Scrabble?

Post by **hollygolightly1** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 11:37 pm

Jockey wrote:OK who wants to play? Where? When?

Me! Sounds like a good way to spend an afternoon when I should be working... Live centrally so any of the usual haunts.

Post by **Onlyme** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 2:00 am

Scrabble boards are awash in Cha-am. Must say something about the "clientele.?"
Onlyme

Post by **Guess** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 4:39 am

The Dictionary is a serious request. Not just any dictionary but one that agreed on by all. Chambers English is usually the one reccomended by the makers of Scrabble I think.

I won't play aginst Jockey cos he nows ow to spel an sais lotts of bigg wurdz

I wnat to start of against Docter Dave. Hiz spellink is az good az mine.

Post by **Guess** » Sat Jul 29, 2006 4:22 pm

Will the fist person who gets an English Scrabble board mnake a post on this topic and I will arrange some games.

There is another thread on Backgammon aswell if anybody is interested in that. I already have a board.

Of course there can be no money on it as gambling is illegal in Thailand and it is against my religion.

Post by **Guess** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 3:38 am

Scrabble board available.

Lets start at 5:00 PM at a suitable venue. We could always use MS Word UK dictionary of an on line dictionary if no none has a proper English. No Scottish spellings allowed though.

Tuesday at Sugar Cane 17:00 PM sound like a good starting place to me. and we will go from there.

Maybe start a ladder or something like that or keep just for fun. Compete over a beer maybe.

Post by **Limey711** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 5:58 am

Coming over in 3 weeks and six days, I will bring a Scrabble game over with me, dont play that much myself, but if it helps, plus I might get a beer from you guys. Plus a dictionary if you need one.

Cheers

Post by **Guess** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 4:20 pm

Looks like we will have to kick off with mil_dos and Jockey then.

Let me know if 5:00 PM tomorrow is OK.

I'd better warn you all though that I have been practising on the Yahoo 30 day triail version and managed a high two hundred.

Post by **PeteC** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 6:58 pm

I wonder if Mattel, or whoever owns the Scrabble TM these days makes games in non-roman character alphabets? Thai being one. Now that would be a test of a farang's knowledge of passa Thai for sure.

I think the board would have to be much bigger as well to accomodate 20 character words.

Pete

Post by **Jaime** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 7:42 pm

prcscct wrote:I wonder if Mattel, or whoever owns the Scrabble TM these days makes games in non-roman character alphabets? Thai being one. Now that would be a test of a farang's knowledge of passa Thai for sure.

I think the board would have to be much bigger as well to accomodate 20 character words. Pete

I was going to post some typically sarcastic comment about how unlikely that would be but thought better of it. After a little googling I discovered that Scrabble (known as Crossword in Thailand) is huge in LoS and is even taught in schools! The Thai version has 114 tiles but most Thai players prefer to use the English version as playing in Thai is apparently very difficult. The current US English language champion is Thai! There are also other non-Roman versions.

Post by **Guess** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 1:05 am

Jaime has said it all.

My wife always buys books where the are full of word and number quizzes. Some are Scrabble like. Also I have seen sets in Thailand but I doubt if they are made bt Mattel.

Post by **probe** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 9:11 pm

For those who like to play on a leisurely basis try this link:

http://www.thepixiepit.co.uk/scrabble/

I have a friend several hundred miles away and this allows us to play. Make sure you agree on a dictionary before you start.

Have fun.

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