Added a time-waster, Words/Friends. What are these and other allowable "words"?!1
So I just started this with a family member who has been playing Scrabble over 40 yrs and have played six games at the most and have held my own and don't know all the rules even. I thought generally: No proper nouns, no abbreviations, no foreign words. The family stuck to basic "sounds" type of utterances: ER, UH, DUH. Like that. Fine.
So after we finished a couple of games I got brave or more useless and decided to try it on the net, knowing that strangers were likely WAY more proficient/SHARKS. My anonymous opponent started the second game with a word that was fine in history but is today more known as a cuss/epithet-for-a-minority. I let it go and we proceeded like everything was just meaningless, a game. Then the person unleashed a cascade of whadayacallums, "sounds" or letter combinations that were not really "sounds" (as in EXCLAMATIONS or utterances) and were totally unrecognizable as words.
I experimented and inexplicably, the Game God let my "ami" pass (I thought it was a foreign word), but not "jit," as in, "I don't give a jit."
Plus, the player dished out two urbanisms, "ggs" and "afk" that afterward I looked up and found "good gameS" or "good game SLAVE" and "away from the keyboard". Fine.
QUESTIONS:
1- What are allowable "sounds"/letter-combinations. This person used these: ETA VON VAR XI OXO DE UT QAT. As frustration, I added "S" to QAT and it passed!!!!!!!!1 My "jit" didn't pass, nor "YI".
2- Cuss words? Foreign words?
Anything else anybody wants to impart. Thanks.
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of the words allowed. There are websites to help you find words (and I suspect some of my opponents utilize them), but that seems like playing Scrabble with a dictionary. Sometimes I just string letters together to see what's accepted.
