Off the wall and onto my plate, here’s my baked opinion: If you’re going to be married, then you better have children. If you have no intention of having children, then you shouldn’t get married. It makes complete sense. If you don’t want kids, then stay single. If you want kids, then get married. A single life, in its most ascetic state, doesn’t breed life. A single life, in its most ascetic state, is antiseptic, sterile, full of unlimited potential. It’s the conjugal life that procreates. The conjugal life is fecund.

That brings me to a short recollection. A memory has unearthed itself in my chamber of memories. But,

rather than digress, I’ll just show you a picture of a scrabble game I played against myself:

The only tile left was the J.

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Play-by-Play:

aid / paid & pod / qi & qi & id / ay & aid / hair & ho & ad / pristine / out / beef / joes & beefs / beef / hike & aye / minx / ag & ax / iced & age / zeal / uh & um / gonad / ravines & sum / ren & hiker / etiology / well / tons & beefs / paw & pie & an & we / auger & ay / max / draw / any / vac

Remaining tiles:  E, T, T, O, T.  Three bingos: pristine, ravines, etiology.

Overall, a fun game without a lot of defensive play.  We scored a total of 714 points and drank four beers.

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I had the pleasure of playing two Scrabble games yesterday, the first inside, the second poolside.  It has been awhile since I’ve studied a seven-letter rack, but that’s no excuse for my loss in the first game, which I recorded play-by-play.

If anyone is so inclined to work their mind and attempt to recreate the board, my opponent’s opening play, pox, saw the P on the center star square and went down:

pox / haj / wax / horrid / dime / cam / club / sinker & clubs / rut / hour / / later / mu & ma & ut / van & la & man / land / died / vin / vine & cue / woman / stew / zoo / soy / yo / plague / ai & pa & li / life / they / heft / za / ages & at / singer / teal & et & re / plagues & so / big / goo / in & in

The remaining tiles on my rack were E, Q, R.  Yes, I got stuck with the Q.

Legend

= exchange tiles and pass

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Image by BuddhyUK

The first step in becoming a formidable Scrabble player is learning all 101 valid two-letter words.  Having these under your belt allows you to incorporate more adjacent tiles into your plays, leading to higher scores and better defense.  TOE is here to help you master these tiny, obscure words thanks to the keen coding skills of mrjellyfish, whose own Scrabble exploits are the stuff of legend.  Grab your bo or your jo and head on over to the Scrabble Two-Letter Word Quiz...it won’t cost you a xu.

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If you’re capable of seeing hollusions, stare into this Scrabble grid and tell me what you see.  For the hollusion-impaired, you can hover over each image for a revelation of the bingos in that game, or check out the typed list:

Read the full transcription of bingos.

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