In the past week I have been trying to watch less tv, so Matt and I have been developing new hobbies. For example, last night we played Taboo (less fun with two people, but still enjoyable) and Speed Scrabble.
If you have never played Speed Scrabble, write me a comment and I will tell you how to play it. It' much more fun than normal Scrabble, in my humble opinion.
My other new hobby...which may not last more than a couple of weeks, but I'm having fun with it for the moment... is Myspace. Myspace is one of the American cultural phenomena which seems to have arisen entirely during our time in the Czech Republic (along with Paris Hilton, The OC, and the whole grain diet revolution). I never even heard of Myspace until about a year ago and I was convinced that it was definitely not for people like me. But I've given in and I'm actually finding it quite enjoyable.
Things I like about Myspace:
*adding a pretty background
*trying to find people to be my "friends"
*actually having contact with my sister Sarah via computer (this is a very big deal! :-)
*using a bit of html again - haven't done this since college
Other than the keeping in touch with Sarah aspect, I would probably loose interest in the other above mentioned things about Myspace, largely because I really am the sort of person who has a small, close knit group of friends, rather than the type who is up late at night ready random people's internet profiles and trying to build up my social connections. In fact, I have been bombarded with "friend" requests from complete strangers, none of which I have accepted because their profiles revealed them to be fairly scary individuals with whom I would rather not be associated.
The genius and perhaps the sickness of Myspace, however, is that I actually considered accepting some of those people's invitation, solely based on the fact that I feel bummed when I see that other people have, for example, 165 "friends" and I have (at last count) 16. Oh well... I never aspired to be Miss Popularity, so I simply remind myself that 16 very good friends are certainly more valuable than hundreds of complete strangers who pretend to be friends for the sake of a number.
So, that's my ramble for today.
3 comments:
Yeah, I'd like to know how to play speed scrabble. Sounds interesting.
Thanks.
Ok, so here is how you play Speed Scrabble:
1) Take out all the Scrabble tiles from the bag and lay them face down on the table.
2) Each person playing starts with 5 or 7 tiles (depending on how hard you want the game to be - 7 is easier).
3) Everyone plays at the same time and you don't use the Scrabble board.
4) Look at your tiles and try to arrange them into a word or crosswords, using all the tiles.
For example, if I had G I N A S, I could do:
G
A
SIN
or GAINS
5) Once one of the players has incorporated ALL of his or her tiles, that person says "Take one!" and everybody takes another tile. This new tile has to be incorporated as well until somebody uses all their tiles and again says , "Take one!"
6) The game occurs at a fast pace with everybody trying to incorporate all their current tiles until all the tiles have been taken. At that point, the first person to finish their crossword (using all the tiles they have) declares that they are finished and everybody must stop.
7) Then, you count up points. You get the face value of the points in your crossword, counting the value of tiles that are part of two words twice. I.e.
C
FACE
R
(The "A" counts twice)
8) For those who did not finish first, they have to subtract the value of the tiles that they weren't able to incorporate from their total points.
9) NOTE: Blank tiles don't count for any points. Also, at any point during the game, you may take apart your puzzle and try to start again with different words (if you get stuck with the current configuration). This can be dangerous if someone else is close to finishing, but sometimes its the only way to make your letters fit into one big puzzle.
10) The winner is the person with the most points, which isn't necessarily the person who finished first because it depends on the complexity of their words and how close the others were to finishing.
Thanks! That does sound fun. I'm going to print that out and put it with our scrabble game.
BTW, Happy Easter! :-)
Melissa
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