Obscure yet acceptable 2 letter words are the bane of scrabble.

This guy should play my aunt. She'd want to kill him.
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This doesn't work in any normal setting where people will say "fuck you, that's not a word!" and threaten to swipe the board from the table.

Annnnnnnd this is why I play the electronic versions of games.

>> ^Zyrxil:

Obscure yet acceptable 2 letter words are the bane of scrabble.


You obviously don't play much Scrabble. Two-letter words are an essential part of strategy, and any Scrabble player should have them committed to memory (for a serious game), or at least the players should have a list of them during the game. Also, there are several different lists of two-letter words, so players must agree on which list they use. Most of these two-letter words are not particularly obscure. I suppose "xu" and "za" are obscure, but if everyone knows the two-letter words, then there's no "bane", now is there?

Why the hell do they have the slide timings on the presentation? That's distracting. They presentation should be about the content, not the delivery mechanism. The organizers of this think they're cleverer than they are.

>> ^rychan:

Why the hell do they have the slide timings on the presentation? That's distracting. They presentation should be about the content, not the delivery mechanism. The organizers of this think they're cleverer than they are.


I fully agree. I'm also not totally sure why they are forcing people to keep it under 5 minutes. I don't mind someone going for a little while about something interesting. It's like they are trying to be TED Talks, but want to be different somehow and since we know all youngsters have ADD, they settled on this idea.

>> ^ChairmanRoberto:

>> ^Zyrxil:
Obscure yet acceptable 2 letter words are the bane of scrabble.

You obviously don't play much Scrabble. Two-letter words are an essential part of strategy, and any Scrabble player should have them committed to memory (for a serious game), or at least the players should have a list of them during the game. Also, there are several different lists of two-letter words, so players must agree on which list they use. Most of these two-letter words are not particularly obscure. I suppose "xu" and "za" are obscure, but if everyone knows the two-letter words, then there's no "bane", now is there?

You're admitting to the existence of multiple lists of acceptable 2 letter words. I don't see that you have a leg to stand on. You can't actually want play Scrabble and not have it devolve into 'use 2 letter words to block everything so there's only space for other two letter words' as if it were a world championship tournament.

Ay yi yi. Kids these days...

Two-letter words are a crucial part of Scrabble gameplay. They form "hooks" (words forming "L" shapes), and can be used to "stack" words on top of each other. If you actually want to play the game for points (which is like, the point of the game, last time I checked), you must use two-letter words to form the big-point combos. To declare that two-letter words are a "bane" is the height of absurdity, like telling a chess player he cannot sacrifice pieces to strengthen his position. You're being silly because, I suspect, you're too lazy to memorize the approximately 100 two-letter words, most of which you already know. (like "ah", "ha", "ma", "or", etc). If you play Scrabble enough, remembering the "obscure" two-letter words ("xi", "xu", "oe", "ka", etc) does not take a photographic memory...it becomes like riding a bike or typing.

And if you bothered to read my comment carefully, I said that the players must agree upon a two-letter word list before they begin playing, thereby avoiding any confusion. All that takes is having the list handy. On online Scrabble, that list is already determined. I am currently only aware of two lists, English TWL and English Miriam-Webster.

Good luck on your next Scrabble game, champ.



>> ^Zyrxil:

>> ^ChairmanRoberto:
>> ^Zyrxil:
Obscure yet acceptable 2 letter words are the bane of scrabble.

You obviously don't play much Scrabble. Two-letter words are an essential part of strategy, and any Scrabble player should have them committed to memory (for a serious game), or at least the players should have a list of them during the game. Also, there are several different lists of two-letter words, so players must agree on which list they use. Most of these two-letter words are not particularly obscure. I suppose "xu" and "za" are obscure, but if everyone knows the two-letter words, then there's no "bane", now is there?

You're admitting to the existence of multiple lists of acceptable 2 letter words. I don't see that you have a leg to stand on. You can't actually want play Scrabble and not have it devolve into 'use 2 letter words to block everything so there's only space for other two letter words' as if it were a world championship tournament.

I despise playing scrabble. However, I enjoyed this video because I can imagine that injecting a little (or a lot of) anarchy into the game would be entertaining... If you can't beat them, change your definition of "winning" to "making the game as frustrating as possible for your opponent".