Don't play Scrabble with an eight-year-old

[ibegurpard]

You'll find yourself severely handicapped. I was babysitting my niece and nephews and was playing scrabble with the eight-year-old. I discovered that I could spell the word "dildo" for a TRIPLE WORD SCORE! However, I thought that I didn't want to explain to my sister-in-law where her son learned the word "dildo," so instead I went for "axe" for 6 points. :grr:

[Fenris]

1. How about "DILDO'REILLY"?

:D

[miss_kitty]

15. proper names?

not allowed! :D

[JimmyJazz]

2. how could you only score six points when the "x" is worth 8?

Just asking? :)

[ibegurpard]

3. Whatever an "X" is worth...I couldn't remember

I don't play it enough

[JimmyJazz]

6. Oh hell that's okay - anytime you let a kid win!

:)

But, for future reference, the "x" is worth 8 points!

[truthpusher]

4. You can give them a handicap by allowing Pokemon names

[ibegurpard]

5. I gave him LOTS

let him try out words with me and told him whether they were okay or not without penalty.

[mermaid]

7. What About OXIDE??

Could you have done THAT on the Triple Word Score space??

Iron Oxide...Silver Oxide, etc..."Oxide" is a valid word!!

[St. Jarvitude]

8. Good ol' O -2

Iron (II or III) oxide, Silver oxide, even Water (though it only indirectly uses the oxide ion with the polyatomic ion OH-).

Chemistry vocabulary is a must-have for Scrabble players. I rmember frustrating my freeper brother by busting out "perchlorate" (ClO4-) for some game-breaking number of points... he nearly flipped the board and claimed I was "making chemistry shit up" :evilgrin:

[faithnotgreed]

13. hehehe

[ibegurpard]

11. Nope...the "X" was already down

wrong place and not enough room.

[GiovanniC]

9. Playing Scrabble With Eight-Year-Olds is Easy

You can just make up words or definitions and they'll never know any different.

Just say, "Um, a dildo is... a kind of bird. Yeah, that's it. A kind of bird. You see that bird outside the window? That's a dildo. I win!"

Of course, then the kid goes to school and tells his teacher: "I was at my aunt's house last night and I saw a dildo. It was red. There are lots of dildos at my aunt's house."

[ibegurpard]

10. No, this kid is smart as a tack.

And it wasn't school I was worried about...it was his mother.

[GiovanniC]

12. Well, That Would Be Even Worse

YOU: D-I-L-D-O! I win!
KID: What's a "dildo"?
YOU: You know those fried pickles they have at some restaurants? Well, that's "dill" and "dough" together. They abbreviate it "dildo".
KID: Oh.

Three weeks later:

MOM: And we'll have an order of fried pickles.
KID: I like dildos!
WAITER: Ummm... okay.
MOM: I'm going to fuckin' kill your uncle.

[ibegurpard]

14. ROFL!

And those are the EXACT kind of times that kids decide to try out the new words they've learned.