Every since high school, I have loved the game Scrabble. My strategy has always been: Make a really impressive, lengthy word, and don't pay any attention to the triple or double letter anythings. This takes time, and it yields very very little points. I am content with the knowledge that I may not win a war with my strategy skills, but I can craft one heck of an eloquent sentence in a pinch. Recently, my word world was turned upside down when my very math minded sister began playing Scrabble on her iphone. Her strategy: mix the letters into some semblence of a word that returns the most points, and hope the computer accepts it. This brings her to using words like jow. She doesn't know what they mean, but they sure score a lot of points. The best part is that curiosity is not going to kill that cat because she doesn't even look them up. When I play her, I will say, what does hove mean? She doesn't even wince at my accusation that she's not in it for the knowledge. She simply laughs and moves on. See below for her latest move:
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