Forum Scrabble Part 20

How to play LAST PAGE
Below is a four letter word.
Copy and paste it into your post (don't quote or the quotes could get ridiculously long).
Change/Replace one letter and type it in next to the original word.
The next person to reply will need to copy and paste two words and so on and so on.
No repeating of words. (To check if a word has already been used, hit control F, a "Find" box will appear on your tool bar, type the word in there. (Thanks for that tip LookN!, Your way is fine too, Phil...I just don't remember what it is!)
Let's see how many words we come up with by changing one letter at a time.


RULES:
1. This game is loosely based on the board game SCRABBLE. We are following the rules for acceptable words as set forth by SCRABBLE.

Acceptable words:
"All words labeled as a part of speech (including thoselisted of foreign origin,and as archaic, obsolete, colloquial, slang, etc are permitted". (Note on foreign words - they must be words that have been incorporated into theEnglish language, i.e. Fino (Spanishsherry) is acceptable, Vous (French for you) is NOT acceptable)


Unacceptable words:
"Words always capitalized (proper nouns), abbreviations, prefixes and suffixes standing alone,words requiring a hyphen or an apostrophe".


2. As much fun as it would be to rearrange letters, that defeats the purpose of the game. THE CHALLENGE IS IN CHANGING/REPLACING ONE LETTER!!!


3. You can only play ONE word at a time.


4.If aword is challenged, the correction should be made by the person who catches it and play continues from the correction forward. If words are lost because of that, then shame on all for not catching it sooner. Before you "change" a word, please make ABSOLUTELY CERTAINit truly ISN'T acceptable by looking it up in the final source. See next rule.


5. (as suggested by Desperado).The following is the final source onacceptable words, if you can't find it here, it'sNOT acceptable:

Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (OSPD)
***Please note: in this source the plural tense of a three letter word can often only be found by looking up the singular.ex: LIDSis only listed in source under LID. ***


6. On occasion players post simultaneously creating a double thread. The game moves on from the FIRST new word to be posted. Please take a second after posting to look back and make sure this has not happened to you. If it has then edit and change your word to follow the word that was posted first. That has been the unspoken "gentlemen's" rule of this game since day one and has helped to keep it a friendly game.

7. PLAY NICE! NO TROLLING, FLAMING OR RUDE REMARKS ABOUT ANY OTHER PLAYER PLEASE! THIS GAME WAS CREATED AS A PLACE FOR FUN AND TO TAKE A BREAK FROM THE HEATED EXCHANGES THAT SOMETIMES OCCUR ON OTHER THREADS.

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RE: Forum Scrabble Part 20

Might be another dead end coming. Can anyone find a word besides peso which will trigger another dead end.

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I missed that one completely. What is that they say about teamwork? Good job! Nicky C

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There are 15 official Scrabble words ending in _AGS. We have used 11 of them. Good time to use the other 4. :) :)

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It appears that CIGS is a dead end. There are no more _AGS; _EGS; _IGS; _OGS; _UGS; or _YGSwords available except three: NEGS; PUGS; YAGS. There are no CI_S; or CIG_ words available.

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RE: Forum Scrabble Part 20

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Oh no! I did 2 in a row!

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Scrabble Part 20

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RE: Scrabble Part 20

Toby, I believe that your word changes two letters, "L" and "D". Should be other words to use.

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Hey, sorry to be a pest. The substituted letter must be in the same location as the one being replaced. Example: LOWE --- HOWE. In your case the letters are in a different order. If for some reason I'm mistaken, I'm sure we'll find that out. In my review of the words in the list, I believe that this rule holds true. Please don't consider this a critique of your playing skills. We welcome new players at any time. BTW, I like your pics.

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RE: Scrabble Part 20

Isn't technology great? Another use of Ctrl F is to type any three letters of the last four letter word in the list to find out which combinations have already been used. All of the previous combinations will be shown.

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