Challenge Corner discussion

Thanks, Laura, for helping with the posting of our books. Much appreciated!

PICKABLE was a fantastic play!!! I was cackling when I added up the score, lol

Lol, thanks Saige! I almost played a word with the q & z for a little less 80pts
This was much better!!

We can use the s and hit the double word score twice!!

azotes-z hits a double letter :-)
81 points I believe

L7-L12

Maybe we can't use the double word score twice...that would be sad

Laura wrote: "We can use the s and hit the double word score twice!!

azotes-z hits a double letter :-)
81 points I believe

L7-L12

Maybe we can't use the double word score twice...that would be sad"

If you place a letter on a double word tile that makes both a horizontal and a vertical word, then both words are doubled! So if you do AZOTES L7-L12 and have the S make WRANGLER into WRANGLERS then both would be doubled :)

awesome, thanks Saige!

38 points -fecial
37- gah-(with the z)
28-gah (triple letter)
26-hiba

I love that I'm learning new words during this challenge!

Esther wrote: "hey guys. sorry ive been mia for the month, it took me forever to finish my book. just wanted to ask if it would be fine if i just put my finished books in the banked tab of the spreadsheet? cuz id..."

Hi Esther,
can you add your review of the book you read so that we may use it?

We still need to read a book that works for Q
we have a spot to play it

jig-22 pt
jet- 20 pts
job-20 pts
dork-18 pts
dought- 24 pts

Laura wrote: "We still need to read a book that works for Q
we have a spot to play it"

I'm going to start Queen of Spades

Laura wrote: "Esther wrote: "hey guys. sorry ive been mia for the month, it took me forever to finish my book. just wanted to ask if it would be fine if i just put my finished books in the banked tab of the spre..."

added

Hi teams! I've gotten some questions/seen some confusion in chats about when we get new boards, so let me clarify:

The challenge doesn't work quite like real Scrabble because of the larger letter tray and the lack of an opponent. Basically we'll be in this round on this board until your team feels that you're out of moves. When there comes a time that you think you can't play any more words on the board with the letters you have, then you can request a clean board. But keep in mind that on a new board you'll be a lot further from all the triple score tiles, so it might be to your advantage to play lots of small words on this board before moving to a new one. To request a new board, please just send a message on the review thread!

Ela (Mouse333) wrote: "Laura wrote: "We still need to read a book that works for Q
we have a spot to play it"

I'm going to start Queen of Spades"


Awesome! I used our spot but have two more😁🙄

jink-30 points
jam-28 points
jib-24 points
jet-20 points

Posted the book for Q in the reviews thread

Thank you for reading for that hard letter. We will be set to go with our next word- 31 points
Qi

jam-22 pts
mar- 30pts
gis-25 pts
tabi-14 pts

We need a u book
Anyone reading one?

hey! I'm so sorry, I have been on holiday for a while and couldn't sign in 😟

Did you go somewhere fun?

joy- 39
gis-26
ivy-18 pts
upby-22 pts

yep! wales but it was cold and rainy all week 😖

Fun! It's on my to visit list

I'm half welsh, I love Wales but yeah I don't believe I've spent much time there when it wasn't raining

I just started a book for U. If someone else finishes one before me I'll just bank mine. But U is being worked on

gis on k5-m5

tuba- 14 pts
cam-23 pts
mic-14 pts

We need a Y. Anyone have something that might fit?

vip-16 pts
tabs-16 pts
pubs-22 pts

veg-14 pts
vig-14 pts
beg -14 pts

I just posted a book for Y!

wey-18 pts

whey- gives us more points!

if-20 pts

boat-12 pts

toy-8 pts
pacu

I'm going to play these all at once. See what we have left.. harder to find any spots.. at least worth any points and maybe ask for a new board

Wow! I can't believe how many words we have on that board, Laura!

I was waiting for an s
We can play on the current board at least one more time😁

Hooray, a new board!

we can play violate to start us off on the new board and hope for an s or d next turn

Hacklers or charmers just figuring out which gives us more points

Hacklers gives us more points

Wormhole on the triple is a good one for our next play

Can someone please post Ela's book Outlier for one of our O's and then remove it from banked banks and add to the letters tab?

And Ela's book My One and Only for the other o

Megan's buddy read book Searching For Heather gives us lots of points and works for the E. Can it also be posted and then ask to play
wormhole on g1-n1

I'm in spotty reception and can't post with the book image

I've posted. Think I picked a different book for E but still was one of my buddy reads so hope it shouldn't make too much difference

Thank you Megan!
This may push us into first place 😁

We need a "z" book

We can play stanza on the triple and get some great points

I'll look for something else to play while we wait for a z book. Anyone have something for z?

I could grab one its 321 pages, happy if someone has something worth a bit more in points

Sorry I have been so MIA team, been a busy summer, I'm going to get caught up on my reviews over the weekend though.

I am currently reading Zomromcom - have like 50 pages left, I can finish that off today and post for it.

Yes please Jessica! :)