@fiona-smith The dictionaries on here are full of obscure words and a few errors. You might have a look in the Collins dictionary. For instance, about "jedi," it says:
"jedi in British English
NOUN
a person who claims to live according to a philosophy based on that of the fictional Jedi, a caste of wizards in the Star Wars series of films by George Lucas, US film director"
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/jedi
(I'm amused that it says jedi was popular in the 1700s!)
Thanks everybody. Oops, I should have made the title clearer:
She can't move tiles in her rack. (I assume she can't drag them around in the rack.)
I'll update here after I talk to her.
A friend has been having this problem for a while now. She can't move tiles in her rack. Otherwise she can play fine.
I suggested she try on a different browser (Chrome) and she said it still happened. (BTW it's a windows machine.)
Thanks.
@dan said in Delete some i's!:
Lexulous already has 1 less of each vowel compared to Scrabble. I don't think it would be too smart to deviate even further from Alfred Butts' original idea. I think the problem is the randomizer algorithm on this newer version. It does like to dump a bunch of the same vowels in your rack in a way that rarely happens in face to face games. The algorithm on the old version didn't seem to have these issues. Perhaps the devs could look into improving it.
Scrabble:
E ×12, A ×9, I ×9, O ×8, U ×4Lexulous:
E ×11, A ×8, I ×8, O ×7, U ×3
Interesting. I wouldn't have guessed the difference from Scrabble! However, Mr. Butts created his tile pool so long ago, I wonder if the letter frequency of normal English has changed since then?
I agree that the game seems to have too many I's and U's!
@dan I was just thinking, how about a keyboard-shortcut to resign the game? It could also start recording audio at the same time to be auto-posted here! hahahahahaha
I think it would be nice if they added keyboard shortcuts for most if not all of the mouse actions. Like for instance, spacebar used to shuffle your rack.
As for passing, I think a better option might be to have a dedicated pass button always visible, because people don't want to accidentally pass if they hit the wrong key!
@jrp32 Interesting! Wikipedia says "it is dialect to the eye, rather than to the ear."
Better, are you saying the site has been hacked?
Also, I don't understand why you post publicly and then jump on Map when s/he doesn't understand you. Your first post certainly was cryptic!
Better, I don't know you, but if that was happening to me, I'd get a new username, abandon my old one and try to change my behavior a bit so people would leave me alone / not recognize my new ID.
Also, the censor button is your friend.
I see that in Collins it's marked "NOUN ACRONYM FOR..."
and in MW it's labeled "abbreviation." Prolly why it's not in the word list. Nice word, though!
@roymccoy said in Recommend addition/removal of words:
@mistertoad said in Recommend addition/removal of words:
... It has the tilde in mañana but NOT the one in señor ie it accepts senor but not mañana! Go figure.
I figure MW screwed up (on SENOR, not MAÑANA).
I'm no linguist, but I would bet English has borrowed many words from other languages and left the accent marks behind.
Déjà vu?
This is a minor thing, but I don't understand why a logged-in session times out so quickly? Just now I was playing on the main website, and clicked to open 'my stats' in a new window, and had to log-in again, even though I was still active in the main lex window!
@betterlate1-0 said in Black Cross?:
@roymccoy I am annoying and you just proved why. You do not like the truth or facts. You find it fine that are rude and crude and apparently bully others to get your way. I point it out you censor me. Have a good day
Better, I don't really know Roy, but he doesn't seem like a bully to me.
And you'll probably take this the wrong way, but you would be doing yourself a favor if you thought about and edited your sentences before posting. Like "You find it fine that are rude and crude" -- what was that supposed to mean?
As for the plus sign in the middle of the board, do you people sit and stare at it? Star or plus sign? No big deal to me!
@rowdy3112
DIJON mustard is named for the city and is still a proper noun.
Burgundy has lost it's properness! 
I bet the French would be mad that champagne is valid and I bet the Italians would be mad that Asti is not since it means it is less popular. Am I muddying this up with wines? Haha
@caroline-russell said in Recommend addition/removal of words:
@lexulous Please add the word Gaelic. This is the language that is spoken in Scotland, and just as Welsh or French or many other languages are allowable words, I do not understand why Gaelic is not included.
I believe that your examples are of languages that are also verbs in English. Like for instance "japan" is allowed because it means "to give a high gloss to" but "Japanese" is not allowed because it is a proper noun.
@pangloss said in "Fast game"?:
@anexparrot Hi annexparrot, in the future you might not want to mansplain things unnecessarily. You may call that an email game but I don't. I'm using it on my phone and it's not timed. I get no emails related to the game rather I get a push notification and I open the app.
And as far as the rest of your comment, you don't seem to understand my question. People who play games they call fast but only play once a day to me is not fast. I'm asking what people think fast means. You telling me what others do doesn't really answer that question does it?
WOW what a touchy person! Maybe your reality is different, but what you were describing are called on the website EMAIL GAMES.
I was trying to be helpful regardless of how you view it, but no worries, this is the last reply you will receive from me about anything.
@bernie-mower said in time to play first word:
@betterlate1 I didn't realize I could do that without forfeiting .Thanks
While there won't be a rating change, I think there may be a limit on how many games you can delete without something happening?
@pangloss said in "Fast game"?:
Hello all. Greetings from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US. I'm curious what people think fast game means? And I'm not talking about timed games, I'm referring to playing on my phone. I think a fast game should be relatively quick between moves, say one to two minutes, five at the most. I just joined two "fast games" and one player moved immediately and now it's been an hour, the other not at all.
Just curious that's all.
Thanks.
Hi Pangloss, in the future you might want to clarify that you're talking about email games. In my experience those speed 'ratings' have no meaning whatsoever. Some people who have posted 'fast' games play once a day.
I have to admit that I also have wondered sometimes whether people were cheating by observing my game to see tiles. It has happened so rarely that I don't really worry about it.
i have to laugh at this post, the watcher is the same for everybody playing LOLLL it's a robot, what a plonker!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What are you talking about, a robot? I don't think robots observe on this site!
This looks like the bug where two games get started at the same time for you. You would think it would be easy for them to fix..