> > 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!!
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> 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).

If my rapidly-failing memory serves me correctly (too much revision) German works in much the same way. I heard once that the longest word in German is the translation of "the star on a submarine officer's cap." I only saw the word once, and it took up most of the line. Imagine what German spelling competitions are like...

Phil-"Oh no! I've got pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis!"-bee