<p>To help with vocab?
I was just curious. </p>
<p>So that everyone is included, how many have placed scrabble socially?
What is your average score and highest score, and how often do you play? </p>
<p>I’ll start out:
My mom played with me for fun.
Average score: 352 Highest Score: 506
I play all the time online… in fact, I’m playing right now.</p>
<p>We play at home for fun sometimes, but we never played to help with vocab or anything like that. I don’t really pay attention to the actual scores when I play, just what the score gap is between players. </p>
<p>How do you play online? Can’t people cheat really easily?</p>
<p>I used to play with scrabbulous, haven’t been there recently. Now I play with isc [Internet</a> Scrabble Club](<a href=“http://www.isc.ro/en/]Internet”>Internet Scrabble Club - play scrabble online)</p>
<p>People can cheat, but I typically don’t find a big problem with it.</p>
<p>I love online Scrabble! The best site I’ve found is in Britain. It’s called The Pixie Pit. It used to be free but they’ve been forced to start charging a $10 annual fee. It’s totally worth it, though – best interface I’ve ever seen.</p>
<p>I don’t want to get in trouble with the mods for posting a link, but if you Google “pixie pit scrabble”, it’s the first hit. If you join up, PM me and we’ll start a game!</p>
<p>I can occasionally get the kid to play Scrabble with me. I don’t pay attention to the scores, either, except to see who’s where in the ranking of the current game. S, H (S’s stepdad), and I are all pretty evenly matched, though H is the best strategic player of the three of us. (Read: treacherous! Sometimes, it really does come down to the tiles you draw, thank goodness!)</p>
<p>I like playing games (Scrabble, Boggle, Set, etc.) more than the guys in the house do, and I can’t get either of them to play Skip-Bo with me anymore, darn it!</p>
<p>I played Scrabble all the time with my daughter. We didn’t have very much money when she was young, and this was a wonderful way to have fun together. It didn’t take long for her to be able to start beating me…I supposed perhaps it helped with vocab - I always brought her home lots of things to read, so, it’s hard to say what might have helped…</p>
<p>I rarely broke 300 when I played Scrabble with the family, but I’ve been playing Scrabulous with my sister in law and have been scoring 350 pretty regularly over 400 once. Unfortunately my kids refuse to play most word games with me, though they are nearly always willing to play bridge. I like Boggle and thought I was pretty good until my husband and I were creamed by the mayor of our town. (Mind you he’s a smart guy valedictorian of the high school and Harvard grad.) BTW I’m convinced that the increase in my GRE verbal scores was largely due to doing the Sunday New York Times crossword puzzle more than anything I learned in college.</p>
<p>I play with S2 frequently. He’s the one who could use the vocab help, but Scrabble doesn’t really do that for us… but its fun. S1 is dysgraphic, and poor spelling is a product of that particular LD, so we’ve never been able to play together. Too bad, because he’s the one with the extraordinary vocabulary… just can’t spell the words! I grew up with my parents playing with me all the time… we still get a game in together once in a while.</p>
<p>We played fairly often but I don’t remember scores - just who won. Like nymom says, it doesn’t really help with vocabulary. The one thing that I think helped with our kids was talking about words. We always had one of those page-a-day calendars on the kitchen counter. My favorite was the “word origins” one but the 365 new words type were good, too.</p>
<p>We played often but not for vocab, just for fun. We also played Upwords.</p>
<p>I play online everyday at the same site as aig. It’s definitely fun. I’ve played against people from all over the world. You can also play in foreign languages (French, Italian, British English)</p>
<p>I played with my sons occasionally when they were young. That and Boggle and a number of other educational games. We were homeschoolers, and when they were young, Friday would be game day–so yes, we played to help word skills, but also for fun. My husband and I still play for fun. I have no idea what our average or top scores are.</p>
<p>I pay in Spanish, English and French with the next door neighbors from time to time!</p>
<p>I played it with my kids - it’s an excellent game. So is blackjack for the younger kids to help with counting and Monopoly for more counting.</p>
<p>My 82 y/o mother is the best scrabble player I know. She’s very good with crossword puzzles as well.</p>
<p>We played some scrabble, but I preferred (and still do) Perquackey. We didn’t really use it as educational tool, just for fun. I did teach S his numbers with Uno, and Blackjack was the vehicle for teaching D addition…great time killer in restaurants, too. </p>
<p>S’ foreign language is Japanese, so no multilingual Scrabble at our house! I’ll have to keep it in mind when D starts HS. What a great idea!</p>
<p>My son loved Scrabble and any word game since he was little. Plays in tournaments when he can and does very well. I think it helped a lot with learning new words, but also was a nice social outlet along with chess, a change from just sports. He plays online, I’ll have to tell him about the Pixie Pit one.</p>
<p>It’s a faster, more fun for younger kids. You use the scrabble tiles, but the not the board. </p>
<p>Everyone (unlimited number can play) takes 7 tiles and attempts to use those 7 tiles by making words in their own personal up/down-scrabble formation. Unused tiles are turned over in the center of the table. First one who uses all their tiles says “Take Two”. Everyone takes two more tiles from the center and incorporates them into their formations. “Take Two” continues until all the center tiles have been used up. Winner is the first one to use all their tiles after the last of the center tiles have all been taken. </p>
<p>As the game progresses the complexity of the words grow as the number of tiles you have to work with grows. Fun part of this game is you can destroy your word formations at any time as you see a better combination of tiles. It can be played with teams - especially good for players of unequal ages.</p>
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That was my original problem, I’ve never been a good speller. Go figure. </p>
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I might see if I can get my brother to play with me in Spanish after I’ve started it this year. I might suggest it to the teacher.
I think it would help remember words. Is the use of e’s equally prominent in most languages as it is in English? </p>
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<p>I have to mention a variation that my family does, which is why I believe it helps our vocabulary. We play with the dictionary, so that you may ask about the validity of what you want to play. It’s an easy way to learn a lot of words. Of course, one can’t do that online. We know all of the 2’s by heart (well, at least I do) and most of the 3’s. </p>
<p>skiers-mom, did you guys make that up? I think I’ve heard of it. No “youngin’s” around here though.</p>
<p>Absolutely! We have loved playing Scrabble with our D’s over the years, and they look forward to the annual attempt to beat my brother at the family holiday get-together, hasn’t happened yet! Sometimes we break the rules and let each D put down words in the languages they study (Latin and Spanish respectively), everyone learns from that. The most entertaining version we have played is SDK (Spelling Don’t Kount) Scrabble - H and I played that with friends in our day too. It all started after we saw the movie Foul Play with Chevy Chase and Goldie Hawn. Anyone who saw the scene with the two little old ladies playing scrabble knows what I am talking about…</p>
<p>I couldn’t get my kids to play much Scrabble, but we played LOTS of Yahtzee! We are a bunch of math loving geeks.</p>
<p>My mother in law is thrilled to have me as a DIL … I play lots of Scrabble with her. In the summer, we have a cottage across the street from some of our relatives. My MIL & I play with the relatives. We are mourning the loss of our 94 year old aunt who played even when she could barely see the tiles … and she could still beat us. This summer won’t be quite the same …</p>