Typophile - Scrabble (light question to end the weekend) - Comments

!@#$!!!!!!!!! those are the

russellm — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:58:55 -0800

!@#$!!!!!!!!! those are the same tiles I got in my last game.

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Worth resurrecting for

sii — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:52:49 -0800

Worth resurrecting for this...

http://cagle.com/working/080213/singer.gif

maybe, not?

Via the Unicode list

Poor Defacebook... They

Ricardo Cordoba — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:11:41 -0800

Poor Defacebook... They probably don’t have enough $$$ to pay a proper license... ;-)

Oh geeze! what

russellm — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:55:01 -0800

Oh geeze! what next?

Facebook told to scrap Scrabulous

Posted 1 hour 35 minutes ago

Gamemakers Hasbro and Mattel are threatening to try to shut down “Scrabulous” - an unauthorised online version of its Scrabble word game that has become a Facebook sensation.

It looks so much like Scrabble it never occurred to me it would not be properly licensed.

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It’s not interesting

Richard Hards — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:36:55 -0800

It’s not interesting really Russell, they’re mostly just standard UK spec road signs with Welsh text in addition to the English.

We use URW’s Transport, bold on the light grounds, and medium on the dark.

BTW this is apparently the translation of the Welsh I posted earlier.

“We apologise for any inconvenience
during these essential works.”

>Richard: but I do have to

russellm — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:37:14 -0800

>Richard: but I do have to produce road signs in Welsh.

Now that’s interesting! - what’s your typeface?

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I think it’s a very

Richard Hards — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 02:04:01 -0800

I think it’s a very helpful entry Joe, and I’m grateful to Aric for bringing it to my attention ;)

Try this with a standard “deck”

“Ymddiheurwn am unrhyw anhwylustod
yn ystod y gwaith hanfodol hwn.”

I’d like to point out that I’m not a Welsh speaker, but I do have to produce road signs in Welsh.

Um, I think it’s even more

Joe Pemberton — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:35:43 -0800

Um, I think it’s even more crazy that Wikipedia has a Scrabble letter distribution entry.

On-line Scrabble is great -

pattyfab — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:47:41 -0800

On-line Scrabble is great - I play with a friend, but totally addictive.

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russellm — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:37:34 -0800

We play on Facebook

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The distribution of tiles

aric — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:29:34 -0800

The distribution of tiles per letter and points per letter varies quite a bit from language to language:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabble_letter_distributions

Wow, I didn’t even know

Ricardo Cordoba — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:23:39 -0800

Wow, I didn’t even know you could play online! Very cool!

On the other hand, do I really need to spend MORE time online? Some questions are best left unanswered!

I doubt you’d get far in

Richard Hards — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:40:47 -0800

I doubt you’d get far in Welsh without a custom set of tiles, or even a custom set of rules!

My husband and I play online

Sharon Van Lieu — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:44:54 -0800

My husband and I play online also, Russell. It is great fun. We use WordBiz from http://www.isc.ro/. You can compete in English, French, Romanian, Italian or Dutch.

There is a membership option but we just play for free.

couldnt find a swiss german

agostini — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:39:45 -0800

couldnt find a swiss german version...must be to hard with all those different accents...

Scrabble (light question to end the weekend)

russellm — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:19:04 -0800

I’ve been playing scrabble on-line with my wife. The question came up...

Does Scrabble work in languages like Finnish & German?