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Some of these are not words, this guy sucks at scrabble.
Which ones?
"_M" is the only one that's bad as far as I can tell.
"AS" bottom-up is probably fine? I don't know the rules. The words it could turn into by adding "racist" or "rapist" would be valid words, "sac" and "sap".
_M has a tile above it, meaning this can be anything. There are plenty of words that end in _m.
Scam, scum, slum, plum, trim, tram,
The only bad one is SA
But it's not SA it's SAC or SAP.
Not currently. The implication is that the person is in the middle of their turn, and needs to choose between the two letters, but that means that SA was already played in a previous turn, and while I'm unsure if SA is a proper two letter word in any language, I am sure SA isn't a proper two letter word in English because my family had the list of two and three letter words in the official Scrabble dictionary, and SA isn't on the list. Sh, si, so, and st, are.
The person taking their turn placed SA and is deciding between the last two tiles for their final placement. /joke
That doesn't work with the rules of Scrabble. They have to be placing the Racist/rapist word. Those tiles don't connect to the rest of the tiles.
Isn't AS a word, and so is PI...or can't words go up instead of down? I don't play Scrabble and have only typical knowledge of it.
Oh, I get it. Didn't know Scrabble actually had a blank piece to be used like that. It's been a very long time for me, and very few games overall.
Even without the extra tile, EM is a word. It's the spelling of the letter M.
Edit: also the much more obvious AM.
I was going to say that Trump, being a proper name, isn't a word, but my brain rebooted and I remembered that Trump is absolutely a word.
That's my favorite challenge bait tactic. If you challenge an opponent's word and you're wrong, you lose your turn, so if you want to be an asshole, play a word that exists as an obscure but valid word, but is much more well known as a proper name. Mike (alternate spelling of mic), Jenny (female donkey), Japan (a type of varnish), etc. They challenge, it's in the dictionary, you get to give the opponent a smug grin, and they probably won't want to play Scrabble with you anymore but you just got a major advantage.
If they get used to your tricks, just bullshit them with names that they "know better than to challenge now". It's entirely legal to intentionally play fake words, they're just vulnerable to being challenged.
Of course if you're playing against someone who's actually competitive at Scrabble they've probably dedicated time to studying challenge bait and would see right through you, it's a legit part of the game at a high level so they'd be prepared.
are you kidding? SA is what he bragged about on that bus.
The shorthand to avoid writing sexual assault isn't an actual word.
What about Sturmabteilung then?
you're taking a joke about a dumb game's stupid rules a bit too seriously
Let's pretend the game started with rapist/racist and this is showing how it could progress either way and work?? Maybe? Idk I also suck at scrabble
Ps the cp being cp and not pc is a Choice imo
(I sometimes reply to my own comments because lemmy is inconsistent on showing edits)
Ok I suck at scrabble, which ones?
Sa is not a word. Every other word played is valid.
sap, sac
Yes, however neither of those words are complete on the board yet. That's fine if one of them were in the process of being played, but they're not. Rapist/racist is in the middle of being played, meaning that the previous turn ended with just "sa" on the board, which is not a valid word.
But that is the joke. That the decision could be either. This meme is mid move.
I don't think you understand what I'm saying. I'm saying it is impossible for the board to ever look like this during a real game of Scrabble, even if someone is in the middle of their turn.
Oh I get it. But it's not meant to be literal since it's art.
Sa is just the brah version of sup which is the bro version of whats up. Boom. Scrabbled.
Those are both words.
Tree sap.
Sac - A pouch or pouchlike structure in an organism, sometimes filled with fluid.
The tree had multiple sacs of sap^*
^* I don't actually know if trees have sacs of sap, so don't come at me botanists.
As is.
Unless you can't play words bottom-up.
Assuming rapist/racist is the current turn, then the player who placed sa on the previous turn played an invalid word. It’s possible if the other players didn’t challenge. Sap and sac are both valid words.
You are only allowed to play one direction per turn in Scrabble. It must read left-right or top-down.
you forgot about "ra" and "ist", but the point is that those three are about to be completed, so all words are correct
"ra" and "ist" are part of the word in process, just being done out of order for creative flair, as you noted. "Sa" on the other hand, is its own thing and isn't a word. Doesn't mean it couldn't be there though as it would have to be challenged to be removed.
https://wordfind.com/word/sa/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenge_(Scrabble)
That said if I had a 6 letter word with that bonus I wouldn't challenge homey on like 2 points. I'm dumb, but I'm not stupid.
While not a valid Scrabble word, it does have a meaning: https://www.britannica.com/topic/SA-Nazi-organization
I doubt it was intentional, but it feels kinda fitting.
Acronyms that are capitalized are not allowed in Scrabble. So scuba and laser are allowed, but NASA is not.
"Ra" or "Re" is the ancient egyptian god of the sun "ist" means "is" in german "sa" can mean lots of things in lots of languages
"Sa", as previously noted, is not an accepted Scrabble word. Abbreviations are not acceptable in Scrabble. Foreign words aren't accepted in Scrabble so "Ist" and, "Sa" would be out there as well as it appears we're playing English Scrabble. "Ra" is also not accepted in Scrabble as proper names (like, "Thor" for another example.) are not accepted.
https://wordfind.com/word/ra/
More importantly, words need to connect to an existing word so, "ra", and, "ist" by themselves wouldn't be accepted on those grounds, hence the determination that the person played them on their turn and is actively tying to figure out which letter they should use for the middle bit to finish the single word on a single line they can play on their turn.
https://www.scrabblepages.com/scrabble/rules/
And yes, we are overthinking a political comic ITT.
"sa" is also still in process
You can't play letters/words in two different directions in one turn.
newsflash: this isn't an actual game of Scrabble, it's a cartoon
This line of conversation was discussing it as though it was an actual game. Maybe I misunderstood the point you were trying to make in regards to "ra", and, "ist", in which case my b. To my knowledge there's no rule stopping one from laying letters down however they want in one line so long as it forms a word at the end of them doing so. One could put down "t", then "s", then, "i", or alternate "r", then "t", etc. as they're laying down their word.
Not sure what in my comment made you think I wasn't discussing rules and actual gameplay but if you could elaborate on that for my own future reference, I'd appreciate it.
You can't progress 2 words at the same time.
newsflash: this isn't an actual game of Scrabble, it's a cartoon
That wasn't your position earlier.
"but the point is that those three are about to be completed"
words can be made without playing the game, maybe it's just someone playing around with the letters trying to make valid words without actually playing the game, and so they were forming two words at once
I don't mind which position you take, game or comic, but switching mid argument is just bad form.
I never switched. I always said that if the board was completed, all words would be correct. I never made the assumption that this was an actual game. I always assumed it was someone in the process of setting up the board to create a sentence and have all parts be valid words. No one is creating sentences in an actual game so even pretending that this would be the case is just silly. Thanks for coming to my ted talk.