Cinnamon rolls and Scrabble...

It maybe Black Friday in the stores... but to me it's Cinny Friday!! I just ate my cinnamon rolls & with the a good night sleep... I'm feeling good!!!!

Highly recommend you read my previous blog, because it will give a little insight into this blog... & that above statement will make a little more sense!!

Well... after doing a couple other things & waiting for Multiply to decide not to load... I'm finally back to finish talking about what happened last night!!

Let me start by saying that my B.I.L., Aloys, is one of the best Scrabble players I've ever seen... him & my sister Gina together are a force to be reckoned with... So, this year, Gina was out cleaning up while the rest of us were playing. (At her request.) But we did (more like I did) called her in on a couple words to just to verify.

Besides she gets excited for anyone who has really neat words or a big play! And man... did I ever come up with one!!

Here's what happened... we all had our 1st turn... & I went to pull out my next few tiles... I had already had one G... and then I draw out 2 more G's... & I'm in my mind... "Oh great... now what am I going to do with THREE G's???"... but then... I pulled out a couple more tiles... and as I'm placing them down in my rack... a word just popped right out at me...

And so, I'm sitting there like... nah... it can't be... Ok... how am I going to pull this one off... I need someone to play something with an S at the end... I think can play ALL my letters...

Hubby is just looking at me shaking his head as if it's not a word... So, then as Aloys is laying his one word down (Hubby & I's turn was right after him.) ... I called out my sister... and I said... Is this a word... & I pointed & she was all excited "YES!"...

She turns to go back out to the kitchen, but then saw Aloys playing the word TOADS... & we both were like... THAT'S PERFECT!!! Gina's says, "I have to see this!"

So, I lay my word down and viola!! All SEVEN tiles used and on a perfectly acceptable word!! (See board below.)


Then after the tally we find out it was 89 total points (that's including 50 for using all 7 tiles in one turn!!) WOO HOO!!! So, you'd think we have a comfy lead... but nope... Aloys is a great player! He laid down a couple good words. (But no more 8 letter ones!)

Then my mom puts down COZI... and I'm like... no, I think that's a Y not an I... and hubby's, "No, it's 2 O's." I then ask, "What happens if I challenge & I'm wrong?"

Aloys: "If MamaRenee (his name for my mom... her 1st born, my other sister, is named Renee & in Africa, from where he's from... they add the 1st born's child to Mama & that's what you call the mom's... Don't know why he doesn't call me MamaMichael... but that's fine... I'd be confused anyway!! LOL) is challenged and she is right, you loose your turn. If she's wrong she looses her turn."

Hubby: "I'm going home if you challenge her."
I didn't want him to go (yeah, he probably would have gotten up & left)...
but Mom & our 4th player & friend of the family, (I'll call P. from here on out) are saying, "you're winning... it won't hurt to challenge."

Me: "What's the score?"

P: You & hubby 156; Aloys 114; Mom: 100; & P: 59.

Me: Thinking that's too close with a player like Aloys... "No, I won't challenge... but after you add up the points... I want to know for sure."

They give Mom her 13 or so points... and I look up, yep... not only is it a Y... but it's COSY!! But it's an older dictionary. So, I waited 'til I got home & checked it out here on the net... I even tried COZI in the Scrabble Dictionary. But it refers you to the COSY spelling.

Oh... yeah... we called Gina back in & she said that it was a word as a "teapot cozi" ... but she was not sure if that was the correct spelling. So, while looking it up on the net... I also looked up to see if I could find a picture of a teapot one... & sure enough I did... (but it is spelled: COSY... for your future reference!!)

Then we continue on... & we all have a couple great more plays &... & eh... some so so plays... but that's a given!

Here's the final board... I'm showing this... & then I'll finish the story... (not sure, but you maybe able to click on it to see a larger version.)

I got another high point word... ZOOS... it was 28 points!! :o) And at some point I played RAH... just to get the plays to start moving up to the top of the board... & glad I did!! :o)

So, we go along... & all the tiles are now taken... & Hubby & I have in our rack... O; T; E; H; O; B; & a blank...

P. plays VIE... & I'm like... perfect!!! & again Hubby is... "where are you going to play it"... so, I show him & he shrugs his shoulders. He didn't think that EH was a word... but Mom & P. say, Yep it's a word. (The complete word I played was BOOTH.) ... So that just leaves us an O; E; & a blank...

My B.I.L. plays the word EMIT... and it's our turn again... hubby & I go back & forth of what to play...

Hubby: "Play the blank & then I have a spot for the other 2 tiles next turn."

I say ... "If it comes back around... I'm looking for a spot to play all them." I knew there was a spot... but for the life of me I just couldn't see it. (at this point a headache was interfering!)

Finally I look at Hubby & ask... where did you want to play the blank. As I'm saying "don't play it, just show me." he grabs it & puts it up to make REMIT...

ME: "Oh, WAIT... I can play all of them!" ... & so, I put down the O & the E and made ORE and REMIT... for only 10 points... but then because we were the 1st ones done... we got the points that the other players still had in their racks.

Final tally gave Hubby & I: 232; Aloys: 145; Mom: 125; & P: 79!

So... YEP... it was a great Thanksgiving!! I still can't get over that Hubby & I beat Aloys... & at that point I had been up more than 24 hours with about maybe.... MAYBE 10 minutes sleep... and I also had a shooting pain type of a headache. (My neck had to be out of place... because I'm just fine now!!)

All is good... but I know we're going to have a re-match at Christmas... & I doubt I'll get even close to this!! Sure was fun though!! ... & GIGGLERS... ha ha ha!! That was just such a great word to play... coming from me!! "The LOL Queen!!"

Ok... that does it for this stop... I have at least 1 more blog to do... I have to answer my own challenge for the UFC. (If you're a new 'passenger' that's... the United Friends Challenge group that I belong to here on Multiply!!)

Talk to you soon!