We were playing Scrabble last night and as it became more and more desperate at the end, we had some disagreements on what is considered a word or not.
My Dh likes to make shit up and say its a word. He will add an “e” on something and say he read it “somewhere”.
Whatever you say, Cheater Cheater Pumpkin Eater.
We had quite a few “go check the dictionary” moments last night. My opinion is if you can’t define it, you can’t use it.
Anyhoo, at some point he wanted to use the word Wii. At first I said no, its some made up word from a company and not in the dictionary. But then I relented and said fine, he could use it. I thought that was very negotiable of me. However when I went to use the word “OJ”, he refused to give it to me. Probably because it would have meant I would have WON the game and he could not handle losing to a girl.
(OJ seriously would have netted me like 16 points, ha ha ha)
I made him give up the Wii points after that.
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I went the other way than Kasandria – Wii – no — OJ – yes.
The way to solve the arguments is either a scrabble dictionary (book or online) or Webster’s.
I meant acceptable words not rules…
I didn’t see it on the box anywhere but Wikipedia has the rules about acceptable rules here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabble
However we always make up our own rules to games..just make sure to make them clear before starting the game LOL
I don’t think your allowed to use proper names or abbreviations in scrabble..I’ll have to go check I have the game in my cabinet. I love scrabble but no one will ever play it with me!
I vote yes on Wii and No on OJ
Sounds like a nice friendly game of scrabble. LOL. I think both of you were wrong. Sorry.