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by SquareWheel 4916 days ago
Been playing Scrabble casually for about a year, and I've found two letter words are where you get the most points. If there's a vowel beside a triple letter, often you can stick an X on there and get it 6 times. And X's have a ton of two letter words, at least in the dictionary I've been using. So maybe they're "offensive", but they seem to be a great way to score points.
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That's what makes them so offensive. If you just got a tiny advantage from these obscure words it would be fine, but with the tournament scrabble ruleset, any player with higher strategic skill but who hasn't bothered to rote-memorize the wordlists will lose. Which makes it an unfun game.