I’ve played 1000-some games with two friends by email the past few years. I don’t bother much with rankings/leaderboardsand so on, but I understand the concerns of those who DO. If the competition becomes “My AI is better than YOUR AI.” there’s no point (and no fun) playing. ARE there guidelines/rules as to what search tools (if any) are legit? If so, where do we find them? LEXULOUS is obviously DESIGNED to enable word-searching AS you play (eliminating the risk and fun of CHALLENGING words as one can in F2F Scrabble), so is anything offsite of Lex dodgy? Illegal?

Well the chat room is finally back on. It was down for about 2 weeks or so. Any explanation as to why?

I'm late in replying. For me, "focus" is only an issue in the moment of actually having to find a move. I only play slow-place games (though when playing chess I enjoy both blitz and correspondence). My tips for you are to concentrate on the following: -do you have letters to make common letter combinations such as 'ing', 'ion', 'er'? -which "hooks" has your opponent left you on which you can make words? -check that you haven't left possibilities for your opponent to get triples etc. -go for a lower score if the choice of other words allows your opponent too many opportunities. enjoy all of your games even when you lose (as we all do at some point)!

I have so many pop up ads I can't delete them to get to my game

@retired2017 we request you to please recheck once.