dominate spouse during game night if you're intellectually superior?

[Anonymous]

OP, you would be able to play the most perfect and pristine Scrabble games of all time if you just ditched the marriage to go play with yourself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You are insufferable OP. You make a lot of negative assumptions about your wife if you are for real. You seem smug and superior. Hoe do you know that you are beating her? Maybe she is letting you win since she knows you have a fragile ego!

Because she rage quits a simple game like Scrabble after losing by huge points every single game and gets angry at the words I play and their placement because she can never score high while nearly every move I make is for at least double digit points.

I can't help that after many games of Scrabble she cannot learn simple strategy, defense, and rack management. Like, it really doesn't take genius level intellect to learn that you should try as hard as possible to never level a vowel next to a bonus spot, because when you do, it means a consonant (high point tiles) can often be used next to them in two directions for huge points. Other simple stuff like trying your hardest to maintain a balance of 4 consonants and 3 vowels in your rack she doesn't even pay attention to. I know she never even thinks about rack management because she constantly wastes turns trading in tiles. After many games of Scrabble, I don't think she realizes yet how a letter like C is also a fantatic defensive tile, because when you have no options but to lay down next to a bonus spot on the board, a C can be placed next to it so that the bonus spot can only be used in one direction since there are really no two letter words that can be played that end in C, thereby limiting your opponent's points

Little stuff like above is so, soooo basic. I use those strategies every game to win by a lot, but she hasn't caught on yet. If you leave a I open next to a triple word or letter score spot, don't rage quit when I play a word like QI in two directions for 60+ points.

You ... you could share these strategies, you know. With the person you love? Make the gameplay better for both of you?

Why?

People have to figure out these things for themselves. That's the only way to get better rather than providing them a mental crutch every time.

So, did you come up with all of this on your own, or did you learn some of it in a class?

Taking classes is weak, OP. Being taught things means you didn't figure it out by yourself.

Came up with it on my own.

Seriously, you need a class to figure these ideas out?

All it takes is playing Scrabble like 2 times to learn that leaving a vowel open next to a bonus spot is a terrible mistake, because your opponent can play high value consants next to it, often times in two directions.

If I put a consonant next to a bonus space, the vast majority of the time it means you can only play a vowel next to it if you're trying to play a word so you get scoring in two directions. Vowels are all only worth 1 point, so damage is limited. This is so,.soooo easy to figure out. Then you can use very difficult consonants like C to clog up strategic areas of the board since two letter words basically are impossible with C. It will frustrate your opponent when they get stuck and manipulated into opening up the board for you because you can force them to play in an direction you'd like to play in irder to hit more bonus spots.

You don't need to read a textbook on Scrabble. This stuff should be obvious.

You came up with mathematics all on your own, before you ever took a class?

Or are you just wrong, and won't admit it?

PS: Take counting, as in tracking points for words. You mean you came up with numbers all on your own?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You are insufferable OP. You make a lot of negative assumptions about your wife if you are for real. You seem smug and superior. Hoe do you know that you are beating her? Maybe she is letting you win since she knows you have a fragile ego!

Because she rage quits a simple game like Scrabble after losing by huge points every single game and gets angry at the words I play and their placement because she can never score high while nearly every move I make is for at least double digit points.

I can't help that after many games of Scrabble she cannot learn simple strategy, defense, and rack management. Like, it really doesn't take genius level intellect to learn that you should try as hard as possible to never level a vowel next to a bonus spot, because when you do, it means a consonant (high point tiles) can often be used next to them in two directions for huge points. Other simple stuff like trying your hardest to maintain a balance of 4 consonants and 3 vowels in your rack she doesn't even pay attention to. I know she never even thinks about rack management because she constantly wastes turns trading in tiles. After many games of Scrabble, I don't think she realizes yet how a letter like C is also a fantatic defensive tile, because when you have no options but to lay down next to a bonus spot on the board, a C can be placed next to it so that the bonus spot can only be used in one direction since there are really no two letter words that can be played that end in C, thereby limiting your opponent's points

Little stuff like above is so, soooo basic. I use those strategies every game to win by a lot, but she hasn't caught on yet. If you leave a I open next to a triple word or letter score spot, don't rage quit when I play a word like QI in two directions for 60+ points.

You ... you could share these strategies, you know. With the person you love? Make the gameplay better for both of you?

Why?

People have to figure out these things for themselves. That's the only way to get better rather than providing them a mental crutch every time.

The beatings will continue until morals improves. Also gameplay. This home is not for the weak!

The most rage inducing play is when you drop the word 'CWM' on the board for rack management purposes when you have too many consonants. Jaws drop when you play that word for huge points and people have their brains shocked when they learn it is a legit word to play and is in the dictionary. It is simple strategy to know the few key words in existence with no vowels so that when you get stuck with a rack with too many consonants you can work your way out without having to burn a turn for tile trade ins. I've never seen such a rage inducing scrabble word like CWM.

