Perhaps they could shorten chess games by White declaring their opening, then starting at the everyone-agreed-upon move where it stops being by-the-book?
Back to Scabble & WwF ( 2% / 98% split )… I’d like an opinion on my strategy… I look first for TW,TL,DW/DL spots first, then scan rack for possible letter(s) to place immediately adjacent; if found, find longest word. Calc score; if WwF doesn’t show at least 90% of possible score, repeat. If I’m in a must win, repeat until I find the 100% word, or I get timeout warning (5 days?) or a nudge from my opponent.
Only if I’ve exhausted all the bonus tiles, I then look for words in my rack. Shuffle, shuffle, keeping an eye out for words and almost words.
And a few obvious strategies like play parallel worlds. I’ve never played competitively, so I’ve no idea what I’d “rank”. And real Scrabble is rarely played by me anymore; it’s really WwF now. My SO accidently watched an episode of Hoarders mid-pandemic, and a lot of stuff was tossed. Managed to keep a travel-style Scrabble at least.
In fact, I think my best WwF move was buying it for $0.99 a long time ago. Still don’t get ads. Had a hell of a fight when I moved from IOS to Android. I’m starting to get notifications to upgrade to something new, but I’m avoiding that at all costs.
