The end game is a very important aspect of playing Scrabble. If you have just a few letters left on your rack and there are none left in the draw bag, but you're currently losing the game, you still might have a chance to win if you play your cards (er… tiles) right. No matter if you're playing a casual game at home with a friend or competing against diehards in club or tournament games, the scoring process at the end provides the same results.
Nope, this isn't a flash game version of SCRABBLE. There's already one of those (and a multitude of imitations) for the Apple iPhone, iPod, and Facebook. This is an electronic game, and it's not a "handheld" game like the SCRABBLE Pocket Pogo Touch Screen Game (pictured right). It's an entirely new way to play everybody's favorite word game, and it's called SCRABBLE Flash (BOGGLE Flash outside of the U.S. and Canada).
The game has undergone many transitions over the years, since its days as LEXIKO (1931) to its briefness as CRISS CROSS WORDS to its current and amalgamated, renowned brand of SCRABBLE. There has been many editions of the word board game along that historic metamorphosis, and SCRABBLE has even given in to pop culture, sports memorabilia, and fanaticism.
So you're typing a fairly long sentence to a friend in WhatsApp and you realize five words down you forgot to capitalize their name, what do you do? The lazy way is to delete your way back to the last word. The slightly better approach is to delete the one letter and retype it. But neither of these is the best way.
Today isn't actually Pi Day, but I was unable to get this article out in time. Pi Day was actually yesterday, March 14th (3.14), so let's call this a post-Pi Day treat!
A 12-year-old Minnesota girl was reduced to tears while school officials and a police officer rummaged through her private Facebook postings after forcing her to surrender her password, an ACLU lawsuit alleges.
Today's guide is on creating a password protected folder on Windows 7 without any additional software. Yes, you heard that right. No extra software at all! This guide is intended for beginners. But please note, this method should not be used to store financial or otherwise highly confidential material. It might be a good place to hide a planning document for a family member's birthday party or similar occasion where you need to keep something secret temporarily.
Today I will show you how to create a simple keylogger in Visual C# Sharp, which will start up hidden from view, and record anything the user types on the keybord, then save it into a text file. Great if you share a PC and want to track what someone else is writing.
It's sad to say, but I will no longer be writing up anymore Scrabble Challenges. Frankly, I just don't have the time to make them now. And though they are incredibly fun and "challenging" to conjure up, I'm not sure that people are finding them as useful as I had hoped. But really, it all comes down to time. So, unless I have a future craving for puzzle-making, last week's Scrabble Challenge #20 was the last one.
CREMAINS n/pl the ashes of a cremated body 62 points (12 points without the bingo)
BURKITE n pl. -S a burker 63 points (13 points without the bingo)
Banksy, Cope2, Invader, Retna, Mr.cartoon, They all have a few things in common. Firstly, they are all extremely talented and well known urban artists. Secondly, they all have very memorable and very, very cool names.
The Obama administration has given the Department of Homeland Security powers to prioritize government communications over privately owned telephone and Internet systems in emergencies. DHS emergency power extended, including control of private telecom systems - Washington Times.
When you want to distort text, make sure to have the pathfinder tab open. This tutorial will show you how to manipulate text by moving around the letters and parts of each word, and using different effects that are pre-built into Illustrator. Simple, but well explained, this tutorial is a great Illustrator basic. Distort text in Illustrator.
LAKE JACKSON, Texas – 2012 Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul was endorsed today by the Hon. Jordan Mason, City Councilman, Ward 4 of Rapid City, South Dakota.
In these weekly Scrabble Challenges, so far we've covered two-letter words, double bingos, high scoring moves, triple-triples, last moves, parallel plays, phoneys and opening moves. For this week's puzzle, we're revisiting the strategy for opening moves.
The 2011 Toronto International Scrabble Open (TOSI) took place last weekend, with former World Champion Adam Logan beating out all of the human competition for the $3,000 grand prize. But when it came time to take on the Quackle program in the Human vs. Computer Showdown, he lost his first two games and won the last two, ultimately losing with a measly 28-point differential of the combined total scores. But he still came out three grand happier.
Rosanne shows us in this tutorial editing stitches using Points Edit Mode in design software Embird. Rosanne shows you how to connect each letter for a logical design. Move stitches using Point Edit Mode in Embird.
This quick tutorial shows you how to add a drop capital to the first letter of a paragraph when working in QuarkXPress. There is no sound so don't crank the volume, just follow the text bubbles. Make sure you click on "video tutorial sections" in the top left corner and pick the lesson Add a drop capital to a paragraph in QuarkXPress.
Here is a fun craft your older kids can do with their younger siblings. Step by step instructions on how to create an ABC book to help young kids learn tthe letters of the alphabet. Create an ABC book.
ZUGZWANG n pl. -S a situation in chess that forces a disadvantageous move 81 points (31 points without the bingo)
BEJABERS interj bejesus (used as a mild oath) 69 points (19 points without the bingo)
EUCAINE n pl. -S an anesthetic 59 points (9 points without the bingo)
GUISARD n pl. -S a masker 59 points (9 points without the bingo)
APOLOGUE n pl. -S an allegory 61 points (11 points without the bingo)
PHONEYS 64 points (14 points without the bingo) Definition: to phony, i.e. alters so as to make appear genuine [v]
LEVOGYRE 65 points (15 points without the bingo) Definition: turning toward the left [adj]
ZEBRASS 68 points (18 points without the bingo) Definition: the offspring of a zebra and an ass [n]
BOVINITY 66 points (16 points without the bingo) Definition: the state of being a bovine [n]
RHYOLITE 64 points (14 points without the bingo) Definition: a volcanic rock [n]
JUMBUCK 74 points (24 points without the bingo) Definition: a sheep [n]
CYNOSURE 63 points (13 points without the bingo) Definition: a center of attraction [n]
POSTICHE 65 points (15 points without the bingo) Definition: an imitation [n]
SHLEMIEL 63 points (11 points without the bingo) Definition: an unlucky bungler [n]
WANIGAN 61 points (11 points without the bingo) Definition: a supply chest used in a logging camp [n]
DOTTREL 58 points (8 points without the bingo) Definition: dotterel; a shore bird [n]
ALAMEDA 60 points (10 points without the bingo) Definition: a shaded walkway [n]
DIAPSID 61 points (11 points without the bingo) Definition: a reptile with two pairs of temporal openings in the skull [n]
WICKIUP 68 points (18 points without the bingo) Definition: an American Indian hut [n]
ISOPLETH 63 points (13 points without the bingo) Definition: a type of isogram [n]
