Many eons ago (25 July), the Jazzy Scrabble Club of yonder week gathered at the sacred Scrabble site of Klein Libertas to test their wits, wordiness and wacky jazz moves. As was the tradition of the time, the wise and ancient Regulars opened proceedings with a three-way game. Ilse the Illustrious powered on with her impressive individual 200+ scoring streak, obliterating the brave attempts of Tania the Tenacious and Lidia the Loquacious.
Tania channelling her inner Reggae.
The final battle tally was 225 for Ilse, 162 for Lidia, and 161 for Tania. The only chink in Ilse’s near-impenetrable battle armour was her interpretation of YEW as a “carnivorous” tree…
The carnivorous coniferous yew. Nom nom nom.
Not to be excluded from the excitement of the main battle, the young squires in attendance busied themselves with their own skirmish.
A bird’s eye view of the skirmish.
With the opening rites concluded, the Knights of the Rectangular Table gathered for trench warfare. Tania stuck with her trusty comrades, Mia the Meticulous and Lize the Lively, forming Team PHAB (Pharmacist, Actuary and Bedryfsingenieur). Ilse and Lidia combined with Bruce the Brave(ly representing the Male Species) as Team Game Face (Gregarious Anagramming Might Enable Feasible Acronym Creation Eventually).
Tania showed her keen eye for team selection again, leading Team Phab to another team victory, albeit fiercely contested by Team Game Face. The battle was nearly abandoned, as an overly energetic Scrabble manoeuvre saw the field of play upended.
Resetting the battlefield.
Luckily, Lidia in her geeky way was recording all words played for the purpose of statistically analysing the word preferences of the Jazzy Scrabble Club. With the word chronology in hand, the game was soon reset and play resumed. The final scores were 271 for Team Phab, and 260 for Team Game Face. “Tight like a tiger!” as the wise men of old would say.
The victors: Lize the Lively, Tania the Tenacious and Mia the Meticulous.
The vanquished: Bruce the Brave, Ilse the Illustrious and Lidia the Loquacious.
Wise words:
- On the symbiotic relationship between Scrabble and jazz:
Ilse: “I think the jazz really upgrades our Scrabble!”
Tania: “I think we upgrade the jazz!”
Ilse: “I think the jazz really upgrades our Scrabble!”
Tania: “I think we upgrade the jazz!”
Lies, damn lies and statistics:
I’ve always enjoyed the game Scrabble. The game requires a mixture of vocabulary, strategy, pattern-recognition and luck.
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