Papichulo3D is his or her WWF name. I've been playing Scrabble for 50 years now and reckon I am an above average player. Late last night I looked for a random game and Papichulo3D appeared. The game went like this:
P : HAVING
H: SEVERITY
P: MYXOID
H: WOKE
P: STAVING
H: OUTLIVES
I had good letters and early on had 2 bingos - both rather ordinary words: SE(V)ERITY and then OUTLIVE(S). Using my own tip of looking at word endings (ITY) and beginnings (OUT) they were not difficult to find.
Papichulo3D sent a chat message, "Why play when your gonna cheat?" to which I replied, "They are two ordinary words unlike M(Y)XOID."
Then came this,
Which kind of begs the question: How can someone as illiterate (illerate -as he spells it!) as Papichulo3D, play words that most ordinary people would not know?
I wrote a short blog earlier here about how to spot cheating and Papichulo3D showed some of the my classic pointers to a cheat.
1) A good player might have a word like MYXOID but actually, as Papichulo3D played it, it scored low (29). Had he played M(I)X next to SEVER... using the I of HAVING he'd have scored 47!
2) With MYXOID (29) he also left open the TW & TL (W) square which I used with WOKE (33).
3) With STAVING (20) he used the S only on a DL square with no DW at all. A waste and gave me an opening to use my rack.
4) He cannot write English properly but yet has a very advanced dictionary.
So Papichulo3D if you ever read this do not accuse people of cheating without some valid reason. My 4 valid reasons to say you cheated are listed above.
Henryb65
General information
INFO: A word to play is in CAPITALS. Letters already on the board are shown as the S here: WORM(S). Premium Score squares: DL = Double letter: TL = Triple letter: DW = Double Word: TW = Triple Word. The blanks have no score letter on the Top right! A bingo (using all 7 of your letters) gets +35.
Useful word lists are in the first post "ALL MY TIPS. This is the post to read first" and on some other posts. I welcome comments and suggestions.
Had a great play, score or a move you think should have been allowed? Take a screen shot and post it somewhere (Picasa?). Send me the link.
Useful word lists are in the first post "ALL MY TIPS. This is the post to read first" and on some other posts. I welcome comments and suggestions.
Had a great play, score or a move you think should have been allowed? Take a screen shot and post it somewhere (Picasa?). Send me the link.
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