Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for September 22, 2023

*SLAMMERED OR DUNKERED ARE PL AS 6S

Head and noose for lady in red, a hung hangman play.

What would be the effect if Scrabble began allowing hyphenated words, with the hyphen as a tile?

Ñame that sçrawbble board.

Lemony Snicket pouts about this every time he plays Scrabble.

Sçrawbble-Drawbble

Cakesniffer would make a great indie band name.

Personally, I’m at a loss for words.

I have always used Webster’s Third International as the definitive resource for challenges. But I once played with a friend who only would accept words in the Scrabble dictionary, and it was maddening. If it wasn’t in there, she wouldn’t accept it. Lovely human being, but boy was she a stickler on that point.

Is butt sniffer valid ?  (asking for a friend)

That may be, but I’m keeping the prize money

…‘Oh, but it should be a term…

…a derogatory word for the poor…

…someone too poor to buy a cake…

…in other news …

…here in the opening words to Donald Trumps new autobiography: …

… It was a dark and Stormy night…

…and the opening words to Joe Biden’s: …

… It was difficult times, no one knew who was the Hunter or who was the hunted…

If we ALL start using it enough, it may soon be included in all the best dictionaries. How many points would it be?

Is buttsniffer ok?

“Hairsniffer” was added to the Oxford dictionary just this year…

Love this color palette.

whose rules?

Somebody in the strip lost their head over this ruling. Literally.

And the kerfuffle at the Scrabble® players’ club rose to the level of a dustup!

Try “corkscrewer” instead.

Love the snake in the grass, great collage.

Cakesniffer (sung to the tune of Day Tripper by the Beatles)

Cakesniffing is a crime in 37 states.

I’m more of a piesniffer.

What about cakesnarfer? Can we agree on cakesnarfer?

Had an uncle who insisted his “icecoldwaterbucket” was a valid word. He …uh…

English needs more compound words and lots more agglutination.

But what a great thing to be.

As though this matters to me! I am not a “cakesniffer” (if there is such a word, or we can coin it), and I haven’t played Scrabble® in decades (yes, literally decades).

As a result, rather than the problematic humanoids scattered across the panel, I am more focussed on the yucky tapeworm at the bottom left. I hate tapeworms! (And don’t try to fob it of as “just an eel” when I can see clearly now that it is indeed an insidious, offensive, yucky tapeworm!)

https://tinyurl.Com/qfodt6o Now we are thirty….

Cake sniffer is now in my vocabulary

How about cakechomper?

Correct spelling… Cakesnipher…details matter.