@vickibma
I respect your attitude and understand that you don't want to play 'fishers' as you perceive it as a form of cheating.

I play Scrabble because I enjoy word play of any kind such as codewords - and also those puzzles where you have a set of mixed up letters and have to rearrange them into the original words. Or find as many words as you can from a single word. So I treat Scrabble in the same way - I 'fish'. You and I see the game differently!

I don't want to have to learn all those 2-letter words so I like to see them in front of me. That's a big plus for me. Out of interest, I would like to know if you think that the 2-letter word list should be removed on a similar basis to removing the 'Move Strength'?

Following your purist approach further would imply that Lex should also no longer offer the facility for checking if words are valid either!

I can offer a different, but somewhat related, perspective. I play online chess and am aware that my opponents will 'fish' for moves using a chess engine. Also they will deliberately play lower rated players so that their rating increases and they never lose.

Among many other tricks, they will stop playing for a while if they are losing badly - hoping that I will think they have left the game and give up the play. In that case, my time would run out and I'd lose on time (I always wait them out). I play them all, I'm just happy to improve my game by facing whatever comes my way.

In a similar way to chess, why not just be happy with the wins you get IN SPITE of opponents who 'push themselves to play better by 'fishing'. You say you usually win anyway!

IMHO the Lexulous experience (in its present form) is the best online Scrabble experience on offer.

Dear Admin,

May I suggest that some of the forum posts could be safely deleted?

I refer to the ones in which insults are hurled, personal attacks pursued? Indeed, I am becoming reluctant to recommend the site to friends when the posts have become so unpleasant.

Thank you for your kind attention.

@mapmakere
Agreed. Like they don't appreciate the effort that goes into producing all the bells and whistles so we can have fun

Can we have a button to access this forum? Somewhat non-intuitive to have to access via User menu (top right), then Resources - after which the screen shows various dictionary links ... but no link to the forum is apparent. You just have to somehow divine for yourself that scrolling sown will finally reach the forum posts.

I don't understand what this is all about. I've not seen these 'dots' and assumed missing posts had been deleted by the poster.

If these naughty words appear in Google and elsewhere then, surely, Lexulous has no right to censor them.

Are we sitting in a little corner of the web preening ourselves for being "holier than thou"? I hope not.

Any justification for it?

@betterlate1-0

"cant you keep track of what happens in the games without disclosure?"

Clearly there's a distinction between cheating with some sort of Scrabble software that suggests moves and the fascination of looking for a better move when 'Move Strength' says 23%.

In chess, both if the above cases would be cheating because you only have to choose between a handful of moves, say Nf3, a4, Qa4+ or Bg2. The chess engine might then give the respective results as 23%, 45%, 80% and 15%. Then you have a clear message of which variation to check over. It's cheating!

In Scrabble the datum tells you nothing about which combination of letters is optimal, nor where to put them. So I use it and feel that 'Move Strength' spurs me on to find a better word!

Stefan Fatsis beats Scrabble legend, David Gibson in a game explained on this Twitter link. Enjoy!

https://twitter.com/stefanfatsis/status/971215488616460288

“I always did poorly in the SAT verbal. But about 10 years ago a supernatural love for words came upon me. When you get changed, you can’t help it. It’s spiritual.”

Fatsis also writes about another top game here:

https://slate.com/human-interest/2017/08/a-breakdown-of-the-best-game-at-the-north-american-scrabble-championship.html

@A Former User
You appear to be trolling Lexulous, apparently because you had an issue that wasn't addressed to your taste?
You also said you'd left in a huff - so how come we see more posts? LOL

I know this is a serious thread but I had to laugh over something the owners of our beautiful game said on the subject recently.

It seems that more than 200 dictionary words have been removed from the Scrabble lexicon in the past year or so by Scrabble's board game owners, Mattel. A spokesman said:

"I’ve heard the argument that these are just words, but we believe they have meaning."

Er, yes. Quite so!

[https://7news.com.au/entertainment/games/scrabble-bans-long-list-of-words-players-are-no-longer-allowed-to-use--c-2593627](link url)

@lexulous Tile dropping is working fine on Chrome!

How do I make videos to load here? Anyway, it would just show that when I drop a tile in the exact position it should be in, it jumps toa different square.

Many congratulations on all the recent improvements! SOMEBODY has put in a lot of work!

@thatguythere202 said in Word Request - Yakub, Yakubian, etc.:

@mistertoad Are proper names allowed? Jacob? England? English?

Good question. Jacob and England are not allowed, according to Lexulous' US Search option at:
https://www.lexulous.com/v2/gameresources

However, English is allowed - presumably because it is an adjective (more or less?) rather than a proper noun.

There is a page in the forum about this somewhere but I can't find it at the moment. If anyone knows where to find this Lexulous page which has full details of which words are allowed and what are not, please let us know!

@therizzler - I found your post to be very interesting, certainly raises a lot of issues to think about. The 'story' partially concerns the identification of Jacob (Genesis) with Yacub (Nation of Islam). The truth of this story is the subject of a religious debate over the ages. Is it racist or not? I don't know, nothing is clear. Whether this is relevant to Scrabble player dictionaries, I have no idea.

WIKI seems to suggest that Yacub and Yacubian might be offensive to various groups i.e. Blacks, Whites and Jews. So, 'TheRizzler', if you are concerned about racist vibes, perhaps it might be best NOT to include Yacub, Yacubian and so on, at all?

