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[wellinghall]

What is the correct term for someone who, when playing you at Scrabble, gets a 7-letter word?

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[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Me!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Not playing Scrabble with you, then! ;-)

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Eight times in my last nine games including the first two moves of one game.

[frandowdsofa.livejournal.com]

A Sofa!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Quite!!!

[miss-next.livejournal.com]

Mole!

[reverendgrim.livejournal.com]

How about bastard, which is a 7 letter word, coincidentally? 8-)

[romancinger.livejournal.com]

I thought same as the above.

[pellegrina.livejournal.com]

So did I.

[begemotr.livejournal.com]

+1

[chris-maslen.livejournal.com]

Before she died the answer to this question would have been my Great Aunt Kath.

She regularly played with friends who are in the Woking Scrabble Club, which apparently contains 3 of the UK's top 10 players. She was of the oppinion that if you couldn't score at least 30 points every time you played any tiles at all then you just weren't trying.

When the rest of the family played we used to think a score of about 150 at the end of the game was good, she regarded anything less than about 350 as being a pretty poor show.

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

Me too sometimes. Becoming a full scrabble whizz (by ingesting the scrabble-words book) is one of my retirement, or in-traction-for-6-months, projects. I'm not a whizz now, just quite good at it but a bit out of practice.

[lynn-maudlin.livejournal.com]

"winner" or possibly "obnoxious," depending!

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

"winner" It depends...one has to weigh up keeping letters back for possible 7-letter scores and getting quite low score in the meantime (or even exchanging letters for zero points that go) versus just getting on with your best word or combination each round. Sometimes one is lucky enough to be able to do both. Depends how well/consistently the other person is playing. (And whether you know they are also good at coming up with 7-letter anagrams or other high-value words).

[the-marquis.livejournal.com]

Depends on if you're married to them, you can get away with darling!

[riverheart.livejournal.com]

We call the act "making a bingo", but we're Americans.

Charles does this more frequently than I and gets called a son of a bitch sometimes, especially when he takes a space I was eyeing.

He suggests "asshole", since "bastard" has already been suggested.

[megamole.livejournal.com]

BASTARD is a seven-letter word. As is FLUKIER. Or JAMMIER.

Eight-letter words that might be apposite:
BRIGHTER, CLEVERER, RANDOMLY.

[beam-engine.livejournal.com]

A 'show off' or 'clever clogs' is usually what come up in our house :( and for some reason its never me!

[estiel.livejournal.com]

smartass