Don doesn’t see Xzibit in color, either that or he was sick as shit last night and will be coloring the comic eventually.
So they are/were wrecking my favorite game. Due to Scrabble Community backlash the announcement in the comic above has been softened. Apparently Scrabble Trickster will be released only abroad– Scrabble Trickster being Scrabble the TMZ Edition. Tina, whom those of us that have gamed with her lovingly call “The Rules Nazi” (we lovingly call her in the hushed whispers of Nazi Soldiers discussing the “Bear Jew”), threw up in her mouth a little on hearing the news. She told me about the post-announcement announcement before I could tell her I was writing a comic about it.
It’s a sad day when a vocabulary based game gets dumbed down to accommodate a lack of vocabulary. Call me a nerd, but looking up new words in the dictionary was fun for me when playing scrabble with my parents growing up. Maybe Scrabble Trickster has some other new and innovative rules, but as much as I love opening a new board game (I have an addiction to punching cardboard chits) I can’t imagine this as anything worth while. Although now I can finally legally drop a Goatse on the board and get points for it.
*Typo in the strip, pronoun should read proper noun.
Jenga with super glue LOL!!
The challenge factor is the time the glue has to dry.
So are they also allowing internet lingo and leet speak as well? I can finally carve numbers into those blank tiles and have enough A's and E's. N3V3R!!! 15 points.
do those numbers equal the same points as their alpha equivalent? "Hold on guys, let me get out the L33T Speak Dictionary to make sure this is a valid "word."
LMAOROFLWTFBBQPWNORZLAWLSFTW = Scrabble Auto-Win
I can finally use my middle name, Dudemiester, while playing!
Lebowski has Proper Nouned Dude as well, so if you can just play miester right on top of it and nearly double the points.
Feels Tina's pain.. Next it'll be pictionary with pre-drawn pictures..
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“yo dawg” is a n00b mistake. The correct usage is “Sup dawg”
So is kwyjibo a valid word now?
Balding North American Apes with very bad tempers rejoice.
I wonder if Scrabble was scared the Texters would never play their silly game of correct spelling proper usage in a sentence. If you have acronyms, People, Places, Text lingo, and Gaming lingo. Each game would last 2min. Watch out for the Urban Dictionary! Nothing like explaining to grandma you just finished out the game with a victory with the term "Balki".
Hey Scrabble nOOb! The B is a double letter score so Xzibit is worth 81 points and not 72. I hesitate mention that these 2 words aren't connected to any others. I guess in the new version you can start in the corner if you want to. For reals though, good comic. I LQTM!