That Chloe game was hilarious. WANTLESS* and then you getting away with RE(INFLICT)* leading to a tight endgame. Fun to see BRITCH* in the Joel vs Bobby game. Also, Jackson might have been thinking of XYLIDIN as well as the other sources of confusion that were mentioned. I can make a video about the 🌯 :)
I would have been 100% sure RUNED was invalid, but only because I've tried to play it multiple times on scrabble go only for it to not let me. Runed just feels like it should be a word.
26:13 I'm guessing he was thinking of "xylene" which is a chemical compound. Some compounds allow for the -ene and -in to be interchanged (i.e. carotin and carotene)
This sometimes frustrates me about Scrabble. RUNED is listed in like 3 different public dictionaries I just checked, including Miriam-Webster, Oxford, and Collins.
9:30 I was shocked to see it (especially when your opponent had already revealed her whole rack earlier)... wonder if Will and the other commentators groaned after seeing that play. I would've loved it if Chloe had hooked it with toiled/deba(c)le because a debacle that indeed was. (But hey, debacle takes an S hook later so that would've been fun! I could definitely see Josh Sokol playing that)
RUNED is definitely a word meaning something that has runes on it i.e. a runed hat. Turns out it's a Collins only word, even though it is also in the Merriam-Webster dictionary so not sure why it's not in the US scrabble version. Being from the UK it was confusing seeing something I know is a word getting challenged off. With my relatively limited word knowledge I can't imagine the number of Collins words I know/could define that aren't in the US scrabble dictionary is very high 😄
Being from the USA and familiar with the word I found it pretty shocking as well given the number of Scrabble legal words that are foreign, fairly rare abbreviations, or otherwise something your 3th grade English teacher would yell at for for using.
@@qazzaqstan Yeah, the scrabble dictionaries are absolutely horrendous. Despite its reputation, scrabble is not a vocabulary game at any but the most casual of levels, which is pretty sad imo. I don't know if there's a solution, let alone one that expert players would accept after studying the current dictionaries for years.
@@galoomba5559 Yeah, I think it is mainly that casual Scrabble players probably shouldn't care about the Scrabble dictionaries and competitive players just be okay with the weird inconsistencies but it feels wrong.
@@qazzaqstan Well, there is a wide spectrum between "has never looked in the dictionary" and "knows all the words" that would benefit greatly from a better lexicon. As an intermediate player myself, i'm constantly frustrated by the juxtaposition between the hyper-obscure variants from before english spelling was standardised (and even confirmed misspellings by lexicographers!) and the non-inclusion of not-even-that-new common words or technical terms. I have to study words no one has said in 500 years, but i lose a turn for playing a word i use regularly? Come on.
I'd be interested to view a full summary of the game between Matthew and Josh, if you're willing to upload a separate video. I know there have been higher scores over time. But scoring nearly 750 in one game is not something that occurs every day, even if you're Rigel.
I miss the days when double challenge was the default mode on ISC. I don't think you could even play rated with void then. You could get away with a lot of plausible-looking words, especially neologisms and loanwords. For example, I never knew COSPLAY, CONFIG, CHIPSET, and STATEFUL weren't valid then (STATEFUL still isn't); I don't even think ANIME and ADMIN were good (but SYSADMIN was good). Foreign words have always been highly inconsistent in both their acceptance and spelling. I've gotten away with SAKURA and MIKO (both invalid to this day) so many times, as well as words that people could be too afraid to challenge, like LYCORIS and MYXOZOA (both still invalid).
