“_M” is the only one that’s bad as far as I can tell.
“AS” bottom-up is probably fine? I don’t know the rules. The words it could turn into by adding “racist” or “rapist” would be valid words, “sac” and “sap”.
Not currently. The implication is that the person is in the middle of their turn, and needs to choose between the two letters, but that means that SA was already played in a previous turn, and while I’m unsure if SA is a proper two letter word in any language, I am sure SA isn’t a proper two letter word in English because my family had the list of two and three letter words in the official Scrabble dictionary, and SA isn’t on the list. Sh, si, so, and st, are.
That’s my favorite challenge bait tactic. If you challenge an opponent’s word and you’re wrong, you lose your turn, so if you want to be an asshole, play a word that exists as an obscure but valid word, but is much more well known as a proper name. Mike (alternate spelling of mic), Jenny (female donkey), Japan (a type of varnish), etc. They challenge, it’s in the dictionary, you get to give the opponent a smug grin, and they probably won’t want to play Scrabble with you anymore but you just got a major advantage.
If they get used to your tricks, just bullshit them with names that they “know better than to challenge now”. It’s entirely legal to intentionally play fake words, they’re just vulnerable to being challenged.
Of course if you’re playing against someone who’s actually competitive at Scrabble they’ve probably dedicated time to studying challenge bait and would see right through you, it’s a legit part of the game at a high level so they’d be prepared.
Which ones?
“_M” is the only one that’s bad as far as I can tell.
“AS” bottom-up is probably fine? I don’t know the rules. The words it could turn into by adding “racist” or “rapist” would be valid words, “sac” and “sap”.
_M has a tile above it, meaning this can be anything. There are plenty of words that end in _m.
Scam, scum, slum, plum, trim, tram,
The only bad one is SA
But it’s not SA it’s SAC or SAP.
Not currently. The implication is that the person is in the middle of their turn, and needs to choose between the two letters, but that means that SA was already played in a previous turn, and while I’m unsure if SA is a proper two letter word in any language, I am sure SA isn’t a proper two letter word in English because my family had the list of two and three letter words in the official Scrabble dictionary, and SA isn’t on the list. Sh, si, so, and st, are.
The person taking their turn placed SA and is deciding between the last two tiles for their final placement. /joke
That doesn’t work with the rules of Scrabble. They have to be placing the Racist/rapist word. Those tiles don’t connect to the rest of the tiles.
Isn’t AS a word, and so is PI…or can’t words go up instead of down? I don’t play Scrabble and have only typical knowledge of it.
Oh, I get it. Didn’t know Scrabble actually had a blank piece to be used like that. It’s been a very long time for me, and very few games overall.
Even without the extra tile, EM is a word. It’s the spelling of the letter M.
Edit: also the much more obvious AM.
are you kidding? SA is what he bragged about on that bus.
The shorthand to avoid writing sexual assault isn’t an actual word.
you’re taking a joke about a dumb game’s stupid rules a bit too seriously
What about Sturmabteilung then?
I was going to say that Trump, being a proper name, isn’t a word, but my brain rebooted and I remembered that Trump is absolutely a word.
That’s my favorite challenge bait tactic. If you challenge an opponent’s word and you’re wrong, you lose your turn, so if you want to be an asshole, play a word that exists as an obscure but valid word, but is much more well known as a proper name. Mike (alternate spelling of mic), Jenny (female donkey), Japan (a type of varnish), etc. They challenge, it’s in the dictionary, you get to give the opponent a smug grin, and they probably won’t want to play Scrabble with you anymore but you just got a major advantage.
If they get used to your tricks, just bullshit them with names that they “know better than to challenge now”. It’s entirely legal to intentionally play fake words, they’re just vulnerable to being challenged.
Of course if you’re playing against someone who’s actually competitive at Scrabble they’ve probably dedicated time to studying challenge bait and would see right through you, it’s a legit part of the game at a high level so they’d be prepared.
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