Scrabble, like poetry, can produce moments of high delight when an unexpected connection suddenly appears. Last week in a game with Son RadRob the following configuration arose on the lower side of the board:
| ... | ... | ||||||||||
| T | O | A | S | T | ... | ||||||
| ... | V | A | R | I | E | S | |||||
| ... |
I can't recall the vertical crossing words (shown above as "...") but I definitely remember the instant when I saw that I could link the two horizontal words "TOAST" and "VARIES" with a simple tangential play:
| ... | ... | ||||||||||
| T | O | A | S | T | Y | ... | |||||
| ... | O | V | A | R | I | E | S | ||||
| U | ... |
Sure, it didn't score many points, and I ended up losing the game — but that silly juxtaposition made it all worthwhile!
(cf. ArsMagna (27 Sep 2002), ZenScrabble (7 Oct 2002), ...)
TopicRecreation - TopicPersonalHistory - TopicPoetry - 2007-02-02
(correlates: ArpaNetwork, FreeAssociation, PsillyPslogans, ...)