Wiktionary:February Competition 2014

WT:FUN competition edit

For this competition, we will be playing a variety of a board game. The board is identical to a Scrabble board, and the tiles used are identical to the ones used in English Scrabble. The rules are based on Scrabble, but modified to allow more "words". I'm assuming that everyone knows the basic rules of Scrabble, if not - look at this.

Modifications to the rules edit

Acceptable words
1. Any word in any language that uses Roman script and that passes WT:CFI is accepted. Spaces, capital letters, hyphens, punctuation, diacritical marks etc. are allowed, but for the sake of gameplay, are ignored when being put on the board. So, the word alitayttaa will be accepted as alitäyttää is a word. The words lookupto, YMCA, top-heavy are, therefore, valid too. Letters such as œ may be used as either o or e.
2. Words not using the Roman alphabet are also valid, provided they are properly transliterated according to the general rules of the language. Hence, bystreje is allowed, as быстрее is a Russian word.
Scoring: As multiple players will play with the same letters at the same time, the scoring system must be modified.
1. Every round lasts for a day, or at least until the time when the Gamesmaster is next online after a period of 24 hours.
2. With the seven tiles, players must make the word with the most points. Points are awarded in exactly the same way as in normal English-language Scrabble. Players should email their words to the Gamesmaster in such a way to show the starting place and the direction, e.g. [H7 across: bystreje]. Every player gets a corresponding score which will be placed in the points section.
3. The highest-scoring word will be placed onto the board, and then new letters will be taken out of a virtual bag for the next round. In the result of a tie, the first player to submit gets their word on the table.
4. Play continues thus until all the letters have been used up. The player with the highest total score is the winner.
Contesting words
1. Anybody is free to contest the validity of any words. Any words played which are later deleted from Wiktionary will incur a penalty of receiving nil points.

Board edit

The board at the end of the game:

Gold - Triple word
Pink - Double word
Purple - Triple letter
Cyan - Double letter

	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	J	K	L	M	N	O
1				S₁	A₁	P₃	O₁	N₁	I₁	T₁	*₀
2				T₁					B₃	U₁	M₃	P₃	I₁	T₁	T₁
3				R₁			U₁
4			R₁	E₁	W₄	I₁	N₁	K₅	L₁	E₁
5				L₁			T₁		O₁	C₃	A₁	*₀	I₁	O₁	N₁
6				I₁		J₈	I₁
7				C₃		I₁	E₁
8	W₄	A₁	A₁	Z₁₀		F₄	R₁	E₁	X₈		R₁	O₁	D₂	E₁	A₁
9						F₄	E₁	T₁	I₁	D₂	O₁
10			S₁	H₄	E₁	Y₄	D₂			A₁	L₁
11			V₄	O₁	Y₄					U₁	A₁
12		L₁	A₁	N₁	E₁	S₁				G₂	G₂
13	M₃	I₁	N₁	G₂		O₁	Q₁₀	U₁	E₁		E₁
14	E₁	R₁	N₁	S₁	E₁	H₄
15	V₄	A₁			H₄	A₁	B₃	O₁	D₂

Points edit

Points are awarded as above. The deadline is normally by the end of the day (UTC).

Example edit

On a blank board, with letters R - 1 J - 8 F - 4 A - 1 G - 2 S - 1 M -3

Bob - H6 down - ARMS - 12 points
Dave- E8 across - JAMS - 26 points
Ladylove988 - H4 down JARGS - 42 points
Sockpuppet9923 - H4 down - JMARsFG - 0 points (invalid word)
Maddog44 - H4 down - FARMS - 28 points

In this case, Ladylove988's word JARGS is placed onto the board, after she adds the word jargs to the dictionary.

Competition edit

Abbreviations or Initialisms
Symbol	What it represents
SB	SemperBlotto (talk • contribs)
BOTL	Back on the list (talk • contribs)
Kenny	kc_kennylau (talk • contribs)
Wikitiki	Wikitiki89 (talk • contribs)
Equinox	Equinox (talk • contribs)

Bolded plays are the ones worth the most points, which are put on the board.

