One Hour No Lights One Mean Game of Scrabble
Post written by: beagooddad
Tonight is the night we are all supposed to turn off all non-essential lights between 8pm and 9pm local time. Earth Hour, baby.
The kids will already be in bed by that time so all of their lights will already be off.
BeAGoodMom and I are planning on shutting down just about everything. I bought a couple candles tonight and we are going to try to get our Scrabble on for an hour or so.
I always beat BeAGoodMom at Scrabble but maybe it has always just been a lighting issue. It probably doesn’t have anything to do with me being better at Scrabble or anything. It’s probably the lighting.
What are you planning on doing while you turn the lights out for an hour? Are you just turning off the lights or are you turning off most of your electricity?
That reminds me that I should go shut down the real desktop computers before 8pm.
March 30th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Thanks! Caught your post at 7:50 and did a hurry up shut down of the lights before 8:00 last night. We tried to learn Mai-Jong by candlelight and though we didn’t actually play an official game, we had lots of fun with the interesting tiles. Ironically, about 9:30 a neighbor came by and knocked on our darkend house to tell me the dome light on my car was left on. Go figure!
April 1st, 2008 at 2:18 am
James,
So, you purchased an actual Mai-Jong game? I don’t recall ever seeing one! I game store recently opened in a mall near my house in St. Louis, I should check there. They had the real nice “Pente” games, with the roll-up mat so maybe they’ll have this one, too.
April 1st, 2008 at 7:15 am
Gregg, you can also find a lot of actual Mahjong games at Amazon
April 1st, 2008 at 10:23 am
I feel compeled to defend myself. The reason you always beat me at Scrabble is that you take the easy way out. I put down “animate” You make it “reanimate”. I put down “brain” You make it “brains”. Sure, its winning, but there is no glory in it.
April 1st, 2008 at 10:51 am
Nice try, BeAGoodMom, but you were the first person to do something like that by turning quiz in requiz and then got grumpy when I made it requized.
I would show the official results to show that the point difference was so large that adding onto words could not account for it, but you immediately threw the scorecard away in embarrassment.
April 1st, 2008 at 7:14 pm
I didn’t turn out any lights. In fact, I was probably reading about it on the internets when I was supposed to cut them off.
So what was the score on scabble?
April 1st, 2008 at 9:20 pm
No, Mrs. LIAYF bought it at a yard sale. Someone else who probably used it once, admired the pretty tiles and stuck it in a drawer to collect dust. We are not big board game players, so it may end up in our yard sale in a few years. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.
April 7th, 2008 at 8:21 am
Duck Hunter,
I beat her by between 100-200 points. She’s probably better at coming up with the neat words but I’m much better about putting my words somewhere where they will get a lot of points.