Bit of an add-on to the last chapter...

Minor spoilers for the latest chapter of Sunset's Little Twilight, so if you have yet to read it, you may want to avert your eyes. For everyone else, some extra material down below.

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A lot of people seemed to like the scenes I wrote of the group playing Scrabble. Personally, I was afraid of using the actual name, since I don't really like it when brand names appear in stories, like one fic I was reading where apparently Legend of Zelda exists in Equestria (even if Link does live there...). This is why Coke is no-name brand cola, Twister went unnamed and the group were playing "a colorful kart racing game" when it was obvious that I was referring to Mario Kart. The only reason I actually called it by name was 1) I couldn't come up with a better name, and 2) Scrabble is owned by Hasbro as well.

While i was planning this out, I actually worked out a mock game to ensure all the words I mentioned lined up correctly. Now, since several words were required, i didn't dish out random tiles and instead just tried to come up with a word each turn. Also, for this example, no one ever passed or traded tiles.

Without further ado, here's the final board layout and the turn order:

SS- Road - 5 p
R - Cider - 9 p (X2 E)
TW - Hydra - 23 p (X3 H, A)
FS - Antlion - 24 p (X2 Word)
SS - Oranges = 18 p (X2 Word, X2 G)
R - Salon = 5 p
TW - Around = 7 p
FS - Nest, Oranges = 5+9 = 14 p (X2 S)
SS - Alicorn = 30 p (X2 L, X3 Word)
R - Tile = 8 p (X2 Word)
TW - Quill = 26 p (X2 Word, Blank L)
FS - Shipping 70 p (X2 I, P) BINGO
SS - Star = 10 p (X2 R)
R - Give = 16 p (X3 Word)
TW - Moon = 7 p (X2 O)
FS - Emu = 15 p (X3 Word)
SS - Destroy = 12 p (X2 S)
R - Quake = 57 p (X3 Word, X2 U)
TW - Six = 18 p (X2 X)
FS - Tow = 15 p (X3 Word, Blank O)
SS - Jaw = 13 p
R - Fame = 11 p (X3 E)
TW - Zax = 19 p
FS - Owe = 14 p (X3 W)
SS - Bat, To = 15 + 2 = 17 p (X3 Word)
R - Tin = 3 p
TW - Bet = 5 p
FS - Vet = 7 p (X2 E)

Remaining tiles; x1 E, x1 F and x1 i

Comments

[Malandy]

Link needs fixing. Some extra characters seem to have been added to the link.

https://i.imgur.com/SanxP3D.png

[Black_Knight]

Thanks for the extra bit, but avoid inserting image from imgur.com. For asinine reason, they have decided to bloc their images on this website.

[Tatsurou]

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I've found a way to get around that, by copying the link, opening a new tab, and pasting the URL. Imgur reads that as someone directly going to the image, rather than being linked to it from here.

[PoisonClaw]

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There, I went and hosted the image elsewhere. Did that fix it?

[Malandy]

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Yes.

[fausticornrules]

You worked out a game of Scrabble in a story you wrote, for the sake of completeness?! Damn I love this website!

[matt s0101745]

FS - Antlion - 24 p (X2 Word)

SS - Oranges = 18 p (X2 Word, X2 G)

R - Salon = 5 p

TW - Around = 7 p

FS - Nest, Oranges = 5+9 = 14 p (X2 S)

SS - Alicorn = 30 p (X2 L, X3 Word)

Uh, did you mean for the first "oranges" to be "orange" without the S?