The WildWords Game Company is
looking for a few good Scrabble(R) players fluent
in Scrabblese.
Peter Roizen, the inventor of the WildWords
Crossword Board Game, defines Scabblese as
"the collection of odd, short words in the
Official Scrabble Dictionary that never appear in
print media and are never spoken. 'FAQIR' is an
excellent example," adds Roizen who says he
has no idea what it means.
WildWords, unlike Scrabble(R), is played with a
complete English vocabulary with an emphasis on
long words. Special tiles marked with an asterisk
and special board game squares may be used to
represent any series of one or more letters. Thus
the play "QUA[*]IST" could be the word
"QUARTERFINALIST" with the asterisk
representing all the letters in the middle. A
knowledge of Scrabblese is not a prerequisite to
becoming an excellent WildWords player.
"We think many serious Scrabble(R) players
would more enjoy the flexibility and challenge of
WildWords, but we don't know how to approach
them. We simply don't speak their language, and
an English to Scrabblese dictionary does not
exist. So we're having a contest to try to find a
slogan these players will understand. If it were
only Pig Latin, I would go with a translated
quote from a reviewer, maybe, 'ONSTA OREMA UNFA
HANTA CRABBLESA(RA)'" states Roizen.
Contest entries must be a promotional phrase for
WildWords written entirely in Scrabblese. The
selected winner will receive a free copy of
WildWords and a suitable reference dictionary for
playing it.
"You can't play WildWords with the Official
Scrabble Dictionary which contains only about
four percent of the words you might play in
Wildwords," adds Roizen.
Entries must be submitted by November 6th via the
"Contact Us" button at the
www.wildwords.us website and will be checked
against the Official Scrabble Dictionary to
determine their meaning.
"I am hopeful and waiting to see what turns
up," says Roizen, "but I know
Scrabblese is not very expressive as languages
go."
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