A hard Scrabble existence
Published 11:21 pm Wednesday, April 7, 2010
They’ll be messing with Sorry! next: A new version of Scrabble, dubbed Scrabble Trickster, is scheduled for release soon in the U.K. Among the changes in Trickster, players can use proper names, play words backward and play words unconnected to other words on the board.
Proper names? Backward words? Unconnected? Veteran Scrabble players should consider this an utter travesty. Travesty, played off the e in outrage, double-word score with a bingo gives me 78 points. Your turn.
Unlucky Strikes: A Georgia man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after he escaped from a county jail, stole 14 packs of cigarettes from a nearby convenience store, then returned to the jail, where he was promptly arrested.
The good news for the guy: The famous advertising tag line is being changed to “I’d do 20 years for a Camel.”
Chip shot: Following his self-imposed sabbatical from golf after the revelations about his extramarital affairs, a chastened, if no longer chaste, Tiger Woods returns to golf today to play in the 74th Masters Tournament.
Hundreds are expected to follow Tiger from hole to hole at the Augusta National Golf Club, and those are just his ex-girlfriends.
