BScrabble
My mom and I invented an enjoyable, quick-playing version of Scrabble (with apologies to Milton Bradley). If you hate the agonizing wait while your opponent tries to make a triple-word-scoring word out of a letter set with no consonants, you will love our version. If you can’t spell, you will love our version. If you are a born storyteller (or BS-er), you will love our version. We played it three or four times last weekend, and documented one of the games so we could share it with you. I think it took us about ten minutes to play all the available letters.
The rules are pretty simple:
- You may not play any real words
- Your fake words must be somewhat plausible
- You must provide a pronunciation and definition for the words you play
Being good at BS makes BScrabble pretty fun, and being bad at BS makes it super fun! How can you not like our way?!
Bonus link for context: ze frank’s take on Scrabble
June 27th, 2007 at 4:21 am
Ha! That was so funny. Definitely worth the five minutes. I’ll be playing this with my nanna and my sister who try to put fake words down in proper scrabble. My mum won’t be playing though, as she is one of the aforementioned triple-word-score-no-consonant scrabble sharks that you mentioned. Oh my god, just don’t ever play monopoly with her. You’ll be bankrupt in a second. If she had been a businesswoman instead of a PE teacher, we’d have been millionaires
June 27th, 2007 at 7:04 am
That was fantastic.
I’m going to play first chance I get. But I’d never be as good at it as you guys.
Brilliant.
June 27th, 2007 at 8:46 am
Rupert, you would be just as good at it as us, I guarantee it. Beth, I hope you can get your mum to try it out. She may like it because you can be even more cutthroat – you get to make words that let the letter X land on a triple-letter score, for example.
June 27th, 2007 at 10:09 am
Oh my belly hurts I laughed so much! I love the part where you create a word for a mythological creature, pause, and then say but of course the myth has long since been forgotten. Classic! And well, the pig oil part just plain grossed me out. Ha!
June 27th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
hyrox , there is an animal named the hyrax…i love how similar sounding words have similar sounding meanings… runowager hah… well done. It is like balderdash and scrabble together.
June 27th, 2007 at 2:05 pm
Thank you for your comments, Lea & Josh – I am now feeling warm & fuzzy!
June 27th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
HAH!
That was hilarious! I need to get some atiti’s for down near the shoreline at our place. Think I can get them on eBay?
June 27th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
That’s hilarious. I can’t wait to try it out.