Judy Cronin played me in her last game at the Mt Albert club before moving to Nelson. Unfortunately, although we had played a really close game a couple of weeks previously, this time I picked up a lot of good letters and it wasn't a game for Judy to remember. However there was one play that inspired this blog. She had played the word QUITED with the Q on space D8, just 3 spaces below the Triple Word Score. There was already a tile two spaces below that so nothing could be pl

Playing on the internet the other day I got good scores for two words containing both a V and a W, both in the same game. Just like the VW beetle some of those words are a bit odd and worth learning ADVEW - An old word for the verb to view NAVEW - A wild Swedish turnip VAWTE - To vault WAVEY - Not a variation of WAVY, but a snow goose. WAVEYS is OK VINEW - To become mouldy VIEWY - Having odd opinions or views. VIEWIER and VIEWIEST VROUW - A Dutchwoman. Also spelled VROU or VR

Whenever someone starts with a 5 letter word finishing on the centre square I try to think of 3 letter plays to put in front of it to get back to the Triple Word Score On the last club night one game started with the word CLING. My brain failed me on this one because all I could think of was OUTCLING. I tried that when the right letters came along several turns later. That was a wrong word, but I got lucky when my opponent did not challenge. There are 4 words that could have