Forum Scrabble (Part 15)
How to play
Below is a four letter word.
Copy and paste it into your post (don't quote or the quotes could get ridiculously long).
Change/Replace one letter and type it in next to the original word.
The next person to reply will need to copy and paste two words and so on and so on.
No repeating of words. (To check if a word has already been used, hit control F, a "Find" box will appear on your tool bar, type the word in there. (Thanks for that tip LookN!, Your way is fine too, Phil...I just don't remember what it is!)
Let's see how many words we come up with by changing one letter at a time.
RULES:
1. This game is loosely based on the board game SCRABBLE. We are following the rules for acceptable words as set forth by SCRABBLE.
Acceptable words:
"All words labeled as a part of speech (including thoselisted of foreign origin,and as archaic, obsolete, colloquial, slang, etc are permitted". (Note on foreign words - they must be words that have been incorporated into theEnglish language, i.e. Fino (Spanishsherry) is acceptable, Vous (French for you) is NOT acceptable)
Unacceptable words:
"Words always capitalized (proper nouns), abbreviations, prefixes and suffixes standing alone,words requiring a hyphen or an apostrophe".
2. As much fun as it would be to rearrange letters, that defeats the purpose of the game. THE CHALLENGE IS IN CHANGING/REPLACING ONE LETTER!!!
3. You can only play ONE word at a time.
4.If aword is challenged, the correction should be made by the person who catches it and play continues from the correction forward. If words are lost because of that, then shame on all for not catching it sooner. Before you "change" a word, please make ABSOLUTELY CERTAINit truly ISN'T acceptable by looking it up in the final source. See next rule.
5. (as suggested by Desperado).The following is the final source onacceptable words, if you can't find it here, it'sNOT acceptable:
Please note: in this source the plural tense of a three letter word can often only be found by looking up the singular.ex: LIDSis only listed in source under LID.
6. On occasion players post simultaneously creating a double thread. The game moves on from the FIRST new word to be posted. Please take a second after posting to look back and make sure this has not happened to you. If it has then edit and change your word to follow the word that was posted first. That has been the unspoken "gentlemen's" rule of this game since day one and has helped to keep it a friendly game.
7. PLAY NICE! NO TROLLING, FLAMING OR RUDE REMARKS ABOUT ANY OTHER PLAYER PLEASE! THIS GAME WAS CREATED AS A PLACE FOR FUN AND TO TAKE A BREAK FROM THE HEATED EXCHANGES THAT SOMETIMES OCCUR ON OTHER THREADS.
Sorry to say COguyCO, but the word YING is not in the Scrabble Dictionary. You or someone else have to find another word to follow my contribution of YANG. The expression seems to be "Yin and yang", the complementary aspects. There is a music duo called "Ying Yang Twins", so the word exists. But the Scrabble Dictionary is the final source for the game here.
Hi Tom,
You have to look at the singular, search the singular. Both words are there as plural forms.
Quoting:
KEN
ken kens kenning kent kenned v KENNED KENT, KENNING, KENS to know
KEY
key keys keying keyed v -ED, -ING, -S to provide with a key (a device used to turn the bolt in a lock)
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Best regards. /Andy
Okay, we are at an impasse. Have checked every viable option and for the game to continue on we would have to go back and remove gins, gink and fink. All possible options from those words have been used. This effects the turns of TomTierney and Kaithuy only. If they are agreeable to the change I'll continue the game from pins on thread number 16. Am messaging them both. If either one is NOT agreeable then the game is officially over after 5 months at a word count of 1,321, no duplicates, all words in the OSPD... Not Bad! LOL, much further than I ever expected it togo!
Jen
Okay, we are at an impasse. Ive checked every viable option for the game to continue andwe would have to go back toremove gins, gink and fink. All possible options from those words have been used. This effects the turns of TomTierney and KaiThuy only. If they are agreeable to the change Ill continue the game from pins on thread number 16. Im messaging them both. If either one is NOT agreeable, then the game is officially over afterfive months at a word count of 1,321, no duplicates, all words in the OSPD. Not bad! LOL, much further than I ever expected it togo! Jen
We have no objections to the do-over for the sake of continuing the game. Our research has yielded five optional threads upon which to follow if we retract GINS, GINK and FINK, and continue from PINS:
PIES PINA PINT PINY PONS
All other alterations have either been posted or form non-words. Jen (CUDDLEBUTTON), it is your call.
With Tom and Kai's approval to skip back to pins, the game is still on and has moved onto part 16 (XVI)!