We’re positive to be flooded with questions from solvers about learn how to “accurately” enter the solutions, very similar to with a latest poker puzzle. Fortunately, there’s just one baffling sq. right now, which shall be marked appropriate utilizing both S or SHADE. Not D, although!
Why will not D be marked as an accurate reply, despite the fact that it’s the appropriate reply to IN A SCRABBLE GAME / WHAT TILE IS WORTH / TWO POINTS?
D-NIED.
That lacking D will get a D minus. (So does that joke.)
I have never performed Scrabble for the reason that Nice Scrabble Debacle of 2009, during which my aggravatingly defensive play prompted Jill to make me eat my phrases. Scrabble tiles are in no way tasty, in the event you’re curious.
Fortunately, Dan’s bonus materials stored up my curiosity, the mirror format making a ton of unbelievable lengthy Downs potential towards the highest of the grid. LOST PETS, A CAPPELLA, ZEBRAFISH, MEGATRON (one of many finest nicknames in all of sports activities) = 4 zingers out of 4.
To not point out, Dan even labored a number of goodies into the constrained backside of the grid. When you’ve TWO POINTS and A B C (D) E mounted in place, there’s not a lot freedom left. I hardly SAY NO to BREWPUB, and KISMET is such an evocative single-word entry.
I lately learn Oliver Roeder’s Seven Video games, and one chapter focuses on his quest to grow to be one of many prime Scrabble gamers within the nation … by memorizing such phrases as AGLU, CORF, HOWK, and QOPH. Evidently, this is not my (Scrabble) bag. I did admire the try and do one thing boundary-pushing with a SHADEd sq., although.
