Constant Bickering

Bette

Joice IS NOT a word!

Matt

I’m not stupid. I was pretty sure that joice was not a word, but I played it anyway. It was a real-enough sounding word that you thought twice about challenging me. If you can rejoice, then you should be able to joice. It was a bluff, and you called me on it, so what’s the big problem?

Bette

Ha ha! Pretty sure? I love it! You weren’t sure if it was a word? When was the last time you used joice in a conversation? I absolutely knew that wasn’t a word and that’s why I challenged you. You thought you could pull a fast one on me. Joice doesn’t even sound right. It sounds like a juicer knockoff you’d find someone selling on a street corner.

Matt

When was the last time you used “qi” in a conversation? I thought so! Yet, we play that word all of the time! Besides, I’m constantly surprised by what we find in the official Scrabble dictionary, so yes, I was pretty sure, but not absolutely sure.

And I was totally going to buy you a Joice. I think I saw one in the “As Seen on TV” aisle at the local drugstore.

Bette

Wow. So, that’s your defense? I’ll be the first to say that I have never used the word “qi”, but at least it’s still a word. I haven’t used the word joice because I know it isn’t which means I would never deliberately play it in Scrabble. BAZINGA!

Matt

You play random two letter combinations all the time! Most of the time, you get lucky, and I either do not challenge you or you happen to pick two letters that make up some obscure word, grunt, or letter in some foreign alphabet.

Bette

Well, maybe next time you’ll decide to either challenge me or actually take some chances with your letters since most of the time (lies!) I get lucky. I usually win, how is that luck? I’ve gotten a lot better and you hate that I play those small words that are worth a lot of points. Well, that kind of is the point. We can’t always try to play words like JOICE! You’ll get challenged!

Matt

While you do keep getting better, you still only win about 50% of the time, which basically means, statistically speaking, that you can’t deduce anything from our records.

The next time I score a Bingo, I’m going to totally joice, and when I win the game, I’m going to rejoice.

Tags: games, scrabble

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