Scrabble and cheating.

I don't know if I mentioned in the past about how much I LOVE my iPhone?  Well.  I LOVE my iPhone.  I love the apps you can get for it.  I love the part where it holds my music and doubles as an ipod.  I love getting my email on my phone, texting, GPS, the camera, the CamWow! camera (now that has produced a good bit of laughter in our home), the books - the bible, nook, ibooks; I love the sky view app!  Now that is pretty dang cool too!  You can see the stars in their constellations.  I highly recommend this app.

But my favorite things to do are the games.  Yes.  I like a few games.  When I say a few, I mean A FEW!  I like solitaire, fruit ninja, and now, Words with Friends.  Words with Friends is like Scrabble.  You can hook up with friends from facebook and other media outlets.  We love Scrabble at our house.  Generally it is reserved for the winter months because what else is there to do at 5:30 p.m. when it's pitch dark outside and either raining or snowing?  NOTHING.  So, we play Scrabble.

However, there is one little snafu.  It's name is Rodger.  And he is a purist.  In our home there is no "cheating" with Scrabble.  By cheating I mean, there shall be no use of a dictionary to aid and abet in the playing of said Scrabble game.  I mean, who would even have the nerve???  If you want to know if such and such is a word before you play, then you'll have to play with someone else!  Oh, and he is rigid!  Cutthroat, really.

So when I bought the app Words with Friends, I was so excited!  I could play Scrabble with some friends and do it one on one.  With my friends!!!  Does it get any better?  I think not.  AND, bonus #2: you go at your own pace.  So if I play my word at 10 a.m., my Scrabble buddy can take however long it takes them to align the words properly and get the best score.

Here is where my balloon was burst.  Enter Mr. Purist.  When I was telling him about the game, he promptly looked at me and said in a very matter-of-fact kind of voice, "Well that is an awful game.  Everybody can cheat by looking on the internet for the best words."  Yes.  He said that.  Do I care if my friends look up words?  Nope.  Don't care.  I'm still trying to see how that is cheating.  I do think that he brought this anomaly into our marriage.  That wasn't part of the pre-marital counseling questions we went through:
"Do you have an idea of how many kids you'd like to have?"  "Do you know when you'd like to start a family?"  "Do you squeeze the toothpaste from the bottom of the container or from the top?" (for the record, we have a "his" and "hers" toothpaste going on.  Saved us that problem!  HA!).  "Do you use a dictionary with Scrabble?"

Yea.  It wasn't there.

The moral of the story is this:  Make sure you iron out your scrabble differences before marrying that special guy/gal.  Could save you years of counseling!

Tammy

p.s.  I was in the middle of a game with a friend and he sent me this message that said, "I think you're using a dictionary!  LOL!"  I just got that message before I posted this blog!  Hmm.  Is he watching me over my shoulder???  Does his phone have a tracking device that sees me???  I know these phones are pretty cutting edge, but watching me play the game?  I'm scared now.

p.s.s/p.p.s (which is it??  I can never remember...)  This is what CamWow can do for YOU!