By popular request

[ironphoenix]

A recent XKCD comic put soul_diaspora in mind of an incident at our first Scrabble tournament, and she posted a mention of it. Commenters expressed curiosity, so here you go.

In the first game of the tournament, I was matched with a very proper lady somewhere on the high side of 60 years old. She played first, and put down something like CARRY for 28 points.

My rack: EFILLOT

There is exactly one legal play worth 63 points here, so I made it. I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to figure it out; you should have enough clues to make it reasonably easy. Okay, one more small hint, then: it uses all my letters and one of hers.

Not much conversation took place during the game...

Comments

But sometimes it's the quiet proper ones that will surprise you

[beable]

Was she in fact scandalized?

Re: But sometimes it's the quiet proper ones that will surprise you

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

The subject Was Not Raised.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Classy.

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

Thank you... coming from you, that means a lot to me!

[peristaltor.livejournal.com]

That kind of blows. Or did it suck?

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

Neither: I won the game!

[peristaltor.livejournal.com]

And . . . he misses the puns.

Or did he let it slide like one does with risque references such as this? The world may never know.

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

Me, miss puns?

I find that hard to swallow.

(Okay, what I really should have responded was, "Neither: I licked her!")

[peristaltor.livejournal.com]

(Bows)

[squireofmichael.livejournal.com]

Fan-freaking-tastic.

The word's good, too.

[zingkotori.livejournal.com]

Awesome.

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

Mostly, yes; sometimes to a fault, in fact. Still, it feels a bit awkward, especially in the first game of one's first tournament.