Soap - 6 points

February 17, 2005 6:31 PM

The first rule of Internet Scrabble Club is that you make a predictable Fight Club reference in any posts pertaining to it.
posted by armoured-ant (66 comments total)

I am Jack's 8-letter-word.
posted by knave at 6:36 PM on February 17, 2005

You are not your double word score.
posted by drezdn at 6:39 PM on February 17, 2005

In death, members of Internet Scrabble Club have names.
posted by ChasFile at 6:45 PM on February 17, 2005

My God. I haven't Scabbled like that since grade school.
posted by numlok at 6:50 PM on February 17, 2005

In death, the names of members of Interenet Scrabble Club get triple word scores.
posted by filmgeek at 7:01 PM on February 17, 2005

Bah, no Mac capability. I got my hopes up there for my poor Scrabble-deprived Mom.
posted by intermod at 7:12 PM on February 17, 2005

intermod: just get her on Literati.
posted by Pretty_Generic at 7:23 PM on February 17, 2005

E-scrabble is a good alternative.
posted by jellicle at 7:23 PM on February 17, 2005

You're too old, fat man. Your tits are too big. Get off the Internet Scrabble Club porch.
posted by rhapsodie at 7:26 PM on February 17, 2005

With Internet Scrabble club, nothing is real. Everything is far away. Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.
posted by rhapsodie at 7:28 PM on February 17, 2005

The players can leave
Scrabble tiles can go away
The board is their slave
posted by m0nm0n at 7:32 PM on February 17, 2005

Great, now I'm going to get NO work done!

intermod: No problem on a Mac here... use their Java interface instead of the Windows download.
posted by Robot Johnny at 7:32 PM on February 17, 2005

Oops, maybe this is the right link!
posted by Robot Johnny at 7:33 PM on February 17, 2005

I want to have your a-b-o-r-t-i-o-n.

9 x 3 = 27 + 50 = 77.
posted by zpousman at 7:34 PM on February 17, 2005

Mischief, Mayhem, Mac and Linux downloadable clients.
posted by armoured-ant at 7:38 PM on February 17, 2005

this is your scrabble game, and you're losing, one point at a time.
posted by vaportrail at 7:39 PM on February 17, 2005

This is your life, and it's ending one letter at a time.
posted by furiousxgeorge at 7:40 PM on February 17, 2005

damn you!
posted by furiousxgeorge at 7:41 PM on February 17, 2005

You're the all-singing, all-scrabbling, crap of the world.
posted by tracicle at 7:44 PM on February 17, 2005

If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up with a less predictable quote?
posted by furiousxgeorge at 7:44 PM on February 17, 2005

We used to read porn magazines, now we play scrabble.
posted by drezdn at 7:46 PM on February 17, 2005

With a bunch of Scrabble tiles stuck in your mouth, you can only talk in vowels.
posted by m0nm0n at 7:47 PM on February 17, 2005

(...which are only worth one point apiece. Sucks to be you.)
posted by nebulawindphone at 8:14 PM on February 17, 2005

I am Jack's complete lack of vowels.
posted by shoepal at 8:25 PM on February 17, 2005

His name is R₁o₁b₃e₁r₁t₁ P₃a₁u₁l₁s₁o₁n₁
posted by sexymofo at 8:25 PM on February 17, 2005

You wanna see pain? Swing by First Methodist Tuesday nights. See the guys with all consonants and not even a Y. That's pain.
posted by chime at 8:28 PM on February 17, 2005

Yahoo's Literati is a pain because they don't do letter frequencies right. If you can't play off the probability of your opponent having some letters then a huge pile of strategy is gone. Also you can end up with, say, four Qs.

That said, ISC's web interface has always driven me mad, and for that reason I play Scrabble at the Pixie Pit .
posted by mendel at 8:39 PM on February 17, 2005

sexymofo: How long did that take you?
posted by xmutex at 8:59 PM on February 17, 2005

I wanted to waste my Q. I'd spell RAT on the Triple Word and wipe my ass with the Blank. This is my board, now.
posted by cosmonaught at 9:01 PM on February 17, 2005

I've been playing on here for a year or so. I have a sad sad addiction. I'm zosiablue on there, if anyone wants to match.
posted by Zosia Blue at 9:03 PM on February 17, 2005

Thats it - game over, man - game over!
posted by googly at 9:10 PM on February 17, 2005

damn, wrong movie
posted by googly at 9:11 PM on February 17, 2005

It's only when you've lost all your tiles that you are free to do anything.
posted by bigtimes at 9:12 PM on February 17, 2005

if this is your first night at Internet Scrabble Club...

...you have to Scrabble
posted by telstar at 9:23 PM on February 17, 2005

I'm looking down at G-U-N, and I'm thinking "How clean are these tiles"?
posted by delmoi at 9:33 PM on February 17, 2005

/retrieves jaw

...it's full of stars!

Seriously, I had no idea this existed. You've just destroyed the rest of my life. I hope you're happy. I logged in and observed a game at random. It turned out to be Scrabble superstar Trey E's bid for 2nd place. He won against 10th-rated airtight and jumped to 2nd place by 1 rating point (now 1957).

