scrabble by myself, kinda sorta

 

Incredible, it was, this game of Scrabble.

No, wait, it's a horse of a different color, isn't it?

AARP calls their game "Outspell", but we all know what it is, right?

It's Scrabble, the game I whip out and play, solitaire-style, whenever bad weather had rendered me without electricity.

With AARP, they like to pit me against an imaginary, nameless, opponent.

Fine by me!

They always - I mean, always - have me play first.

I laid out "s-e-x" and waited.

The opponent passed.

For my second turn, I put "f-e-z" on the board.

The opponent again passed.

For the third play, I placed a "y" at the end of "sex", hoping that might help stimulate some action from the opponent.

Nope!

That was another pass.

For my fourth and fifth turns at this apparent game of solitaire Scrabble, I added an "o" to form "of", then a "d" for "dos", respectively.

Pass and pass was the reaction.

That's when I whipped out my phone to document this round of Outspell.

My sixth word, "q-u-a-d", is shown in green as I had not yet pressed "submit".

That proved to finally be helpful to the opponent, whose board of tiles must have been much more limited than mine.

Still, what a nice first word they played: "d-u-g-o-u-t" - play ball!!!

(smile!)

That lengthy time of no play on their part led to their eventual loss.

Their last formed words were a double with an "i", yielding "hi" and "pi", but leaving them with two tiles yet to use.

My last, and final, words were also a double.

Using my last tile, a "u", I got both "pu" and "cu".

How's that for putting my 25 years of teaching general chemistry to work?

That ties in nicely with my invention, too!

Perhaps that was a little inside joke from the Universe, eh?

Good one!!!

Such a nice way to pass nineteen minutes!

Now, off to the next adventure! 

(smile!)