Feb 1 edit

F₄	X₈	D₂	R₁	D₂	T₁	E₁

Kenny - H8 across - TRED - 10 points
Equinox - F8 across, "FREX" - 32 points
SB - A1 across (changed to H8 across) - FEX - 26 points

Feb 2 edit

Starting at 17:00 UTC

E₁	I₁	D₂	D₂	J₈	F₄	T₁

Kenny - H4~H8 DOWN: jidde - 23 points
Wikitiki - G7 down: TRIED - 8 points

* SB - F6 down - JIF - 29 points

- BOTL - F6 down - JIFFED - 38 points

Feb 3 edit

Starting at 18:15 UTC

E₁	I₁	D₂	D₂	Y₄	F₄	T₁

Wikitiki - G7 down: FRIED (also forming IF at F7 across) - 23 points
Eq - FETID at F9 across, also forming JIFF, RE, ET, XI - 43 points
Kenny - F6~F10: APPEND SB: JIFFY - 29 points
SB - I6 down - DEXIFY - 22 points
Metaknowledge - FIFY starting at F9 across - 0 points (used F twice)
- BOTL - h9 across: FYD also forming EF, XY - 35 points

Feb 4 edit

Starting at 18:20 UTC

H₄	V₄	D₂	O₁	Y₄	E₁	S₁

EQ - VYES at E10 across, also forming JIFFY, REE, ETS - 53 points
Wikitiki - C10 across SHEYD (transliteration of Yiddish שייד), also spelling JIFFY and RED - 54 points
Kenny - F10~H10:YES (F6~F10:JIFFY, G8~G10:REE, H8~H10:ETS) - 49 points
SB - D10 across VOYS (also making JIFFY and RES) - 50 points
- BOTL - F10 across - YODS (also making JIFFY, REO, ETD, XIS) - 64 points

Feb 5 edit

Starting at 18:40 UTC

V₄	N₁	L₁	O₁	Y₄	E₁	N₁

Wikitiki - H7 down: LETNY (Lower Sorbian "lětny" or Slovak "letný"), also forming SHEYDN (שיידן, plural of SHEYD) - 21 points
Equinox - VOY at C11 across (38 points)
SB - G11 across ENVOY (also making REDE) - 27 points
- BOTL - VOY at C11 across (38 points)

Feb 7 edit

Starting at 1500

I₁	N₁	L₁	S₁	A₁	E₁	N₁

SB - D12 across SENNA (also making HOS & EYE) - 30 points
Kenny - D10~D14: HOLAS (16 points)
Eq- LANES at B12 across (also forming SVA, HON, EYE): 34 points
Wikitiki - SALINE, also spelling SET and AXI (22 points)
- BOTL - C12 across - AISLE (also spelling sva, hoi, eys - 34 points

Feb 8 edit

Starting at 16:52

I₁	N₁	R₁	N₁	R₁	M₃	G₂

Equniox - MING at A13 across, also making LI, SVAN, HONG: 38 points
SB - A12 down GRIM (also makes GLANES) - 36 points
Wikitiki - A12 down GRIM (also makes GLANES) - 36 points
- BOTL- A12 down GRIM (also makes GLANES) - 36 points

Feb 9 edit

Starting at 22:00

E₁	E₁	R₁	N₁	R₁	H₄	S₁

SB - A11 down ESMEH (also making SLANES) - 40 points
Wikitiki - A14 across: ERNSEH (rare last name - Ernseh), also spelling ME, LIR, SVANN, HONGS (61 points)
Equinox - SMEH at A12 down, also making SLANES: 37 points
- BOTL - SHERNER AT I10 acorss, also making XIS, DH - 94 points with the 7-letter bonus

Feb 11 edit

Starting at 08:00

A₁	B₃	V₄	G₂	L₁	H₄	D₂

SB - E15 across - VAGH (also making EV and RA) - 40 points.
Equinox - A15 across: VA (also making MEV, LIRA): 43 points
- BOTL - I10 across - VHB (also making XIV, DH) - 44 points

Feb 12 edit

Starting at 15:00

O₁	B₃	A₁	G₂	L₁	H₄	D₂

SB - E15 across HABOD (Haböd) (also making EH and RA) - 37 points
- BOTL - G4 down ABOHRED - 29 points

Feb 13 edit

15:00

O₁	O₁	U₁	G₂	L₁	E₁	Q₁₀

Equinox - LOQUE at H7 across (+ LET, OXI): 29 points
SB - F13 across OQUE (also making SORA): 31 points
- BOTL - J10 across QUO (also making DQ): 64 points

Feb 15 edit

Starting 16:00

E₁	O₁	A₁	G₂	L₁	R₁	E₁

SB - K8 down ROLAGE (rôlage) (also making FETIDO) - 24 points - added as it was the first word submitted (new rule invented on the spot)
Equinox - H7 across GALORE (+ GET, AXI) = 24 points
- BOTL - I14 across - GOLEARE (golearé) also making EGD - 75 points inc. 50 point bonus.

