When playing using the international lexicon, the word reference is the third edition of
Collins Official Scrabble Words, commonly referred to as CSW2015.
It sounds like Hasbro used to sponsor the tournaments. Then they stopped funding it, but officially-endorsed a player-organized league, NASPA, the people whose rules are given above. Then in 2021, they stopped any official endorsement.
So with that exclusivity gone, I imagine that someone with sufficient savvy that could sell enough players on the need for PECKERWOOD could form a rival league.
Correct. In fact...
The popular word-spelling game recently released a new European version called Scrabble Together. The new version allows players to play in teams, challenges players to spell certain kinds of “goal” words (like a word containing two of the same letter), and provides hints for improving players’ skills. The new version also has the classic Scrabble game board, with its color-coded scoring, on its underside.
A big part of what Fox was complaining about was that "scoring is in our DNA" and "what's the point in playing a game if you don't take score?" (apparently none of them have ever played a cooperative game before, and I cant say I'm surprised, I sure wouldn't want to play a game with any of them lol). Even if that was the most true and reasonable argument in the world, you can just flip the damn thing over and play the old version...
It sounds like they're talking about the original, board game form, not a video game. You can play with house rules.
Good, because they never let me play PECKERWOOD in tournaments
I tried PENCILDICK. "Not a word", they said. 😒
Sounds like something a pencildick would say.
That's what I said. Then I got kicked out of the house. Can't have opinions these days, smh
Well, now, tournaments are another matter.
Hmm.
http://scrabbleplayers.org/w/Official_Tournament_Rules
http://www.scrabbleplayers.org/rules/rules-20161201.pdf
https://scrabble.collinsdictionary.com/check/
Hmm, yeah, they don't allow PECKERWOOD.
It sounds like Hasbro used to sponsor the tournaments. Then they stopped funding it, but officially-endorsed a player-organized league, NASPA, the people whose rules are given above. Then in 2021, they stopped any official endorsement.
So with that exclusivity gone, I imagine that someone with sufficient savvy that could sell enough players on the need for PECKERWOOD could form a rival league.
Correct. In fact...
A big part of what Fox was complaining about was that "scoring is in our DNA" and "what's the point in playing a game if you don't take score?" (apparently none of them have ever played a cooperative game before, and I cant say I'm surprised, I sure wouldn't want to play a game with any of them lol). Even if that was the most true and reasonable argument in the world, you can just flip the damn thing over and play the old version...