Rude Or Modest?

[barry1010]

I just got beat hands down in an online Scrabble game by a stranger. 'Well done, you're very good', I said.
'I'm really not, you're just very bad', he said.
I found it funny but have an inkling he meant it

[emmie]

rude i would have thought. He meant it alright.. big head...

[andy-hughes]

If it was said with a smiley or similar, it was obviously a joke - I would take it as such.

It's a game of Scrabble, not auditioning for the X Factor!!

(and I am being humerous in intent there!!!)

[Ken4155]

Did you play on FB, Barry, or is there a site for Scrabble? I used to play on line at Quadplex a few years back but that is not available now in UK.

[barry1010]

I play on Scrabble Go which is merely adequate. There is a lot of bots which are difficult to identify from real players and stupid add ons which I ignore. I'm much prefer a pure version

[bednobs]

what were your respective scores?

[barry1010]

There was a difference of over 200

[davebro]

I hate scrabble with a vengeance. It seems so pointless when non-English speakers can win just by learning a list of (usually very obscure) words by rote.

A friend used to play the "pure" game on-line incessantly but won't entertain Scrabble Go. He said you get lots of cheaters anyway.

PS. Barry I think it was just an off the cuff remark, after all he can't see what tiles you hold!

[DTCwordfan]

Did you know that the anagram of 'I'm really not, you're just very bad', is 'Maturity or enjoyably revulsed'......send that back to him.

[barry1010]

Good one, DT. I enjoy Scrabble and don't mind losing. I assume many online players cheat but still learn a lot from then.

[bednobs]

how do you cheat at online scrabble?

[puzzled54]

I also use scrabble go. It’s ok and I usually only play people I know, but if I accept a request to play a random person, I find that a lot of people play a few goes and then leave the game if I don’t ‘chat’ to them

[Stephen_G]

Perhaps English is not their first language, and they were trying to see any that your gameplay was not that bad. You wouldn't want to be rude and say what they did. I think I would have played down the scoreline by claiming that I got luckier with the tiles.

[Stephen_G]

* trying to see any that your gameplay *

Trying to SAY that your gameplay

[roadman]

sounds like a violation

[barry1010]

bednobs, you use anagram solvers if you want to cheat at online Scrabble - there are plenty of 'scrabble cheat' websites to choose from.

I think there is more to Scrabble than making words out of the tiles you have - it is knowing where to put them on the board that really counts.

[davebro]

"how do you cheat at online scrabble?"

You use an anagram solver to look up possible words.

[Peter Pedant]

we were taught to refuse the compliment and that saying yeah I am was rude and overbearing

it took a long to accept and thank - times change