Anyway, that's what I get from the WIKI link which has been provided here. I believe you can edit the WIKI page yourself if you think it's wrong or perhaps provide another link here to illuminate the debate.

Apologies to all concerned for posting about my suspicions. As Pangloss says, apparently the site was not hacked.

@pangloss said in ** Lex site hacked **:

That isn't necessarily a hacking offensive - someone created a profile and used a website as their icon. Nothing nefarious there.

That's a new one on me. I saw many more new users than is customary so that made me suspicious too. Thanks pangloss.

@ofurawe said in May I enlarge the grid?:

Due to my visual impairment, I find the grid to be excessively restrictive. It seems that the standard method of enlarging pages is not functioning.

Hi. Sure it's not an adblocker or something? I just test CTRL+mouse whell and it worked fine.

@b-birney
I think that I can help. Some of the new words are in my post entitled "Scrabble dictionary adds hundreds of words - November 16, 2022".

You can find my post in the Feature Requests because I naturally hope that Lexulous will make sure that we can use them in our games.

(PART 2) of what @mistertoad said in Scrabble dictionary adds hundreds of words - November 16, 2022:

Zonkey joins zedonk among new words using a Z (10 points). The difference between those two wacky-sounding animals, you ask? A zonkey is sired from a male zebra and a female donkey. The parentage of a zedonk is the other way around. Zedonk even has a playable variation: zeedonk.

Zoomer, for a member of GenZ, is also new. Familiar with the Middle Eastern spice blend za’atar? A less common variant, zaatar, is now in the Scrabble dictionary. Words with apostrophes aren’t allowed.

And there’s more where all of that came from:

Oppo, jedi, adorbs, dox variant doxxed, eggcorn (a misheard slip of the ear), fintech, folx (inclusive alternative to folks), grawlix, hangry, matcha, onesie, spork, swole, unmalted, vaquita, vax and vaxxed were added.

Yes, jedi need not be capitalized. Wondering what grawlix means? It’s this: $%!(asterisk)#, a series of typographical symbols used to replace words one doesn’t want to write, usually those that got you into trouble as a kid.

Among other new eight-letter words, the kind that help players clear their seven-tile racks for 50 extra points: hogsbane, more commonly known as giant hogweed. Another: pranayam, a breath technique in yoga.

https://apnews.com/article/scrabble-dictionary-new-words-2effc5627acb3974388b092ebc556cdb?

(PART 3) of what @mistertoad said in Scrabble dictionary adds hundreds of words - November 16, 2022:

In the last year or two, the Scrabble lexicon has been scrubbed of 200-plus racial, ethnic and otherwise offensive words — despite their presence in some dictionaries. That has prompted furious debate among tournament players. Supporters of the cleanup called it long overdue. Others argued that the words, however heinous in definition, should remain playable so long as points are to be had.

Despite home play rules that never specifically banned offensive words, you won’t find the notorious 200 in the Scrabble dictionary, with rare exceptions for those with other meanings.

The new Scrabble book includes at least one old-fashioned word that simply fell under the radar for years: yeehaw.

“Yeehaw is like so many of the older, informal terms. They were more spoken than written, and the gold standard for dictionary editing was always written evidence. So a term like yeehaw, which we all know from our childhood and in movies and TV, was something you heard. You didn’t read it that often,” Sokolowski said.

Yeehaw, meet bae, inspo, vibed and vibing, all new additions to the Scrabble dictionary. Ixnay, which was already in the book, has been promoted to a verb, so ixnayed, ixnaying and ixnays are now allowed.

Welp, thingie, roid, skeezy, slushee and hygge (the Danish obsession with getting cozy) also made the cut. So did kharif, the Indian subcontinent’s fall harvest.

The Merriam-Webster wordsmiths have added a slew of food-related words: iftar, horchata, kabocha, mofongo, zuke, zoodle, wagyu, queso and marg, for margarita, among them.

https://apnews.com/article/scrabble-dictionary-new-words-2effc5627acb3974388b092ebc556cdb?

My three posts here are edited versions of an AP News article:
"Happy hygge! Scrabble dictionary adds hundreds of words"
written by LEANNE ITALIE on November 16, 2022

I trust that Lexulous will add the following new words from the seventh edition of “The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary” to their listings!

(PART 1)
The new words include some trademarks gone generic - dumpster for one - some shorthand joy like guac, and a delicious display of more verb variations: torrented, torrenting, adulted, adulting, atted, atting (as in don’t at me, bro).

Fauxhawk, a haircut similar to a Mohawk, is potentially the highest scoring newbie, he said. Embiggen, a verb meaning to increase in size, is among the unexpected. (Sample sentence: “I really need to embiggen that Scrabble dictionary.”)

Compound words are on the rise in the book with deadname, pageview, fintech, allyship, babymoon and subtweet. So are the “uns,” such as unfollow, unsub and unmute. They may sound familiar, but they were never Scrabble official, at least when it comes to the sainted game’s branded dictionary.

https://apnews.com/article/scrabble-dictionary-new-words-2effc5627acb3974388b092ebc556cdb?

@moonriver

I notice that you had a run of issues back in August, including this latest one. So maybe things were resolved in August and now they've begun again?

Have you had any email issues apart from the ones with Lexulous?

I'm not an expert or anything but, in general, I would say that it is best to resolve what you can with computers and either just accept the rest - or try new sites and/or new software.

I hope you can solve the issues and, whether you do or not, I hope you don't let it get under your skin. Good luck!