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| "Hasbro pulls its support of Scrabble's organizing tournament organization -- the National Scrabble Association". --NY Times, July 14, 2013 |
Words for love: Japanese 2, Sanskrit 96, Ancient Persian 80, Greek 3, English 1
She, sidewinding from the center star: TWOS.
he building from sibilance, up to down: ONES
she slides, pushing tiles over and under ONES, LONESOME
grabbing g, he forges EGO
she built LOVE from loneliness
and he VAGUE from love
she bridges loneliness to vague: NAG
he pounced on VAGUE to USURP
and she that P for PAPA
he pushed TIT up to TWOS
triumph in hard combinations
bedding down together as if
WOO and WED
DARLING and ADORE
VEIL and LACE
TUX and TINGLE and COMMIT
outshone
YES down from YOKE
BUZZ and BLESS and BED,
JOY, JISM, SORROW, and SPARK
EX (triple word score) and SUE and LEFT
FIRE from IRE, ACE hung from AWE
STALE and MATE
she’s left at end with an unplaceable U
he with I
Tricia Knoll is a Portland, Oregon poet who loves word games, plays several on her I-Phone and has known some scarey competitive women Scrabble players.