Line #37 PlayingWith/ScrabbleBabble


1	'''Basic Trope''': Someone makes up a word and plays it in ''TabletopGame/{{Scrabble}}'' [[BlandNameProduct or an obvious knockoff]].
2	* '''Straight''': Sarah and Billy are playing Scrabble. Sarah needs to get rid of some excess high-scoring letters and plays "kixzojq".
3	* '''Exaggerated''':
4	** Sarah and Billy play nothing but made-up words.
5	** Sarah plays "gmsekhnseriognhaeflnaelnbbkjsf". [[RuleOfFunny Don't ask how she got that many letters]], though maybe a {{house rule\|s}} allows words to go out-of-bounds.
6	* '''Downplayed''':
7	** Sarah plays "color" even though she wasn't supposed to use American spellings.
8	** Sarah plays "grammer" and claims it's a new or rare spelling of the word "grammar".
9	** Sarah plays a proper noun.
10	** Sarah plays a rare but real word which isn't in the dictionary.
11	** It never becomes clear whether "kixzojq" is a real (InUniverse) word.
12	* '''Justified''':
13	** Sarah and Billy are children and [[TruthInTelevision don't know any better]].
14	** Billy knows Sarah's vocabulary is larger than his, and Sarah is aware of it and wants to take advantage of it.
15	** Billy is nice and deliberately lets Sarah get away with fake words.
16	** According to the official rules of the Scrabble knockoff, [[NotCheatingUnlessYouGetCaught you're allowed to play made-up words as long as you're not caught]].
17	** Sarah plays made-up words because of her learning disabilities.
18	* '''Inverted''': Sarah plays "table". Billy doesn't believe it's an actual word.
19	* '''Subverted''':
20	** Sarah plays "kixzojq". Later, it turns out that a type of fairy is named "kixzojq".
21	** It turns out "kixzojq" was a real word in a different language, and the Scrabble game allowed for up to one more language besides English to be used.
22	* '''Double Subverted''': Sarah named the fairy some time after the Scrabble game.
23	* '''Parodied''':
24	** Some tiles contain symbols for some reason. Sarah plays "g~$7¤t€£w", and it's accepted.
25	** Sarah uses tiles that aren't even meant for Scrabble and manages to pass off her resulting "word" as valid. "Oh, quarter-drink coaster-bottle cap-dryer lint? Yeah, that's the name of an old Indian folk tune." "Makes sense to me!"
26	** Billy and Sarah ''aren't allowed'' to use real words.
27	* '''Zig-Zagged''': Sarah plays real but obscure words but gives ridiculous definitions to provoke Billy into challenging them. After a couple of failed challenges, she starts using fake words which Billy won't challenge.
28	* '''Averted''': Sarah and Billy only play real words.
29	* '''Enforced''':
30	** "We need more jokes. Why don't we do the classic gag when someone plays nonsense in a Scrabble match?"
31	** This was the only word (as written at least) not shared between the original language and the dub language in the scene, [[PragmaticAdaptation this was both cheaper than redoing the entire scene and lost less of the story than excising the scene entirely]].
32	* '''Lampshaded''': "Sarah, you and I both know that 'qzmfkxj' is not a word. It doesn't even have a vowel."
33	* '''Invoked''': Tina sees that Sarah can't think of anything to play, so Tina whispers to Sarah that she can make something up.
34	* '''Exploited''':
35	** Sarah (or a friend of hers) bets on her Scrabble games, and uses this strategy to win easily.
36	** Billy plays a valuable made-up word later in the match. When Sarah threatens to look it up, Billy says that if she looks it up, he'll look up "kixzojq".
37	* '''Defied''': "And no cheating! If I look up one of your words and it turns out to be fake, I win!"
38	* '''Discussed''': "Dag nab it, I only have consonants. I'd better start making up words or I'll lose."
39	* '''Conversed''': After watching the scene in the straight example, Vera the viewer says, "Stupid Billy, that's not a word. Show her that it's not in the dictionary."
40	* '''Implied''': Some time after the game, Billy says, "I don't even know half the words that Sarah played." While there are thousands of obscure words in the English language, it seems unlikely that the BookDumb Sarah would bother to memorize real words when she could get away with using fake ones.
41	* '''Deconstructed''': Billy questions Sarah about the made-up word.
42	* '''Reconstructed''': Sarah makes up a fake definition for the word.
43	* '''Played for Laughs''':
44	** Immediately after playing "kixzojq", Sarah [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial denies having made up the word]].
45	** Sarah mumbles loudly "I don't have anything, so I'll just make some stuff up." Billy hears it and asks Sarah to define "kixzojq". The only response he gets is "[[BlatantLies I totally didn't make up that word only to use a lot of high-scoring letters.]]"
46	* '''Played for Drama''':
47	** Sarah's use of made-up words leads to a fight between her and Billy.
48	** Sarah uses made-up words to cheat in a tournament Billy desperately wants to win. Billy suspects that some of her words were made up, but he doesn't know which ones, and he's afraid of looking like a stupid SoreLoser if he accuses a real word of being fake...
49	* '''Played for Horror''':
50	** [[DisproportionateRetribution Billy murders Sarah over her use of made-up words.]]
51	** Sarah's made-up words summon {{Satan}} or an EldritchAbomination.
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