[VHFcontesting] Change the Rules!

[gmills at frontiernet.net]

Ahh... unless you pulled both blanks with your Z!

Or as I do... hold the Z the whole game for the perfect word, and then  
subtract 10 off your final score.



Quoting "Stephen Hicks, N5AC" <n5ac at n5ac.com>:

> I don't think your friendly newspaper columnist at WSJ has played Scrabble
> in a while ... There is only one "Z" making it rather hard to spell ZZZ.
> Steve
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 15:50, Ev Tupis <w2ev at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Is *nothing* sacred?
>>
>> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123731266862258869.html
>>
>> "Za," "qi" and "zzz" were added recently to the [Scrabble's] official word
>> list for its original English-language edition. Because Z's and Q's each
>> have the game's highest point value of 10, those monosyllabic words can rack
>> up big scores for relatively little effort. So now that those high-scoring
>> letters are more versatile, some Scrabble aficionados would like to see the
>> rules changed -- which would be the only change since Alfred Butts
>> popularized the game in 1948.
>>
>>
>> Ev, W2EV
>>
>>
>>
>>
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