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I'd starting working on a co-op #wordgame in the year of the void (2020). It was a mashup of #scrabble & #tetris and though the idea seemed like it'd be fun, the gameplay felt too slow or too fast. On top of that, the logic I implemented for checking strings for valid words 1/5
was expensive and prevented players from easily making the words they wanted to make. For example, the only way to make the word RATES would be to place RA_ES and then hope you get the T by the time you needed it. 2/5
So the #unity project sat in its folder for a few months, until last week, when I had a couple of ideas for it. I was supposed to have ideas for #sandsofchaos, but of course that didn't happen. Need idea for A? Here are three ideas for B. Thanks Brain! 3/5
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3-30-20

Great timing. Dispatched as envoy to A. Cen. 4 at height of Crown Fever season: doesn't bother Centaurs much, but is deadly to humans. So instead of fêtes and soirées, it's quarantine and Solitaire. Worse, Centauri's Spring is prettiest for light years!

#hardshippost
[#hardshippost is a story I'll be doing in daily epistolary for the duration of the crisis. Stay tuned for more from A. Cen. 4!]
3-31-20

A Lieutenant in the Corps, 3 degrees in Diplomacy, but the closest view I get of the Centaurs is them galloping in the distance. Worse: I've dealt >400 hands of Martian Klondike over the past 2 weeks, and I've got the sneaking suspicion I'm cheating…

#hardshippost
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For no apparent reason, I have this Aviance perfume jingle rolling around my brain. Are you with me, daughters of the ‘70s?
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You remember: “I’ve been sweet and I’ve been good/I’ve had a whole full day of motherhood/ But I’m gonna have an Aviance night!” She’s shucking off her dish gloves and yanking off her bandana... and a few spritzes later... Image
...she’s fragrant and ready for this guy. Because Aviance. Image
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It’s an excellent day when the word “fanfaronade” pops up in an advisory from one of @NPR’s editors. 💯 (Attn: @PeterSokolowski @BCDreyer) Image
I can't be the only one hoping to have AADEFNN on my #Scrabble rack next time my opponent lays down FARO.
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Mom anxiety level: high. Chloe’s on the livestream at the school Scrabble championships. She’s bingoed twice so far: INSTATED and LOITERED. Wait, now it’s three! PReDATE.
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Opponent has bingoed with BROWNIES , RATOONED, and CALaSAYA. This is serious.
Final score: Chloe wins 463-416. This is not your grandfather’s #Scrabble game. Image
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(Also: cool use of the word “complexifier”)
However, and sadly, “COMPLEXIFIER” does not appear to be good in #Scrabble. (Unless you’re playing in French, that is.)
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BUSINESS LESSONS FROM SCRABBLE | I won a game of #Scrabble over the weekend. I was down by 30 points, but played the word, logjam, on triple word and double letter spots to earn 50 points. #Business #Entrepreneurship
Another day, I was leading in a game of Ludo and had 2 seeds left. My boss was lagging behind, but then he won by pecking my 2 seeds before I could get home. Isn't that like life? Those ahead of you don't always win and vice versa.
My Scrabble game taught me a few lessons about business:
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Permettez-moi un petit #thread, pour vous montrer que vous êtes très certainement en train de passer à côté du plus grand exploit cérébral du siècle (et qu'il se produira - ou non, mais ça m'étonnerait - ce soir).
Ce Monsieur au regard filou s'appelle Nigel Richards. Au #Scrabble anglophone, c'est LA star. 3 fois champion du monde, il a remporté à 11 reprises le plus prestigieux des tournois mondiaux, l'International de Thaïlande.
S'ennuyant dans sa langue natale (ouais c'est un peu fastoche au bout d'un moment ; un dico, t'en as vite fait le tour), le mec s'est mis en tête d'apprendre le dictionnaire francophone par coeur. Il s'est donné 9 semaines, ce qui est raisonnable.
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