Pickles by Brian Crane for September 05, 2021

Don’t gloat Opal. It’s unbecoming.

Spouse has decided not to play word games w/ me. It’s not fun unless you win at least SOME of the time. And her value of “some” is “more than half”, seems like.

I wish I could buy this ‘toon to have it put on a T-shirt. The Scrabble gang in my ’senior housing’ takes this ‘game’ very seriously…

If you want to play Scrabble by yourself, might I suggest “Bookworm” on the https://arcadespot.com/game/bookworm/ website.

How do you spell Ticonderoga?

Earl how much Fun did you have ?

Scrabble is a cool game as long as the players don’t make up words!

But all she won was the cat!

Mark Twain said it best. “Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination.”

Saying no winner or loser is bologna. That is just like the “self esteem” era. When parents claimed none of the kids playing sports “lost” because it might upset the losing team. So no keeping score, every kid gets to play and of course, everyone got a trophy. Thankfully that fad ended as kids hated it.

It is nice to at least see the lovable Muffin in todays cartoon , but as has been in the past there was no lovable Roscoe on the couch , I wonder what happened ?

I trounced my hubby at a Scrabble-off. I also won Grand prize and 1st place for highest scoring game- 476- and highest scoring word, @ 65. It was a memorable day.

This idea that EVERYTHING is a competition/win-lose situation gets real old real fast.

At our house the “Winner puts the game away!” To the victor go the spoils.

Opal and her snarky comments will come back and bite her in the butt! One day…….

You can have a vowel movement when you plat scrabble.

The winner is always the one saying “we only play for fun”

And there Nelson ,you have it!

I guess Earl won today, otherwize she’d have been less focussed on statistics.

Try “Super Scrabble.” Bigger board, more tiles, quadruple wood scores.

There’s nothing wrong with winning or losing.

He’s probably still trying to define antidisestablishmentarianism.

It’s no fair, Earl only knows words four letters long.

When we were young, my cousin and I would often play Scrabble. Though I was the superior speller (and still I am), she usually won because she was so focused on winning.

Grandma won.

I used to date a court reporter, we played Scrabble one time, then he wouldn’t play any more because I won. Also, he called me early one morning (I’m not a morning person) and asked me if I knew what “multicolinearity” meant. I said, “Multi means many, Co means together, Linearity has to do with lines, so it should be many lines together.” He wasn’t happy that, even half asleep, I knew this. Then he asked me to spell it, and I just rolled out the letters. He really wasn’t happy then.

Sigh. Hubby doesn’t spell very well…. at all. I miss Scrabble.