> Also, in response to Howards post, when my sister was little, she used to play noughts and crosses by adding boxes on the side when she was in danger of losing. Board games are the most fun when you flagrantly disregard the rules!!


I've invented a fun way to play Scrabble, which unfortunately works best in Norwegian, since we concatenate words to make new ones. (For example, instead of "turkey sandwich" we say "turkeysandwich" -- in Norwegian, of course).

Playing Scrabble with this in mind, it's prefectly okay to form new words by adding to another as long as you can come up with an explanation for what the word means. Like, if "boat" is on the board, you can add "wife" to get "wifeboat" (as I said, this works better in Norwegian) and explain it's a boat for the wife in the family. Add "shoes" to get "wifeboatshoes", and you get the special shoes recommended for wifeboat sailing. Etc. You get the funniest words (and explanations), and it's much easier to get something played and get a LOT of points. :-)

Trav"with modifications, it should work in English too"holt