I haven’t played Scrabble in ages, so this weekend when I noticed that Jag had a Scrabble set among his piles of games, I challenged him to a match.

My luck with tiles started out bad and didn’t improve much. It turns out that “Eaaaizt” is not a valid word to describe “a follower of Eaaa”.

This set wasn’t much better, unless I had wanted to work in some kind of “Old MacDonald” reference, or possibly the name of an insurance company.

It later became clear that I should have kept the “G” and that I was subconsciously thinking about biscuits.

Despite being left with an unusable “Q”, I squeaked by for a 6-point victory. Here’s the slightly risque finished board. I wonder if some kind of psychological analysis can be done using peoples’ Scrabble words. In case you want to take a stab at it, Jag was responsible for “nude”, “nun”, and “dirt” and I’m on the hook for “teats”, “bolus” and “pox”. And yes, “gi” and “ria” (Jag), and “ye” (me) are all valid words.