I had a voice-mail: “Can you play scrabble? I have a set, if you want to come overâ€.
Well, it’s Friday afternoon, right?
So I quickly dashed off the accompanying document (attached).
The table is a 14x14 set of 1cm squares.
A few macros hooked up to shortcut keys do the trick:
Use Shift-Ctrl-Z to clear the board and set all squares to beige.
Normal font is set at TNR 24 Bold. USE CAPS LOCK.
Type in your message (example: "Can this guy play scrabble? Waddya reckon!â€). Note that any characters are allowed in my game.
Use Shift-Ctrl-R(ed), Shift-Ctrl-D(ark blue) and Shift-Ctrl-C(yan) to colour strategic squares. I recommend you colour intersecting words.
Use Red, Dark blue and Cyan to sprinkle a few more around enough to make it LOOK like a patterned scrabble board.
Use Ctrl-Shift-S(equence) to drop in an 8-point sequence field. Don’t worry about the steady increase in points; your correspondent will be too rattled to notice.