@pangloss I'd have a hard time dredging up an exact date, but my first Lexulous ID would have been created right back at the time when Literati died on Yahoo Games. That was, what, 2015 or thereabouts? A number of other players in Lex. are also former Literati people so they would have a better idea than I. I lost my old ID during the transition to the new board and can't dig up any old records.
@mapmakere interesting suggestion. But if your opponent seems oblivious to it and you (being the good friend that you are) want to warn them about it, then it seems likely that you are more on the ball than they are, and you probably don't need the dinger to alert you. Eh?
@mapmakere Back in Antediluvian times there used to be an Abort option: If both players agreed, the game would be canceled and wouldn't appear as a win or a loss for either player. I imagine that's what BL is wishing still existed.
@bettyl I'm not sure if this is at all relevant to your situation, but what I have noticed beginning this morning is that when I log in to Lexulous, instead of defaulting to the Live section (where I always play), the first screen that comes up is Email games. From there I can just easily click on the Live tab and get taken to the place I am used to. Not sure why this is happening now.... but it is! (odd)
@rjlwins How are you receiving these invitations? For many of us, we log into Lexulous first and that makes us available for invites from other players who are logged in at the same time. Not sure how yours is working.
@mapmakere same here. well, right-clicking brings up a menu, in which one of the options is Emoji. On the rare occasions when I feel like using one, I tend to go with Windows/period.
@karen-taylor It appears that this happens when players are joining games via the mobile app. I have had it happen frequently at my own hosted tables, and my policy these days is simply to delete the game before anyone has moved (or after the first move), which in either case doesn't affect the bottom line. It is a little irksome because it means you will have to set up a new hosted table. But the app players apparently don't have a choice; the site will sit them down at any available game!
@tracy-wambolt it would surprise me if that option ever becomes available, though it would be a fascinating thing to try! Presumably you would redesign the board like this only by prearrangement with the other player. But it would introduce a new wrinkle to the game if experienced players found they had to be on the lookout for new bonus square positions. Interesting idea!
@swimflower is it usually after you win a game that people block you? Some people are highly irritable and will do that.
@henrryyy What does Minecraft have to do with it?
Anyway, the proposed solutions do seem to have a ring of plausibility about them; but they don't really strike at the root of the question. When two players play each other several times in a row, Lexulous automatically alternates the starting player. The concern here is that some people may be game-shopping, dropping into other people's tables where they know they will get the first move and then moving on. See earlier responses in this thread.
@haftoplay Once upon a time it was possible to be seated at two tables simultaneously. Back in the days of Yahoo Literati, you could even play multiple games at the same time, or have two tables open in hopes of having a better chance of getting someone to join you for a game. I am not sure if this was ever possible in Lexulous, though. Certainly not since they introduced the current version, v2 (sadly).
@bonhi Yes. Of course this doesn't help much if you are not in the habit of playing a series of games with the same opponent. Not everyone does it that way!
@pangloss 
Note under where it says "Rating Change."
@unskoolbookshop When the window opens up telling you someone has requested a game, it will show how many points you will gain with a win, how many you will lose with a loss, etc.
@gabosky there are some extremely frequent players who often inhabit the game lobby at https://www.lexulous.com/v2/ ... you can probably find a game at most any time of day in there. But be warned, people can be rather competitive!
@stephanie-schmitt I am only a player, not a Lexulous employee or any kind of insider, but it does seem that in general, the number of rating points one gains or loses after a game depends on the relative standings of the two players. Thus, if you beat an opponent whose rating is much lower than yours you will only receive a small ratings bump. If you beat someone with a higher rating, on the other hand, they give you more "credit" because you faced more of a challenge. It's far from a perfect system but it makes a certain amount of sense. I have not looked at your record but if you check some of those games you have played you may see that relative ratings did help determine the points lost/gained.
@englerman The wordfinder site I consulted says:
Is Que a Scrabble Word?
Answer: No
Despite the fact that it would be a useful word for the game, “que” is not a valid word to play in Scrabble. It commonly stands for “Quebec.” It is also the Spanish word for “what,” an appropriate question to ask when one finds out that the word isn’t legal in Scrabble.
YMMV...
@carol-ann-nasta I think EVERYONE responding on this thread--with the exception, I guess of @bonhi (whose response above was not very helpful either)-- has been a PLAYER, not staff. We have all been in the forums helping each other try to figure out how the newer version of Lexulous works for more than a year now. The fact that you thought we were staff--and that none of us, I think, realized that-- may explain why the conversation has taken the turn it has!
@carol-ann-nasta The forum is set up so that when one person responds to any comment in the topic, everyone who has said anything on that topic automatically gets an e-mail notifying them of that response. Don't ask me why it's set up that way; it simply is. If you prefer not to keep hearing from various people whose responses you find unhelpful, you can change those default settings so that you only see the conversation if you deliberately click into the forum. I did that myself after finding there were hundreds of e-mails waiting for me! I think the setting is in your Profile under Notifications.
@dan that makes sense, and leads me to ask, what is up with all the "deleted" posts in forums? Are we to assume that they were all considered irrelevant and/or offensive, and the admins are culling all our posts?