I remember the only triple-triple bingo I played over the board (at university) had 3 Us, and it was kind of hilarious. I swapped 6, keeping only a C, and drew BSSUUU. My opponent put down REACTIVE, and then moved the C up to make CREATIVE, saying he didn't want to give me an R in the triple-word lane, but the C was just what I needed for SUCCUBUS, which scored like 150 points... Had he played REACTIVE, there wouldn't have been enough room for me to play it!
@@st.videoss Apparently, it's one of the rarest 8LWs playable without blanks. It's followed only by crazy things like SUCURUJU and SURUCUCU which might not even be valid in TWL.
It has been a while since Will's last update of the better know a letter series. I'd be glad to see a video on the letter Y. It is the only letter in the alphabet that can be used as both a consonant and a vowel. 😄
In the older days of the Wnglish language, the letter W didn't exist, instead the aound the W makes was written as UU (hence the letters name). I wonder how that would have changed scrabbles history if the letter W was never adopted in english.
I actually feel the Y is both a weak vowel and a weak consonant, perhaps functioning as a vowel slightly more often than as a consonant. And a sometimes-deadly weapon despite it. Classified as a consonant due to its point value, by many.
I would love to see a video on the Y too as it’s unique for that. I also am of the seemingly unpopular opinion that the Y tile should be valued at 3 points as it’s more common than FKVW, is a great letter for end hooks, and its dual function can lessen the damage of a vowel or consonant heavy rack
My point changes: K to 4, V to 5 (maybe 6!), C to 2, G to 3, U to 2 (I had it higher earlier), H to 3, J to 10, Z to 8. Distribution changes: remove one G, add one C, remove one V, add one K, remove one I, add one S. Will, I suggest you should make your recommended point and distribution changes after the remaining letters for “Know a Letter” are finished.
Thanks for this and all your other videos, Will! My friend and I have a gentleman's agreement when we play over the board to turn all of the V's and U's into 6 more blanks because we hate those letters so much, hahaha!
@@KeyholeGod Maybe a bit worse, but 1) it's already terrible 2) you'd be more ok with burning a blank for a non-bingo Q play since there are so many more in the bag. You can always make the blank a U!
Can the next letter be S? Everyone knows its power comes from pluralization, but there's got to be more depth to its powers. I'm guessing the S will be five stars. If you could revalue the tiles, what tiles would you revalue and what would be the new values? Here's my revaluing. B - 4 points C - 1 point G - 3 points H - 3 points J - 10 points K - 4 points U - 2 points W - 5 points Z - 8 points Also, [EXPLETIVE DELETED] THE WU COMBINATION!
Halfway through a game, I once played off three tiles, leaving STR?. I drew U-U-U. There was an open "C" on the board, but I missed USUFRUCT. A few weeks later, I lost my marriage, then my job, then my confidence. I have been slowly rebuilding my life ever since.
I had a game recently where i left DEN on my rack, drew EEQ , thought i was dead, and the last tile i drew was a U. Getting my first Q bingo was awesome
I knew that the letter u was pretty bad the moment I saw it in a story written in highlights magazine when I was young. Despite this, the word unusual has three of them... Which ironically describes the vowel itself.
You should make a Scrabble tile tier list. I don't know exactly what it would look like, but I know that S would appropriately be S tier. Not sure if ? should be in S tier with it or in its own SS tier.
Hey Will - huge fan of the channel. Any chance that if you make more of these you could make one on the S or Blank tile? Obviously they're very good but I feel like I can't use them unless I bingo with them, creating some clunkyness on my rack. Would love to see an opinion from one of the best scrabble players out there. Thanks!
By the way, would you ever consider doing subscriber games or something on twitch sometime? I would love to get destroyed by you in a game some time :)
In better know a letter series, the following letters are missing: A, B, D, N, P, R, S, T and Y. Any chances that you would make videos about these letters during future period of time?
