Is this what I have been reduced to?? It appears so. I put it down to a hellish and busy week at work (try month or actually year, so far), a late-ish night with perhaps a tad too much champagne, followed by an early morning and a lazy day.
The offending scrabble board was actually a birthday present for Mr S (we did already have one, so now have two - what complete nerds), but if you look closely, you will see that the tiles are wooden and it is a copy of the "classic scrabble" set, which if you are old and dull enough to remember, was all wood. Mr S was in fact rather disappointed, when we purchased our first scrabble set several years ago, to find that it was all plastic. I still remember him complaining about how you could still get the original wooden sets in North America (he is not a born and bred Aussie like my good self). I think he has secretly blamed the light, plastic tiles and shiny board for his lack of inspiration and luck whilst playing and the fact that I usually always beat him. I just tell him that I wasn't top of English at my school for nothing.
Anyway, when I saw the wooden sets, I knew we had to have one! On closer inspection they are a bit crappy and for some reason the tiles had been stuck together with some tape, making them all sticky. They do feel a bit nicer than the plastic tiles though and have a bit more weight to them. In case you were wondering about the photo - this is not just a cool pic for a blog post; we have this weird habit of always taking a picture of the board after a scrabble game. It is always interesting to look at, to see the words we made. I also have a bit of a theory that the words we make are not completely random and in some way maybe reflect what we are thinking or feeling. Too weird?! I also think these photos would actually make a really cool exhibition one day. Maybe a project for the future...
Oh, yes I did win (by about 40 points, thank-you very much), but as you can see it wasn't a particularly intellectual game, with lots of easy and small words! I told you it had been a long week. Whilst he seems happy with his new board, I told Mr S that we will have to keep looking for an original set - either at a garage sale or maybe on eBay. If you have one that you can bear to part with, please let me know!
Gareth and I played the other night, I won! But it was a cheat word really. He had board in the top right triple word score and I adding ING making boarding that went across two triple word scores. I didn't even realise you could do that!
Posted by: Anna Laura | February 10, 2008 at 09:29 AM
It's no holds barred with scrabble baby!!! All words are possible - unless they are challenged of course! We saw an actual "Scrabble dictionary" at a game shop today. The sales guy was very enthusiastic in his praise of it. Maybe next time.
Posted by: Aunty Shabby | February 10, 2008 at 07:20 PM
Games are fab! We're currently going through a backgammon phase, chess and poker being on the backburner for a while...
Posted by: pinkmilk | February 12, 2008 at 08:08 AM
Games are indeed fab pinkmilk! We had a bit of a backgammon phase a while ago and occasionally also get out the monopoly, but seem to always come back to scrabble. We are quite competitive though, so games aren't always the relaxing diversion they should be!
Posted by: Aunty Shabby | February 12, 2008 at 03:20 PM