people complain vociferously, because you don't play the kind of game that they like to play. Most of the sites online have lounges for people who do not like to play for points, or an option for soliciting unrated games.
But that won't solve the dictionary problem. There is at least one site that offers multiple dictionaries, but I don't know that it has a 'very restricted' option. Even if it did, I don't know that it would help. There are people who hate the use of perfectly good words like 'theta' or 'phi', because they assert "nobody uses them." I had not considered the possibility of my ordinary conversations being so unusual.
On a slightly different subject, I played chess with a high school footballer once. He was a super nice guy and pretty smart, too. But he wasn't very good at chess. I kept taking his pieces and he was getting irritated. Finally he exclaimed something like, "When the masters play they don't just keep taking people's pieces!" I responded, "When the masters play, they don't give them away."
I long for the days when one could just play a game and everyone just acted like an adult.
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for BranShea
eieio - Chorus of sorts from the children's song "Old McDonald Had a Farm, e-i-e-i-o"
zigs - turns sharply (half of zig zag)
the rest I have no clue.
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Thanks Zed, so at least two of them I didn't schlepp home for nothing.
I love your closing lines, FallibleFiend.
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I love your closing lines, FallibleFiend. he's got a million of them. he's here every Thursday.
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Hey BranShea, You could start a new thread and post the clues too. Some of them may be slang expressions (get the ?peanutbutter? out), puns, words scrunched together (?go stale)or deliberate mondegreens but it is hard to say without the clues. (and now I am curious too)
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Ooh! castfealibi has got to be "cast iron (Fe) alibi". Go stale might be the answer to a clue something like 'what will happen to the bread if you leave it unwrapped'. Oh! And if the fe was indeed iron, then getthepbout must be 'get the lead out'--a phrase that means hurry up. (Um--a cast iron alibi is one that is unbreakable.) And--été often appears in crosswords here--I'm sure as a way to make the puzzle work. Branny, was this a regular Xword  or a cryptic crossword?
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