Vole Not Love
Does ZAG exist without ZIG? I played UNITE rather than UNTIE because I like the word better and Mara wondered why she saw VOLE instead of LOVE in her letters. We learned that GEEZ could be spelled with a G or a J and was used as a “mild oath,” but SHANG (maybe we were thinking of DANG) was not. “We we’re doing more than playing Scrabble,” I later told another friend when she heard that our game went on for nearly 4 hours. With a break for Mara pick her daughter up from the school bus stop, it was a record long game, with a nearly stalemated board half way into it that forced us to make one-letter or two-letter plays because no one wanted to draw the ten point Q with no U and no place to play. Mara doesn’t believe 4 leaf clovers are lucky, so she gave me the one she found in the yard while taking a phone call. She drew the Q as her very last letter. The 10 points went to me and she lost the game. “This was a VOLE not LOVE game,” she said.
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September 19th, 2009 2:31 pm
I love that comment ..I will always remember it and the context from whence it came ahhah
September 19th, 2009 6:47 pm
I love scrabble and yes, it’s interesting the different words we see depending on our state of mind or at least the state of our subconscious. Glad you had fun!
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September 19th, 2009 11:39 pm
I hope for a face to face game with you one of these years, Colleen! I am playing 5 games online, but “real” ones are best!
September 20th, 2009 2:25 am
Sounds like a tough game. Four hours. No wonder you started to see all manner of combinations in the words.
September 20th, 2009 3:38 am
sounds like a fun afternoon! can’t remember ever playing a scrabble game that long – good that you both are persistent! 🙂
September 20th, 2009 10:05 am
I loved looking at the old scrabble antics and came across our board………..which was the last one. You can not even read the words anymore. It was almost 5 years ago and I remember because we completed the whole board.
PS It was also fun seeing Mara and her daughter change….you didn’t so much. xo
PSS Mara reminds me of Pam.
September 20th, 2009 1:16 pm
I think they are lucky if you give them to others! Giving them a bit of fairy dust.
September 20th, 2009 4:20 pm
You may have discovered a new divination technique. Scrabble Ouija?
Make vole, not war… doesn’t really work. Do voles make the world go ’round? I guess if enough of the little buggers were running all at once in the same direction…