Friday, December 28, 2007
so i had a bit of a scrabulous breakthrough yesterday
Anyone who has played Scrabulous with me on Facebook knows two things: 1) I have a shitty record and 2) I will always play, and I play often.
How shitty is my record, you ask? Through 124 completed games, I am 19 and 105. I am the Tampa Bay Devil Rays of Scrabulous. But I have not resorted to cheating to improve my record. Instead, I figured I'd wait it out and improve through the draft. Oh wait, that's the Devil Rays again. No, instead I tried this neat trick...
I read the rules.
You see, I have lost a considerable number of games within the last few plays (mostly to Billie, oddly enough). Then I lost a game yesterday to my nemesis after her last play, and I realized what I had been missing: the whole deduct-the-number-of-points-remaining-in-your-rack deal. Yeah. Never knew that. Read the rules. Now I'm good.
I have a strategy now! It consists of paying attention near the end of the game.
I've knocked off a few wins in a row, including one (soon to be two) against comebacknikki. I am still pretty sure I'll never beat Collin, and I'm never playing Derek because he is scary good. But everyone else? Bring it on!
How shitty is my record, you ask? Through 124 completed games, I am 19 and 105. I am the Tampa Bay Devil Rays of Scrabulous. But I have not resorted to cheating to improve my record. Instead, I figured I'd wait it out and improve through the draft. Oh wait, that's the Devil Rays again. No, instead I tried this neat trick...
I read the rules.
You see, I have lost a considerable number of games within the last few plays (mostly to Billie, oddly enough). Then I lost a game yesterday to my nemesis after her last play, and I realized what I had been missing: the whole deduct-the-number-of-points-remaining-in-your-rack deal. Yeah. Never knew that. Read the rules. Now I'm good.
I have a strategy now! It consists of paying attention near the end of the game.
I've knocked off a few wins in a row, including one (soon to be two) against comebacknikki. I am still pretty sure I'll never beat Collin, and I'm never playing Derek because he is scary good. But everyone else? Bring it on!
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