Feb 16 edit

Starting 15:30

E₁	O₁	D₂	A₁	E₁	E₁	E₁

SB - K8 across RODEA - 21 points
Equinox - REEDE at K8 across = 21 points
- BOTL - G5 down - ADORED, also JD and IO - 22 points

Feb 17 edit

Starting 18:20

E₁	U₁	T₁	I₁	N₁	E₁	E₁

SB - M3 down UNITED - 16 points
Equinox - G3 down UNTIERED (also JI, IE) = 23 points
- BOTL - M3 down UNITED - 16 points

Feb 19 edit

Starting 10:15

E₁	W₄	R₁	K₅	I₁	L₁	E₁

SB - C4 across REWINKLE - 90 points inc. 7-letter bonus
Equinox - WERK at H1 down (+ UR, NK) = 61 points
- BOTL - M1 down - WRINKLE - 38 points

Feb 20 edit

Starting 12:00

Z₁₀	R₁	S₁	T₁	L₁	I₁	C₃

SB - D1 down STRELICZ (Hungarian surname to follow) (also REWINKLE) - 110 points inc. bonus
Equinox - ZIRGS at H12 across (also ZU, IE) = 73

Feb 21 edit

Starting 13:20

T₁	O₁	N₁	I₁	A₁	*₀	P₃

- the * is a blank

SB - D1 across - SAPONITE (final E is the blank) - 77 points
Eq - ANTIPOT at I3 across (final T is the blank; also AL, NE): 73 points
- BOTL - A1 across POISSANT - 122 points

Feb 22 edit

Starting 1545

A₁	A₁	T₁	T₁	M₃	P₃	W₄

SB - A8 across WAAZ - 48 points
Equinox - PATZ at A8 across = 45
- BOTL - WAMZ at A8 across - 54 points

Feb 23 edit

Starting 11:45

B₃	U₁	T₁	T₁	M₃	P₃	I₁

SB - I2 across BUMPITT (also IM, TU, ?EM? - 89 with bonus
Equinox - BUMP at L11 down (+ AB, GU, EM) = 34
- BOTL - H1 across BUMPITT (+NB, IU, TM, EP) - 107 points

Feb 24 edit

Starting 08:30

A₁	N₁	*₀	I₁	O₁	C₃	O₁

SB - O1 down OTOCONIA (blank is letter "O" at O5) - 36

* Equinox - I5 across OCAsION (the Spanish word) also LO EC = 72

- BOTL - I5 OCASION - 72

Feb 25 edit

Final round, guys!

A₁	U₁	G₂	{{{4}}}_-1	{{{5}}}_-1	{{{6}}}_-1	{{{7}}}_-1

Kenny - J9~J12 DAUG (also forming AL, UA, GG): 20 points
Equinox - AGU at L11 down (+ AA, GG, EU) = 20
SB - M1 across = GUT (also making GI, UT and TT) - 0 points (there's no T to play with, invalid)
- BOTL - M1 across - AUG (also making AI, UT, GT - 25 points

Final standings edit

Please declare yourself winner!

By my calculation (adding all scores regardless of which words made it onto the board):

Back on the list: 38+35+64+38+34+36+94+44+29+64+75+22+16+38+122+54+107+72+25 = 1007

SemperBlotto: 26+29+22+50+27+30+36+40+40+37+31+24+21+16+90+110+77+48+89+36 = 879

Equinox: 32+43+53+38+34+38+37+43+29+24+21+23+61+73+73+45+34+72+20 = 793

Wikitiki: 8+8+23+54+21+22+36+61 = 233

Kc Kennylau: 10+23+29+49+16+20 = 147

Equinox ◑ 15:56, 26 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

And thanks to BOTL (or whatever he will be calling himself in the future) for a good game. Maybe we could have a repeat match with somebody else running it (volunteers??) - then BOTL could enter it properly. SemperBlotto (talk) 16:01, 26 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I declare SemperBlotto as the winner, as I didn't count myself taking part properly. I dedicate my non-victory to User:Mglovesfun, for whom I created the game. He was a master Scrabble player in his heyday. A pity he couldn't have joined in to give me someone decent to play against ;). --Back on the list (talk) 18:22, 26 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Now, can I think of a competition based on Monopoly or maybe Cluedo? ..... SemperBlotto (talk) 22:19, 26 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]