Lost at Scrabble? Blame the fairies.
Shana had a cheese and onion roll for lunch. After three bites, however, she declared it ‘horrible’. After that, she ate a dictionary instead. Yes, I know it sounds unlikely, but how else do you explain Shana’s later performance in our afternoon Scrabble game? I managed a couple of bingoes (UNRUSHeD at the start of the game, and HERRIES at the end), but Shana chalked up an impressive three seven-letter words: AcTIONED, InFORMAL and SlEEVING.
For stats addicts, Shana’s final score was 443, and mine was 369. Despite my having all four of the ‘big’ letters (Q, Z, J and X) I found myself held back by too many consonants or too many occurrences of the dratted U on the rack at once.
I blame the ‘Scrabble fairies’. They shuffle the letters at night when no-one is looking, you know.