Re: [s-d] Re: [s-b] Re: Peter - You have a masterful Tiles PlayAvailable.

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The other word e could've done was TRIGGERED in the center, turning 
DIVERSIONARY into VISIONARY and AI/RL/ED into /RL/AID. It would have 
gained three zones and, more importantly, given em control of more than 
half the tiles on the board, and the only Rune there. EFFORTFUL was 
almost as good, except of course that it was obviously a vastly 
inferior play because it took my tiles instead of yours :)

Just out of curiosity, did you give Peter that play just for the small 
change e paid you, or did you do it intending to then profit from it 
with a high-scoring word elsewhere?

I do crosswords occasionally, but I'm afraid I lack the historical and 
pop cultural knowledge necessary for most of them. I do a lot of word 
games, though, especially Scrabble and Cutthroat Anagrams.

As for interest, another suggestion of the Baron comes to mind: We put 
in a clause whereby a 3/4 majority of all players can eliminate the 
game just by mutual consensus, without the need for proposals and 
whatnot. That way it'll stay around as long as there's interest, and if 
it becomes too unused it'll just disappear.

This would've been a good thing to have had with the Grid, since the 
main reason activity was falling off (I think) is that there wasn't 
enough interest in that game but at the same time nobody wanted to make 
new games when we already had big ones.

--
Wonko

On Jul 20, 2005, at 9.28 PM, flutesultan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I honestly had seen "EFFORTFUL" last nWeek.
> I was looking as the 3 zone Control Tokens.
> Besides, You needed the talisman to strike the "Y",
> but he may have had a play there.
> "DIVERSIONARY" can be swiped from in numerous ways.
> You foiled my ultimate end goal, anyway.
> BTW, nice play.
> Peter only used one play, so far, and Raelus
> chimed in last nWeek as well, so, who knows.
> While I find the developing subgames interesting,
> Tiles is fully formed and a challenge for a
> regular crossworder such as myself.
> I'm gonna proose to see it continued at some point.
> Triller
>
>
> > [Original Message]
> > From: Daniel Peter Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <spoon-discuss@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: 7/19/05 5:31:28 AM
> > Subject: [s-d] Re: [s-b] Re: Peter - You have a masterful Tiles
> PlayAvailable.
> > > flutesultan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> > > > Use an "O" from Moose, leaving "SOME",
> > > > the "R" from Grig, leaving "GIG",
> > > > and tiles from your rack in then upper right.
> > > > Form "EFFORTFUL", the only other word I could find with 3 "F"s in 
> > > > it.
> > >
> > > I do this.
> >
> > Hmm... I notice, Triller, that you failed to point out the better 
> > play he
> > had that took over your long words...
> >
> > --
> > Wonko
> >
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