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Midcities Scrabble Tournament

Austin had a big showing in Midcities this weekend. Penn won division 4, Chad won division 3 and Iffy won division 1. Congratulations to all of them. The only division not won by an Austin Club player was my division and it was won by Austin (Bradley). I had a ...

Been a While

I’ve been lazy on my posting. Didn’t make any updates on my horrible performance at Salado for the Texas Championship, or my more impressive one at the Dallas Open. I am planning to compete at the Midcities tournament next weekend so I’ll be studying for that. After that most likely ...

Abilene

I played in Division 2 of the Abilene tourney this past weekend. The tournament was fun (translated: I placed 3rd) and I feel like I played better than I did in Dallas. I had three bingos challenged: BOOZIER, FANGLIKE, and CREOLISE; and I got away with several phonies of which ...

WP-Tiles Plugin

WP-Tiles is a plugin which will allow you to display tiles in your WordPress blog that look like those used in popular word games. It supports a function for use in templates and a custom tag for posts. Example: AEINST_ Download the plugin as a zip file. To install just unzip into ...

WP-TILES

I created a simple WordPress plugin to generate and pages. Still working out the bugs. Here are some samples: I’ll post some more about it later and create a download link for other WordPress users who are interested.

My Highest Score

Played a game on ISC monday that set my all time high score: 625. Not sure what it was before, but this is my first 600 pt game. A triple-triple PINHEADS for 176 really helped.

HisWay Quartet in Marion

The Quartet will be singing at Marion Country Church this Sunday. More info: http://www.hiswayquartet.com/2005/10/20/marion-country-church/

Dallas Cross-Tables are Up

Cross tables from the Dallas Tournament were posted. In my final accelerator tournament I managed to gain 177 rating points rising to 1367.

Be careful with your Q’s, X’s and W’s in Turkey

A Turkish court just imposed fines enforcing a 1928 ban on letters not existing in the Turkish alphabet. These letters are used in the minority Kurdish alphabet and European Union pressure has caused some recent reforms, although they are slow to take effect. Looks like it wouldn’t affect Scrabble ...

New Naughty Threes

Geoff tells me that there are new threes on the OWL2 that aren’t in the OSPD4 because they aren’t family friendly. This blog is uncensored so I’ll risk offending everyone here with them: HOS, LES, and POO. These threes are apparently on the Three to Four list I just posted. I’ll ...