The Dark Balloon

A weblog by Hao Lian.
A terrible secret guarded by golems.
A note that thanks you for being born, all those years ago.

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Scrabsolute domination.

This is my winning Scrabble against a level 6 Scrabulous robut. As you can see, I won by 150 points, and the robut—already dyslexic and anorexic and all sorts of other ic’s—committed suicide. Highlights: I played “quine + here”, “quine” again for the extra sexy, “pond (triple) + to + pin”, and “ere + ley (triple)”.

It’s the final round. I have four As, an O, and a Z. Impossible to clear my voluptuous rack, right? Wrong. Dead wrong. I played “ag” and then “aga” and then “zag” and then “za” and then “of + ou.”

International Scrabble association, I’ll take my gold trophies now please.

[(2008 July 31, 2!) .]