MyLeague: Scrabble 2

Still.... View
by QrazyQat on June 13, 2002 at 22:55:14 PDT

...there has to be a great story behind CONNIVENT, and I for one MUST know it. I'm not joking. If I ever get to play a VERY obscure, VERY low-probability nine, I will give up the game, join the severest monastery that will have me, and spend the rest of my days contemplating the significance of this miracle, for it will be nothing less. I am aware of no instance of any player playing a nine-letter bingo as simultaneously arcane (converging and touching, used esp. of stamens or an insect's wings) and improbable (with three N's along with CV there are at least 13,000 nine-letter words that are more likely to come up, and the fact it contains only two 2-letter subwords doesn't help) as CONNIVENT. It doesn't even seem that plausible that it was found using electronic assistance. Who cheats so thoroughly they look for nines? Maybe it was just an extension of CONNIVE, but still, if it was the best play available it's definitely one for the Scrabble annals. Who apart from maybe a dozen players in the world is prepared for stuff like that? So seriously, I'm curious and I think anyone else who takes this game seriously would be equally curious to know the whole story behind such a landmark play. Where did you learn the word, what was the position, was it the best play available? (If such details aren't forever etched in a player's brain when they've made such a play, I can't imagine how anything else would stick there.)The story should be told, and it's just the sort of thing this forum should be for. I don't mean any of this the least bit facetiously.
P.S. believe it or not MONASTERY has an anagram. So now I've learned my ultra-obscure 9 (albeit a relatively commonplace one in terms of Scrabble probability)...just have to sit back now and wait for my chance to plunk it down.
- Re: Still.... View
  by RapierDuck on June 14, 2002 at 04:44:09 PDT
  
  The funny part is that these connivers think that everyone is like their parents, Ozzie and Edith.
- Re: Still.... I hear You View
  by RapierDuck on June 14, 2002 at 04:20:34 PDT
  
  hahahhahahaha they connive and you vent