word play
The one thing I'd been waiting to happen in all my adult Scrabble-playing years finally happened.
I had QIVIUT on my rack.
In my daydreams about this I never once imagined that I would have no place to put it. Of course not! In my daydreams QIVIUT went on a triple word score with the V on a double letter score, giving me 66 points. Worst case scenario, QIVIUT misses the double word score tiles and only lands on a double letter score tile with a low-scoring letter, which would be acceptable because I would have played QIVIUT. There are times when the awesome word trumps the high score. Thus is my Scrabble philosophy.
Missing the first line and reading 'I had QIVIUT on my rack' makes for an entirely different take on this post. For a moment at least.
Posted by: Rachel H | November 05, 2007 at 02:01 PM
Hahaha. Rachel made me laugh.
Posted by: jackie | November 05, 2007 at 02:59 PM
Don't you love it when knitting spills over into other parts of your life, serendipitously? Scrabble rocks. Qiviut on your (scrabble) rack rocks hard.
Posted by: ann | November 05, 2007 at 03:34 PM
Damn, and to think that I was extatic to have "shawl"... Qiviut beats all!
Posted by: Veronique | November 05, 2007 at 04:01 PM
I had tog the other day - in the end I used something else - more points, but yes, I got a little excited.
Quviut though.
That would be fantastic.
Posted by: Juno | November 05, 2007 at 04:37 PM
Okay, Rachel H AND Juno beat me to it. But I, too, was thinking whoooaaaaaa, baby, that must feel gooooooood. And then I saw it was about Scrabble.
Ahem. Great minds, and all that :-)
Posted by: Lee Ann | November 05, 2007 at 06:03 PM
you and i are in the same scrabble boat. obsessed with awesome words rather than awesome scores. carlos and carla kick my ass with three letter words and add ons in the right places to rack up the points, while i am NOT using letters b/c i am saving them for that perfect word... you have to either a) play for words and screw winning or b) play for points. i have yet to utilize a) and come out the winner. when i say 'screw cool words' than i can win. :)
Posted by: carolyn | November 05, 2007 at 06:06 PM
This is why I don't play scrabble with you. Scattegories, anyone?
Posted by: melissa | November 05, 2007 at 07:31 PM
Did you win the game?
Posted by: Sarah | November 05, 2007 at 11:53 PM
I just checked the dictionary, and qiviut is the plural of qiviuq (even more awesome), which is kind of a drag, since there's no way to bingo it.
Posted by: Ann | November 06, 2007 at 12:16 AM
I, too, share your Scrabble philosophy of style over substance. Most of the time, awesome words win over awesome scores, although now that John plays to win I may have to revise my strategy.
Posted by: anne | November 06, 2007 at 07:49 AM
Rachel H. -- ha! And I agree: sometimes you just have to play the good word because it's a good word.
Posted by: alison | November 06, 2007 at 12:37 PM
Every time I play Scrabble, I have the same day dream! Next time though, I'll be more careful in my wishing, and include a place to put it.
Posted by: Marlena | November 06, 2007 at 04:14 PM
The degree to which you think about Scrabble when not playing Scrabble makes me feel just a wee bit better about the fact that you continue to KICK MY ASS in Scrabble.
Posted by: cari | November 06, 2007 at 06:29 PM
This was so funny. I'm glad other people think about this even when not playing! I've been hoping to have qiviut when playing Bookworm but I haven't yet so I don't know if it acknowledges it as a word. :( It'll happen someday!
Posted by: Jaime | November 06, 2007 at 07:45 PM
Heh. I was really excited when I played 'qiviut' in scrabble a couple of weeks ago. It's absolutely worth not getting extra points to play it. :)
Posted by: naomi | November 08, 2007 at 02:11 AM