#992 Getting stuck with a Q at the end of a scrabble game

10 points is a whole lot of points in Scrabble. And can you imagine getting it on a triple letter? Crazy! Q-words are some valuable commodities on the scrabble board, that's for sure. Quit, quilt, quick, quiet, quite, all winners. The Q letter should always be sought after in the beginning and middle of the game; getting a good Q word is a winning strategy, as long as you obtain the letter when all four U's are still out and about waiting to be paired with their long lost Q mate.

What's slightly annoying is when you finally do get the sought after Q and notice all 4 U's are out on the board. Okay, okay, not the end of the world, just trade it for a mystery letter in the bag and let someone else deal with it.....what do you mean there's no letters left? Uh oh.

So you're stuck in a slightly annoying situation. The U's are all out or in other player's racks, and it's already come down to the two letter moves of "it, an, of" and the other classic last-round Scrabble moves. Let's face it, you're gonna either have to take the 10 point hit on that Q or you're gonna have to break out the illegal google-search for weird words like QI (which, by the way, is a vital force in Chinese thought according to the online scrabble dictionary).

Who's stupid idea was it to make a letter that required another letter next to it anyway?

It's just slightly annoying.