Deano came over last night for our Tuesday Scrabble match. It ended up being the closest game I’ve ever played. He won….285 to 283. That means just ONE tile would have ended the game in a tie (since his score would go down one point and mine would go up one point).<\/p>\n
And then the unimaginable happened. As we were putting the game away (and I was pouting, of course) Deano noticed that an “S” was left in the box and not used during the game.<\/p>\n
Of course, my first instict was that this invalidates the whole game. But then I thought about it more…Deano was the last person to be able to grab tiles from the bag. When my next turn came, there were none left to grab. However, if that lost tile were in play, there would have been one tile left for me and I could have grabbed the “S”.<\/p>\n
That would mean the last word I played, which was “in” (using my own “I” and an “N” already on the board) could actually have been “sin.” And that would have brought us to a tie.<\/p>\n
So, Deano has a choice…he can say we tied, or that the game didn’t count. I’m happy with either option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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