Feeling Scrabulous
June 18th, 2008 | 
Author: I’ve been playing a lot of Scrabulous (it’s Scrabble, really) over on Facebook for a while, and I’m getting really disappointed in some of my friends and acquaintainces. Why?
They cheat. They’re obviously using online letter unscramblers to come up with mega-words that I really suspect some of them would never know. Case in point, one friend just laid down galyak on me for a triple word score of 39.
Galyak. What the hell does that mean?? Well, a search of the interwebnets reveals: “A flat glossy fur made from the pelt of a stillborn lamb or kid.”
Mm hmm. Riiiiight. I wouldn’t be as suspicious if this person also hadn’t laid down anuria, hearken, negator, quattre, dashi, and pavin in the same game. Now, I’m not great at this game — Kim is the great player of the family — so you really don’t need to use these websites to cheat when playing me. I’ve seen this behaviour in someone else, too, as has Kim. Folks, really — do you get such a perverse pleasure from dominating me by cheating that you have to keep doing it?
It’s irritating and disappointing as I mentioned.
And for the record, I’m barely holding on in that game above — it’s 180 for my opponent, and 173 for me, and it’s my turn to play.
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The exception is people who play a LOT of Scrabble and/or have the TWL dictionary memorized.
Like when I played “zarf” on you. I only know that word because someone else played it on you in Scrabulous, but now I’m going to remember it!
Right.
But anuria?? Come on now!
In my world, anuria’s not that weird a word. But galyak and pavin? Ya got me there.
Yeah, I had to look them up. Yeesh.
Well, no doubt I would suck at this game. I need spell checker just to get “the” spelled correctly.