Scrabble Night

Last night we went to Scrabble Night with some friends from church. What a fun time! We had pasta and baked some oatmeal cookies and then got some games underway. Ms. Grady and I were on a team and played a 94-point word on the first turn ("fettered" - on the "double-double", which is not quite as good as the triple-triple, but whatever). I think that won the game for us, if not for the points, then definitely for the intimidation factor. Still, a good time was had by all. We listened to some good 70's music (Warren Zevon & John Lennon) on LP and with nothing in the room to suggest the 21st century, I kind of felt like I was in a time-warp.

Afterwards we played an awesome little game called "take two", where you put all the tiles in the middle of the table face down and each player pulls out seven. On the signal, everyone flips their letters over and tries to make a Scrabble formation with them. (Ex: "AEBDGOO" --> "be", "bad", "dog", and "go" all in one formation.) When someone uses all seven letters, they call out, "take two" and everyone draws two more tiles, including the person who called it. You can only call "take two" when you have no more tiles to fit in your formation. The winner is the player who uses up all of their tiles once there are no more on the table. But just a little warning, to quote Daniel: "If Scrabble is like cocaine, then this game is crack... the quick and dirty fix. But I can quit any time I want to... Really." Draws seven tiles.

BTW, for those of you still curious what the "triple-triple" is, go here.