I'm going to go cancel all of my everything forever now.
posted by Aquaman at 9:34 PM on February 17, 2005

"You said if anyone tried to mess with internet scabble club, even you, we'd have to take his mouse ball."
posted by delmoi at 9:36 PM on February 17, 2005

I tried not to play the words "searing" or "flesh."
posted by googly at 9:39 PM on February 17, 2005

Tyler's words, coming out of my rack. And I used to be such a nice guy.
posted by googly at 9:46 PM on February 17, 2005

Nine times out of ten it's a consonant, but every once in a while...it's a vowel. Of course, it's Scrabble policy not to imply ownership in the event of a vowel. We use the indefinite article: "A vowel" Never "Your vowel."
posted by fatbobsmith at 9:46 PM on February 17, 2005

I want to destroy something beautiful, like someone's triple word score.

Is SpaceMonkey one word?
posted by Arch Stanton at 10:08 PM on February 17, 2005

This week, each of you has a homework assignment. You are going to go out and pick a Scrabble game with a complete stranger... you're going to start a Scrabble game and you're going to lose.
posted by milkrate at 10:54 PM on February 17, 2005

Now, isn't this a blatant opportunity for cheating with programs?
posted by abcde at 10:56 PM on February 17, 2005

Also, for a more soulless version try Yahoo! Literati
posted by abcde at 11:06 PM on February 17, 2005

T:Any Historic Figure?

J:I'd play Proust.

T: Good Answer

J: How about you?

T: Joyce

J: Joyce?

T: Skinny half blind Irish guy, he'd play til his fingers were burger.
posted by drezdn at 11:45 PM on February 17, 2005

I'll never, ever, place the word calamari again.
posted by bobo123 at 11:50 PM on February 17, 2005

I like www.quadplex.com best of all the internet Scrabble implementations. Its challenge rule actually makes use of the fact that it's an internet implementation: it allows each player three tries at placing a valid word. So you can try stuff you're not quite sure about, and thus increase your knowledge, without giving your opponent information, or standing a risk of losing your turn.
posted by aeschenkarnos at 12:39 AM on February 18, 2005

Also, SOAP should never, ever be played for a mere 6 points. S's should be saved for bingoing if possible, or hooked off something decent, and the P should be placed on at least a double-letter score. So: SOAP (9) + something decent as a hook off the S (12) = 21. As a minimum.
posted by aeschenkarnos at 12:43 AM on February 18, 2005

You are by far the most interesting single-serving internet scrabble club player I've ever met... see I have this thing: everything online is single-serving...
posted by sdrawkcab at 8:41 AM on February 18, 2005

First person that comes out this fucking door gets a... gets a WORD SALAD, you understand?
posted by ludwig_van at 8:52 AM on February 18, 2005

Sir, I highly recommend that you do not play "chowder".
posted by LionIndex at 9:14 AM on February 18, 2005

T: 3 minutes left in this game. Would you like to play any words to mark the occasion?

J: *mumbles* (With all my consonants gone, I play only in vowels.)

T: What?

J: I can't think of anything.
posted by TheOnyx at 9:15 AM on February 18, 2005

I got so much more than $5 of entertainment out of this thread.
posted by cavalier at 9:27 AM on February 18, 2005

On a long enough timeline, the blank tile rate for everyone drops to zero.
posted by acid freaking on the kitty at 9:33 AM on February 18, 2005

All the ways you wish you could play, that's me. I double word score like you wanna double word score, I draw tiles like you wanna draw tiles, I play compliacted, verbose, and tripple letter tiles in all the ways you do not.




the tiles you play end up playing you.
posted by fnord at 9:45 AM on February 18, 2005

1. You do not talk about 'NET-Scrabble'.
2. You do not talk about 'NET-Scrabble'.

Since 1995.
posted by maggieb at 9:53 AM on February 18, 2005

You're not playing scrabble. Sure, in the Tibetan monk/Sylvia Plath sense of the word we're all "playing scrabble" but you're not playing scrabble the way that Chloe over there is playing scrabble.
posted by grapefruitmoon at 10:11 AM on February 18, 2005

I was reminded of the first game I'd played with Tyler.
posted by codger at 11:34 AM on February 18, 2005

A guy who came to Scrabble Club for the first time, his ass was a wad of cookie dough. After a few weeks, he was carved out of wood tiles.
posted by indiebass at 12:46 PM on February 18, 2005

Well if you want to play against yourself try The man in Blue.
posted by ramix at 1:29 PM on February 18, 2005

You are the same decaying wood tiles as everyone else, and we are all part of the same bag.
posted by graventy at 1:35 PM on February 18, 2005

...and I suddenly realize that all of this: the tiles, the board, the dictionary... is all because of a company named Hasbro.
posted by TheOnyx at 3:06 PM on February 18, 2005

Scrabble... the little game in the back of your closet that would stop losing tiles if only you could stop playing it... but you can't.
posted by TheOnyx at 3:09 PM on February 18, 2005

M: I'm out of tiles and Durden won't let me have any more.

J: C'mon, tile'er, Durden.
posted by telstar at 3:58 PM on February 18, 2005

if you like board games with tiles, Sid Sackson's Acquire
is the best of the breed. Or the internet version. Check it out.
posted by dawdle at 9:40 PM on February 18, 2005

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