SCRABBLE - The Last Word Newsletter
SCRABBLE - The Last Word Newsletter SCRABBLE - The Last Word Newsletter
O N E U P ! C U POne Up! Cup for MayBy Timothy CataldoWelcome back, vocabularians! Just like lastyear, we'll post a One Up!® “game situation”every month so all you doubledomes outthere can show everyone how brilliant andquick you are.Here's all you need to know now to play:Take one or more letters from the center andadd them to an existing word to make a newword. Send your entry tojohnnymustard@oneupmanship.com.Since there won't be a “right” answer, we'll be looking for originality, wit and wow! The winner willreceive a One Up!® and have his or her name put in the drawing for the Grand Prize at the end ofthe year.APRIL WINNEREliot was right — April is the cruelest month:Hi Tim,Your April contest is a real challenge because it featuresa clunkier variety of center tiles than usual. In fact, theseare tiles (VHIUZ) I'd probably exchange if they were onmy SCRABBLE® rack. Additionally, there are no Uppitytiles anywhere to help things along. Therefore, there arefewer possibilities to make words and you will likely geta lot of duplicate entries.So, once again to separate myself from the pack, I am choosing the most obscure and uniquelookingword I could find. First, I am starting with COPE, then adding IHU from the center pool tomake the word COPIHUE. It's not only an obscure word, but it has a very unusual pronunciation:koh-PEE-way.The COPIHUE, also called the Chilean bellflower, happens to be the national flower of Chile. It'smost commonly seen in the Chilean forests as climbing vines with a very distinct look: leatheryevergreen leaves and bright reddish flowers shaped like a bell. Hope you agree that my entry"climbs" above the rest of the competition this month!Sincerely,Jeff “Mr. One-Up-Man” KastnerExcellent job, Jeff, and thanks to everyone who entered. May the best man win May!80
S C R A B B L E : T H O R E A U & T H O R E A USCRABBLE®: Thoreau & ThoreauBy Frank Lee MoodyExcerpts from “The Hazards of Becoming a Truly Good Scrabble® Player,” 1997, by ThoreauMaskin:A total of forty-five human brains were dissected in the study, conducted 1991-1995 atJohns-Hopkins University after the phenomenon had been accidentally discovered. All hadbeen used by adult human Scrabble® players. Twenty-two of the brains were those ofplayers rated higher than 1900 for a sustained period longer than two years. In each ofthose, researchers found nearly a third of the brain area gelatinized--destroyed. The uselessarea had once controlled creativity and the ability to think abstractly. Twenty-three of thebrains were those of under-1800 ratings. All twenty-three of the mediocre brains werehealthy, intact and fully functioning at time of death.Witnesses say the intermediate player proffered his hand after the game, as goodsportsmanship dictates, and that the losing premium player turned apoplectic and begansputtering as though she were a child making auto racing noises. She fell off her chair. Theconcerned young man bent over to aid. She jammed his large intestine with a tile rack. Theoutraged crowd mottled her entire body with a great diversity of shoe prints, including onewhich apparently had been designed for the purpose--it read: “Advice for top Scrabble®players: Good defense.”Excerpt from “Winning Formulas for Scrabble®,” 1997, by Thoreau Maskin:“Nobody taught me,” King E. Lee Tiist’s Lieutenant Damgud retorted. “I saw anadvertisement for the stuff in ‘Soldier of Fortune’ and figured out all by myself how it wouldhelp me pull victory from the jaws of unlucky mediocre players. Stuff my nose with cotton.When it’s plain those lousy little know-nothing turkeys start to pull out the win, I sprinklepowder, unbeknownst to them, on the table in front of them. It touches their skin. Burns likehot coals. They go off to the emergency room. I win by forfeit. Nobody taught me; I figuredit all out by my own self.”**Excerpts copyright ©1994, 1997 by Frank Lee. Reprinted here courtesy of Connie Breitbeil.Players interested in free copies of SCRABBLE®: Thoreau & Thoreau should contact Connieat Conniebreitbeil@yahoo.com 81
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O N E U P ! C U POne Up! Cup for MayBy Timothy CataldoWelcome back, vocabularians! Just like lastyear, we'll post a One Up!® “game situation”every month so all you doubledomes outthere can show everyone how brilliant andquick you are.Here's all you need to know now to play:Take one or more letters from the center andadd them to an existing word to make a newword. Send your entry tojohnnymustard@oneupmanship.com.Since there won't be a “right” answer, we'll be looking for originality, wit and wow! <strong>The</strong> winner willreceive a One Up!® and have his or her name put in the drawing for the Grand Prize at the end ofthe year.APRIL WINNEREliot was right — April is the cruelest month:Hi Tim,Your April contest is a real challenge because it featuresa clunkier variety of center tiles than usual. In fact, theseare tiles (VHIUZ) I'd probably exchange if they were onmy <strong>SCRABBLE</strong>® rack. Additionally, there are no Uppitytiles anywhere to help things along. <strong>The</strong>refore, there arefewer possibilities to make words and you will likely geta lot of duplicate entries.So, once again to separate myself from the pack, I am choosing the most obscure and uniquelookingword I could find. First, I am starting with COPE, then adding IHU from the center pool tomake the word COPIHUE. It's not only an obscure word, but it has a very unusual pronunciation:koh-PEE-way.<strong>The</strong> COPIHUE, also called the Chilean bellflower, happens to be the national flower of Chile. It'smost commonly seen in the Chilean forests as climbing vines with a very distinct look: leatheryevergreen leaves and bright reddish flowers shaped like a bell. Hope you agree that my entry"climbs" above the rest of the competition this month!Sincerely,Jeff “Mr. One-Up-Man” KastnerExcellent job, Jeff, and thanks to everyone who entered. May the best man win May!80
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