Our Christmas cactus seems to have gone haywire. It flowered last November and was over long before Christmas. Now it is flowering again in April. At these rates of flowering it should open up actually at Christmas somewhere around 2016. If I could remember where I bought it, I would take it back and complain!!!!!!
Just had a three handed game of scrabble, and, for the second time in my life, put down all seven letters across TWO triple word scores, totalling 122 points in one go. This was the second highest score in a single go I've ever made. Time for bed - Goodnight all.
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You are too smart for me! I never heard of such a score...
Hi Lori. Matthew had left me with an R on the extreme right hand side of the board, second space down. By sheer chance I was then in a position to lay the word TREELESS down the top right hand side of the board, with the T on the top right hand triple word score, and the second S on the middle right hand triple word score (the first S was a blank).
This left me with a score of eight points multiplied by nine (seventy two points) plus fifty points for using all seven of my letters. Coming to 122 points. I've been playing the game for well over forty years, and this is the second time I've done it. Very satisfying when it happens, but there's a lot of luck involved.
Warm regards, Mike.
8 points for 6 letters and a blank is a miserable hand to have. Talk about carpe diem! I hate to think what your score might have been given a handful of higher value letters.
Do you recall what your previous
triple-tripled seven letter word was?
I am all agog!
(wasn't he a Celtic giant though? Didn't he and his brother throw boulders about and build causeways?;¬)
Pootatu is probably asking if you won... her v-word is 'winthiou' she should know by now that it should be 'Didst Thou win?'
Hi Crowbard. I can't remember what the previous one was, but it scored about 140 points. I have also seen granddaughter Georgia do the same, when she was twelve (and with a tiny amount of help from her Grandpa). I think her score was around 130. As I say, it's a very rare combination of letters and luck.
Cheers, Mike.
Good one, but tell Matt from me to stop opening up the board like that!
GUC, are you referring to Gog and Magog? I know nothing about them except that outside of Cambridge somewhere, Pa has shown me the hills where they now lie...I think.
Hi Ruth, Gog and Magog are ancient British giants mentioned in the Old Testament, and in Geoffrey of Monmouth's twelfth century Historia Regum Brittaniae. The GogMagog Hills are chalk hills to the south of Cambridge.
Cheers, Pa.
Hi Nea,
Yes those are the guys I had in mind...
But I had confused them with two other giants, Finn Mac Cool & Benandonner who according to legend built and destroyed the Giant's Causeway.
I think I probably have too much info in my head and not enough little grey cells to sort it out.
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