Discussion of Scrabble played to the SOWPODS word list

Sam Kantimathi | 1 May 2009 06:33

SmoothTiles Cool Contest3 + Clocks, Round Boards, Racks, Rugs, ...

Let me take this opportunity to congratulate the winners of the tough
 Contest 1 and Contest 2. They are... drumroll please... Shelley Ubeika
 and Tapani Lindgren who promptly joined me in donating the multiple
sets
 of SmoothTiles won to Andrea Michaels whose friend is using those in
 Nepal now! 

 http://www.samtimer.com/smoothtiles/contest1/answer/

 Answer to Contest 2 was the list of 50 US states! :) Thanks everyone
for
 playing!

 Ok. Time for Contest 3:

 http://www.samtimer.com/smoothtiles/contest3/

 This is a cool contest with user friendly shuffling of colorful
 SmoothTiles.

 1. Drag and Drop the tiles from the tile pool into the containers below
 to come up with 5 scrabble players' names.

 2. Email the names to Sam Kantimathi: sam [at] samtimer [dot] com In
 consideration to fellow members of this group, please do not post the
 answers publicly for a week.

 First one to email me the rearranged SmoothTiles spelling out the five
 intended scrabblers' name will win a nice prize.

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Stewart Holden | 2 May 2009 09:44

Re: Malta

2009/5/2 Maurice Brown <maurice.f.brown-XZoyATsUNX5Wk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>

Anyone got any update on the Malta tourney?

Live coverage is at:

http://www.poslfit.com/malta/2009/build/

Stewart

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jjchew | 2 May 2009 11:47

Malta Open Scrabble Tournament coverage

62 players from 10 countries are competing this weekend here
at the Malta Open Scrabble Tournament.  Links to the web coverage
can be found at either of

  http://www.poslfit.com
  http://www.scrabblemalta.com

They feature commentary from TD Geoff Brousson, tsh standings and
one live game per round (this round featuring Philip Nelkon vs.
tournament leader Jojo Delia).  Leaders after each round are 
also automatically tweeted to my twitter account (poslfit).

John
-- 
John Chew (poslfit on MD) * jjchew@... * http://www.poslfit.com

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edangoor | 4 May 2009 07:08

ISC Ratings and Facebook

After a long hiatus, I connected to ISC. The only thing I saw changed is that instead of having a bunch of 2000 rated players who only play rated games with each other, there was a bunch of 2300 rated players who only play rated games against each other.

I've long felt that their rating system is wrong in that it encourages this behaviour, rather than encouraging people to play with each other, and also being a truer reflection of rating ability. One possibility would be to have a ceiling on rating or only allow incremental increases on wins but large falls on losses. However, this would help the latter aim, but not the former one.

Another would be to allow rating points to be lost through inactivity. In fact this could apply in national ratings as well - someone who achieves a certain rating is likely to have deteriorated anyway, through lack of match practice. In the case of ISC, ratings should only hold if reinforced regularly by wins against people of a given range of rating, say within 500 points of you.

Anyway, these are just some ideas to shake things up a bit.

I notice a lot of people play on Facebook now - is it more fun than ISC?

Elie

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Karen Richards | 4 May 2009 07:09

Fw: SOWPODS tourney in Sri Lanka

Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 4:54 AM
Subject: SOWPODS tourney in Sri Lanka

Hello,

Just a reminder about the SOWPODS tourney to be held in Sri Lanka in July.

SRI LANKAN OPEN INTERNATIONAL SCRABBLE COMPETITION - 2009

We are happy to announce that the much awaited International Tournament is scheduled to be held in July 2009

Type of Tournament     :           Open, International and Rated

Date                             :           3rd, 4th & 5th July 2009

                                                Opening ceremony on 2nd evening.

Venue                          :           MAS Management Training Centre - Thulhiriya 

                                                (Approx 75 km from Colombo City) 

Total Prize Money        :           USD 6,000 

                                                1st Place          -           USD 2,000

                                                2nd Place         -           USD 1,500

                                                3rd Place          -           USD 1,000

                                                Prize up to 10th Place

Number of Games        :           24

Entry Fee                     :           

Inclusive of

*          Accommodation for  3 nights

*          All meals

*          Transport to and from the venue to airport. (At a prearranged pickup and drop off         point. Pickup on 2nd July &
drop off on 6th July).

Entry fee varies according to type of accommodation as given below. (All fees are Per Person)

*          Single room A/C           -           USD 250 (LKR 27,500)

*          Double room A/C         -           USD 205 (LKR 22,500)

*          Dormitory                     -           USD 170 (LKR 19,000)

*          Villa (up to 6 people)    -           USD 205 (LKR 22,500)

Closing date for entries - 14 June 2009

Security - as this will be a question to most participants, we wish to inform you that the proposed venue is
away from the city, located in seclusion and secure. 

For more details, contact

Shaila Amalean - Secretary SLSL. Tel 94112508480/1 email: shailaamalean@...

Lakshan Wanniarachchi - Chairman Tournaments Committee

                                                Tel 94777254294. email: laki_wanni@...

Or visit SLSL web site - www.srilankascrabble.org

Thank you

Shaila Amalean

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AJSWORDS | 4 May 2009 07:46

Re: ISC Ratings and Facebook

In a message dated 5/4/2009 6:09:29 AM GMT Standard Time, edangoor-YDxpq3io04c@public.gmane.org writes:

Anyway, these are just some ideas to shake things up a bit.

I notice a lot of people play on Facebook now - is it more fun than ISC?

Elie

No, it means you can dip into games as and when rather than commit to sitting at the PC for a whole game at a time. Facebook has more irritants - I'm going to have to avoid playing moves over 50 and winning games to prevent the worst of them! I'm not fussed about so-called ratings for ISC/Facebook - they mean nothing to me.

Allan

Allan Simmons
ONWORDS - Scrabble consultant/expert
01890 771785
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edangoor | 5 May 2009 15:27

Calling Anand

Hi, is Anand around please?

Elie

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edangoor | 5 May 2009 16:52

Calling Trevor Hovelmeier

Anyone know if Trevor is around please?

Elie

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mohammed zafar | 6 May 2009 02:25

Its Amazing

This has got to be one of the most clever e -mails I've received in a while.. Someone out there either has too
much spare time or is deadly at Scrabble..    

DILIP VENGSARKAR 
When you rearrange the letters: 
SPARKLING DRIVE 

PRINCESS DIANA 
When you rearrange the letters: 
END IS A CAR SPIN 

MONICA LEWINSKY 
When you rearrange the letters: 
NICE SILKY WOMAN 
  

DORMITORY: 
When you rearrange the letters: 
DIRTY ROO M 

  
ASTRONOMER: 
When you rearrange the letters: 
MOON STARER 

  
DESPERATION   
  When you rearrange the letters: 
A ROPE ENDS IT 

  

THE EYES: 
When you rearrange the letters: 
THEY SEE 
  

A DECIMAL POINT: 
When you rearrange the letters: 
IM A DOT IN PLACE 

AND FOR THE GRAND FINALE: 

MOTHER-IN-LAW: 

When you rearrange the letters: 
WOMAN HITLER 

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Charlie Reams | 6 May 2009 02:27

Re: Its Amazing

mohammed zafar wrote:
> This has got to be one of the most clever e -mails I've received in a 
> while.. Someone out there either has too much spare time or is deadly at 
> Scrabble..   

If by "clever" you mean "old", then yes.

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