SCRABBLE: When The Tile Gods Are Against You
If you’ve played a bit of scrabble, you know the situation and the frustration that comes with it when all you can draw are vowels, or all you can draw are consonants. Why is that? It seems sooooo unfair. It usually occurs when you are playing against a stronger player, when you could use a little advantage.
Just know that most players experience these kind of happenings.
Some believers of Karma know that it is payback for all those naughty and uncaring acts that you were party to in your past.
Mathematicians know that it is just part of randomness that exists in our universe; there’s no avoiding it.
I neither believe in Karma or am willing to just sit back and suffer the ravages that come out of the tile bag without a fight. I am the kind who would never just lay down and die or simply pray. I would do something. Here are ’7′ things to do if and when these tile dilemmas occur.
7. Draw with the ‘other hand’.
6. Walk around your chair ’7′ times before drawing the next tile.
5. Shake the bag for the full 20 seconds permitted by rule, and draw from different parts within the bag.
4. Employ a surrogate tile picker.
3. Call for the director, delaying the game, allowing the Earth to turn a little more, to alter the alignment of the Universe.
2. Quit scrabble and take up checkers instead.
1. Cast a ‘SPELL’.
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Order a list from me and do a little studying.
Heavy With Vowels
Heavy With Consonants
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