PASSING AND WEIRDOX GAMES
ON PASSING:
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Passing IS a strategy... Just as playing only two tiles when you can play more is a strategy. Just as not clearing when you can, because you are far behind, is a strategy. Expecting me to make a stupid play against myself (oh... I DO that alright, but never on purpose) instead of passing seems, quite simply, asinine to me. And the 'pretend attempts' by the people who say they would never pass, are just pathetic.
ON WEIRDOX:
For as long as I have been playing there have been variations on the game. Now there are more and the reason there are more is because most of us have been playing a long time and the new formats present a challenge to us. If you think it is because we are such poor players that we need the playing field leveled, think again. There's a whole lot more to this game than spelling. Some of our superior spellers are not so great at strategy and so they complain about the "weirdox" games as they have tagged them. I say this: If you want to show your superior spelling abilities off, go get in a spelling bee. If you want to truly excel at WORDOX, which is the game we are playing, learn to play all the variations well. I really don't know how some of you can be so smug about your abilities when you refuse to step out of your comfort zones.
I disagree with mums. I don't think the many variations make it easier for the new player. I think it makes it harder because they have so much to learn. The new games like A-B-C and some of the others are a challenge for those of us who have been around a long time, so I know they have to be for the newcomer.
I thought about that the other day when I was playing Barefoot. She is learning the game and she's learning all the variations. She is going to do some serious butt kicking in the future and you people who refuse to play anything but regular ox won't stand a chance against her, superior word knowledge or not. Again, and as simply as I know how to put it... If you want to just compete using your spelling abilities, you're playing the wrong game. Strategy is a part of the game of wordox and the variations step it up.
These are my personal opinions.
Thanks for listening,
Bluberry50
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Sometimes I barely know what game I'm playing, and usually manage to forget a rule or two, so I don't know which game is better than any other. Can't go by "easier" necessarily because they're all a challenge for me. I do feel "bad" sometimes because I know I'm not always the challenge some of you would prefer because you're all so good. But whenever I get that feeling, your reminders that "it's just a game" keep me plugging away. Hopefully, before long I really will be kicking those butts Blu mentioned! In the meantime, thanks to all of you for your kindness and your patience, I'm having lots of fun.
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