ZA is a close second for inducing rage, especially when someone makes a big mistake and leaves a triple word or triple letter score space open with an A next to it so that you can potentially play ZA for 60+ points. But I think CWM takes the crown for rage.

[Anonymous]

No, not rage, OP. Not rage. Just a desire for something better than this.

May all people involved in this story find a path to their best lives. May that wife be very, very clear about what she desires and how to get it.

You, too, OP. You too.

[Anonymous]

Joke's on OP for only being able to bag a wife who is that much more intellectually inferior.

[Anonymous]

This is a gross question, but the obvious answer (which makes me think you’re not as smart as you think), is to play games of chance, like Trouble or Sorry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How many of you are much smarter than your spouse? What do you do during game night if you're in a situation where you are a league above your spouse in intellect? Let them win? Tonight, we were playing a game we've been playing for the past two months. My wife has 'won' every game we've played over that time (prob 13 times we've played). Little does she know I've let her win every game the entire time. Tonight, I was tired of it and then played for real. She was shocked she lost 4 times in a row once I really started trying this time. To put this into context, I have a graduate degree in engineering from a top school while my wife studied polysci. It's a game that requires stats and probabilities as well as discrete math principles (obviously stuff she's never even heard of). Once I started using concepts I learned in school like the pigeonhole principle, ideas from graph theory, and basic stats/prob I started to wipe the floor with her in the game. She ended up getting quite angry at losing the entire night and stormed off to bed without saying goodnight.

If you are far more intellectually superior than your spouse, what do you during game night? Purposefully let them win because you know you can pretty much beat them 100% of the time? Stick to games only that are 'fun' and that are built in random change so that very little strategy is involved? Or show no mercy and mop the floor with them every time until they cry uncle and refuse to play the anymore? I already ruined Scrabble with my spouse, because I beat her over 36 times in a row (played for real the entire time).

What makes you think that the fact you studied math and statistics makes you intellectually superior?

Because I'm going to go out on a minor limb and conclude that it takes a little bit more intellect to get through doctorate level engineering mathematics, quantum electrodynamics, etc. and then get grilled for hours by top professors in the world on those subjects so that you can pass your oral exam. That's a bit harder compared to just doing an undergrad political science degree. And also based on doing original research that has to be published.

It proves nothing more than the grad student wanted to get a grad degree.

[Anonymous]

She didn’t rage quit because she was losing. There is no way your condescending, patronizing arrogance didn’t show. That’s why she rage quit - because you are an awful person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also, your contempt for your wife is ugly.

There's no mercy in Scrabble.

There's no crying in baseball.

[Anonymous]

I thought Bobby Fisher was dead, yet here he is posting on DCUM

[Anonymous]

So do you love her, OP, or do you just love beating her, and the gloating that comes with that?

What do you love at all about her, if she is this pathetic thing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also, your contempt for your wife is ugly.

THIS

He is also a disgustingly arrogant person. I bet she loathes him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also, your contempt for your wife is ugly.

THIS

He is also a disgustingly arrogant person. I bet she loathes him.

Maybe. But she loses in board games!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also, your contempt for your wife is ugly.

THIS

He is also a disgustingly arrogant person. I bet she loathes him.

Maybe. But she loses in board games!

She might well lose the battle but win the war, in the bigger sense. Time will tell.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You are insufferable OP. You make a lot of negative assumptions about your wife if you are for real. You seem smug and superior. Hoe do you know that you are beating her? Maybe she is letting you win since she knows you have a fragile ego!

Because she rage quits a simple game like Scrabble after losing by huge points every single game and gets angry at the words I play and their placement because she can never score high while nearly every move I make is for at least double digit points.

I can't help that after many games of Scrabble she cannot learn simple strategy, defense, and rack management. Like, it really doesn't take genius level intellect to learn that you should try as hard as possible to never level a vowel next to a bonus spot, because when you do, it means a consonant (high point tiles) can often be used next to them in two directions for huge points. Other simple stuff like trying your hardest to maintain a balance of 4 consonants and 3 vowels in your rack she doesn't even pay attention to. I know she never even thinks about rack management because she constantly wastes turns trading in tiles. After many games of Scrabble, I don't think she realizes yet how a letter like C is also a fantatic defensive tile, because when you have no options but to lay down next to a bonus spot on the board, a C can be placed next to it so that the bonus spot can only be used in one direction since there are really no two letter words that can be played that end in C, thereby limiting your opponent's points

Little stuff like above is so, soooo basic. I use those strategies every game to win by a lot, but she hasn't caught on yet. If you leave a I open next to a triple word or letter score spot, don't rage quit when I play a word like QI in two directions for 60+ points.

Yikes