At a high level, Scrabble isn’t about what words you know – it’s about strategy and board control, being able to take advantage of space to play while denying your opponent space.
Sure but that’s just because there is a maximum amount of word knowledge that can be accumulated and all of them have at least come close to fully memorizing the dictionary. That doesn’t mean they can skip all the time spent memorizing. People involved in tournament level Scrabble have practice routines that involve memorizing words.
Sounds like it would be a lot easier, and even more of a ‘board control’ game.
And you’d be able to play your whole 7 letters in pretty much every turn (if you wanted to), since you’ll always be able to find some combination of your 7 letters that doesn’t form a real word. Or … at least almost always? I find it hard to imagine any combination of 7 letters that will always spell a real word no matter which order you put them in.
Yes it would be more about board control, and for instance finding arrangements that place high value letters on triple squares, without accidentally creating words. You’d need to know enough obscure words to avoid spelling any, and to catch your opponent out.
At a high level, Scrabble isn’t about what words you know – it’s about strategy and board control, being able to take advantage of space to play while denying your opponent space.
Sure but that’s just because there is a maximum amount of word knowledge that can be accumulated and all of them have at least come close to fully memorizing the dictionary. That doesn’t mean they can skip all the time spent memorizing. People involved in tournament level Scrabble have practice routines that involve memorizing words.
“The Denying your Opponent Space” is the hardest part.
yeah you can’t have that many letters at once
You sound like you scrabble, so have you ever tried playing a round where you can only use combinations of letters that are NOT a word?
Do scrabblers do that?
I mean, I just “invented” it in my mind but immediately decided someone has SURELY done so before, it’s probably common.
And does it have a name?
If not, dibs on Elbbarcs!
Sounds like it would be a lot easier, and even more of a ‘board control’ game.
And you’d be able to play your whole 7 letters in pretty much every turn (if you wanted to), since you’ll always be able to find some combination of your 7 letters that doesn’t form a real word. Or … at least almost always? I find it hard to imagine any combination of 7 letters that will always spell a real word no matter which order you put them in.
Yes it would be more about board control, and for instance finding arrangements that place high value letters on triple squares, without accidentally creating words. You’d need to know enough obscure words to avoid spelling any, and to catch your opponent out.
I played a few games of reverse Scrabble where you try to get the lowest score…
You can swap letters every turn until your opponent gives up and quits.
Are you really playing the least serious scrabble to win at the cost of all fun though?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superghost_(game)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_(game)