Casual Scrabble

I've been alright at Scrabble against my friends- until yesterday. I asked a friend who I had never played against before to verse me, and I got destroyed by about 80 points. Actually, that's not too bad, since I was about to play my "Q" for 60 points... So I only lost by about 2 turns... But I've never lost at Scrabble that hard. It was probably one of the most infuriating games ever.

To start off with, my tiles were generally crap. Stuff like "LULUDRR" was not very attractive. But that's okay, because there's no way I could get crappy hands ALL game. EXCEPT MY OPPONENT SEALED OFF THE BOARD. She's one of those people who'd make more than one word at once to get more points--- and that's fine, but at some point it just closes the board off, until all you can do is add an "s" to the end of a word if you're lucky. And then we have this giant block of letters in one corner of the board, with a v protruding and no way to continue unless someone makes a 8 point move to open the board. Except none of us wanted to relent.

So yeah I lost pitifully because I had the wrong tiles at the wrong time. Most of the hands I had weren't that bad, but the board was atrocious. Then of course I had those pitiful hands where I'd consider it an achievement if I scored over 10 points.

Anyway, because of the sore loser I am, I demanded an immediate rematch. And my opening hand... no vowels. Alright, since it's the opening hand, I guess I'll just swap some tiles... Swap 3 tiles--- for 2 of the letters I swapped, I get back exactly what I threw out. And the last one? A "y". I guess that's... useful. 

I can see my second worst game ever coming up...