5 most HILARIOUS phonies in Scrabble history!
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- Опубликовано: 1 янв 2024
- A lot of folks don't realize that playing fake words, or "phonies," is a big part of Scrabble at the tournament level. Many a game has been won by a clever phony that got by an unsuspecting opponent, and just as many games have been lost by humorous, and sometimes embarrassing, failed attempts to sneak a phony by.
In this video, we'll look at what I believe are the 5 most hilarious phonies of all time. Some have meanings you could potentially infer, and some are just downright ridiculous. But what they all are is utterly hilarious, so you won't want to miss them!
All phonies vids: • Phonies!
Matthew Tunnicliffe's best phonies: • 5 OUTRAGEOUS nonwords ... 
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Tetiart:
1: A person who designs and/or builds tetrahedrons
2: Collective noun for a group of tetrahedrons
3: The art of sculpting tetrahedrons.
Conrad Shawcross had made several pieces of tetiart; one of them looks like a broken icosahedron.
Casual game amongst classmates but someone bingoed with WEDDINGS and one of my classmates tried to extend it to WEDDINGSCAR because he was adamant that that was the name of the long white car that people ride in at weddings.
Lol! Could that also be something you get if you try to cut the wedding cake but accidentally cut yourself instead?
@@mackmeller I swear the most fun part about phonies is coming up with definitions for them.
In all fairness all of us in that scrabble game were in 5th grade, but it was still funny. It didn't get hostile but he was so sure that was a word and the rest of us were just laughing, even us 10 year olds could tell that word was ridiculous!
"Only Andy really knows what a VOUCINNINI is. The general consensus among the Scrabble community is that it is some kind of pasta." LMAOOOOOO one of the greatest lines in lexicon history. VOUCINNINI is like some legendary, mystical being, similar to the Lockness Monster.
If anyone does want an answer as to why there aren't any Bobetahs running around anywhere:
Lions and tigers can interbreed to form ligers and tigons - they're both part of the same genus, Panthera, and probably split off from each other around 2 million years ago. It's honestly something of a surprise that they interbreed as well as they do.
Cheetahs and bobcats, on the other hand, are in related but different genuses, and diverged from each other more like 5 to 6 million years ago, and so the chances of their DNA and reproduction matching up are lower.
Almost all cat species do have 38 chromosomes, so it's not completely impossible, and they're similar sizes. But the added bonus that cheetahs live in Africa (and are vulnerable to extinction) while Bobcats live in an entirely different climate in North America, makes them unlikely to get jiggy. And I don't think there's a great deal of scientific research cash waiting to see if bobetahs are possible.
There's gotta be a feline biologist/zookeeper/scrabble enthusiast out there somewhere who'll make it their life mission to breed a bobetah
Very informative, thanks so much! I knew someone would be able to enlighten me and their fellow viewers on this truly fascinating topic :)
Also what would you call the offspring of a male cheetah and a female bobcat? A cheetcat??
MAKE IT SO
This is kind of a tangential question, but do you happen to know if dogs and foxes can breed? My German Shepherd looks like a hybrid of both.
Try not to laugh challenge: I lost when you tried to decipher what a LOURERER could possibly be 😂😂😂. Then, I lost again when you put up the picture of the VOUCININI pasta box.
Haha glad to hear, that was part of the goal with this vid!
For "lourerer", I think the closest thing that could make some sense is if he was thinking of laurer, an archaic synonym of laurel, which can be used as a verb, i.e. to crown/award someone, so laurerer/laureler could be someone who crowns/awards someone. Not sure if any if these variants would've been valid in Scrabble, though 😅
Laurer* and laureler* are both invalid, but that's still just as good as if not better than "one who one who lours" haha!
@@mackmellerhow about LOITERER? Only word I can think of that has the “ERER” ending.
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My brain has been lourerering at me non-stop ever since I watched this.
so... your brain is a lourererer?
To Andy's defence, he played LOURERER, not LOURERERER
Someone needs to make a video of themselves saying "LOURERERERERERERERERER..." with as many -ERs as possible until they run out of breath
9:26 I did once play and get away with SANGUI(N)I* in a club game, thinking it could reasonably be a type of pasta
Sounds like pasta vampires would make.
Some other phonies you covered which got me laughing that you didn’t mention.
TARPANIER, SPAMELLIAs, OVERTALL, HARDSNAKE, WELMOCE (Only hypothesized and not actually played), DISETCED, JEWELsS, AEROSHIFT, LAMITROL, TREEHILL, SAXIFoRM, MIOAW, RYRONTAs, PINTABREW, and NG.
Also you put the video in the playlist twice.
I'd imagine there are no Bobetahs due to Bobcats being native to North America and Cheetahs being native to Africa.
Obviously, the sooeeying is when someone attempts the "siu" celebrate. Valid word to me😂😂
Lol!
My PC recently shut down forever, and since I had all of my distractions installed or otherwise readily accessible there, I had to find something else to do. Upon locating and promptly dusting off my old laptop I started to solely focus on Scrabble (NA) for the first time ever -- partly because no other games would run on it, but also in big part due to discovering such great RUclips content on it.
