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Mon | January 01, 2007

Scrabble

NSA Player Information: Panupol Sujjayakorn

Last night I played Scrabble for like the third time in my life, like with actual people and scoring and everything. I got a 198, which I don't think is considered a high score. If I had broken 200 then that would have been going too far. I did tone it down a little. I didn't use two letter words that weren't in everyday usage. I only went for things like or and do, I think re was as far as I went. If I wanted to be better at scrabble I would go learn all their official two and three letter words.

But I will probably never need them, when playing with most people, as they wouldn't know them either. The question is how I would hold up against devoted scrabblers. I think when I meet them, I will learn those words then, when they use them. Until then, it's a nice handicap, to only allow myself the indisputable two letter words. I also resolved to not take too long for my turns, basically always went right away. This puts pressure on people though to keep up with the pace, and so it isn't such a good equalizing tactic.

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