I've been binge-watching Will Anderson's, Joshua Sokol's and, of course, your content like a madman, and almost any time I'm not playing or studying the game, I'm watching NASPA tournament games without skipping a single second. Lately one of my greatest sources of excitement are new Scrabble videos, and I really want to commend you especially for your unmatched upload frequency and superbly informative and entertaining content! This kind of content really builds a sense of community and keeps the scene alive. Thanks for that!
Sorry to hear about your computer, hope you're able to get it fixed soon! But thank you so much for your support and kind words, really do appreciate your support, and I think I speak for all of my fellow Scrabble content creators in saying loyal viewers like you are why we keep making videos!
For me the funniest part of these phonies is your input on them. The way you pronounce "sooeeying" 1:32, the graphic for lourerer 6:22, the flat delivery of "for (EFF)S SAKE Matthew" 15:57, it all came together so amazingly
Haha thanks! Not gonna lie, I was especially proud of the pronunciation of sooeeying 😂
An animal biologist is a zoologist.
My favorite club play from many years ago was a nice old lady who extended BORED to HOVERBORED*. Bless her soul.
Again mate, love your videos, don't even have to watch the whole thing and I know it will be entertaining.
Thanks so much, really appreciate it! :)
This was so great!
Juraj would still play EFFS/SAKE. It is more points than trying to make TETIARTS
That's true, and it's certainly unlikely for him to actually play TETIARTS, but if Matthew's alternative is something that's simply a guaranteed loss it's worth a shot!
My grandma used to make excellent VOUCINNINI with KWYJIBO sauce 🍝
We just didn't know anybody who worked for the dictionary.
😮 Mack's joining in on the Scrabble history!
Also I managed to find the sooeeying play and already started laughing before the reveal 😂
Haha awesome!
A little more analysis than was necessary . . . I totally was thinking SOOEYING* and was 99.9% sure it was no good, but had no path to the win that I saw. Why the extra E I have no idea . . . Sadly with an empty bag none of it made any sense, so I agree - hilarious.
Since Ed is only trailing by 5 in the first position, is there any way he can somehow score enough points (with a valid play) to outrun Joey's OM?
It turns out he can tie (!) with cONGEE hooking CRUCK, and only that!
Are there any good examples of words being used as fakes/ challenged off the board in the past that are valid words now? I'd bet there are more than a few games whose results would be potentially flipped, and I'd love to see 'em!
Hmm, that's a great question. Especially with a new dictionary update coming in just about two months, I'm sure there will be soon if there aren't yet!
For the last game, I was thinking of hooking NOGARITE onto the NOG of row 15 as a phoney :D. Wonder if that sounds more plausible (I'm thinking some kind of ore) than TETIART
Oh how I'd love to play against a complete stranger or be significantly better then I can bluff people with hilarious fake words :)
A bluff is futile when your opponent knows all the words in the English language.
Watching this made me wonder, has anyone ever played a valid word thinking that they were playing a phony? I imagine that would be much harder to prove, but could be possible for new players who are still building their word knowledge.
14:32 GENIUS
More like Andydy Hoangngngn :P
Just wondering, does Quackle accept custom boards? (I have a chaotic 19x19 board)
It does as long as it only involves the standard set of bonus squares (2,3,4 WS and LS)! Feel free to send me a picture :)
@@mackmeller I sent you a picture (as a link) on Woogles :) see if you can take on Quackle with this crazy board
I wonder if there were any words played in past game when it was a phone but is now a valid word.
Probably so, and likely even more soon as they're updating the dictionary again in a few months!
Much as LOURERER is ridiculous, there is one such anomaly in the dictionary. FRUITERER and FRUITER both means someone who sells fruit.
lourererer
On the mobile app auto translate thing, apparently this translates to "laurels" 😂
voucinninnini
A lourer is a material, unrelated to the actual "lour" word, like "jasper," "ginger" or even "silver." Therefore, a LOURERER is someone who works with lourer. Nowadays, the preferred term is probably lourersmith.
To me, the phoney tetiart looks a little like tertiary. :)
15:59 AHHHHHHHHHHH
surprised he didn't try the "tetiarite" bingo (...perhaps some obscure mineral, one might think?) which has the same strategic potential with the "s" hook re-challenge
EDIT: lol i did not think about this long enough to realize it's 1) not a bingo and 2) would obviate the time pressure since it'd use all tiles and end normal play - thanks to the reply below for encouraging critical thought LOL
The problem is it's an outplay so free challenge for Juraj! Another problem is Matthew only had 6 tiles so it's not a bingo :)... that being said either way you can't get away with that technique as an outplay, but I like the creativity!
@@mackmellerah yes, of course there's no time pressure to play rather than challenge if the game is over right there otherwise - and of course i should have done some counting :P
Soogeeing
Did ED not have a 25 point play? Maybe below PE?
Nothing there would be enough, but it turns out he could've tied (!) with cONGEE hooking CRUCK, and only that!
1:46 BAHAHAHAH
Sooeeying might be accepted by an uneducated Arkansas Razorback fan!!!
why are the players unrated>???
They're not actually -- it's just how Woogles displays it when you use the board editor
I thought lourerer was more lourer.