Yes, you are always guaranteed a blank in your first rack. The Literati system also randomly draws the rest of the tiles from a distribution table, similar to your current system of drawing.

Scrabble, of course, has only two blanks you draw by luck. The letter distribution however is finite.

On the second suggestion, do allow me to point out that the chances of a poor schlub betting 3 Zs in a row is identical whether you do a random draw or draw from a pre-determined randomly-generated sequence, since we're dealing with the same probabilities here :3: I will concur that this system is more unwieldy, but hay, you know that's how I rolled when I ran that werewolf game!

Ironic. You're using the Scrabble system for blanks and Literati system for draws. I'm lobbying for Literati system for blanks and Scrabble system for draws :o

By the way, Scrabulous was rebranded to Lexulous. Perhaps you can find the old stuff there.

(B)ERIMBAU, 3 x on A, 2 x Double Word = 48
AMEERATE, Double Word = 18

BINGO = 50

Total of 116

Right, let's get rid of some of these not so helpful letters.

VOX is good for a respectable 46 points.

CIVVY, to get rid of some of those annoying tiles, is only worth 32 points.

46 + 32 = 78 points round two, leaving my total at 194.

There are two problems with this. First, your letters were as follows: X-U-V-I-Y-A-H-A-V-R-A-I-E-M. Note that you didn't have an O. Second, forming VOX off of VOTIVE also creates OL, which is not listed in any of the resources in the first post.

Therefore, you forfeit the 46 points, and your total score is 148. I have removed VOX from the board.

oh no... I was going to use the E, when did I change it to an O? Bah.

Indeed, that would have worked. But since you posted VOX here, on the board, and on the score calculator, you must have had O on the brain. One might even say you've been O-wned.

hold your grOans

Alright,

I'll play off the last T in UNWEIGHT to make TAUTOLO[G]IES, with a triple letter on the first O and a double word on the blank turned into a G giving that word a score of - 24

And working on the last S in TAUTOLO[G]IES, I use my remaining letters to form SUITE, with a double word score on the T to give me a score of - 10.

BINGO!

Add 50 points!

Total Score for the round - 84

I made GIGGLE for 20 points, and JELLIFY for a sweet 189 points with the 9x word score.

Who needs bingos?

And Zerg wanted to complain about me leaving people huge openings...

I was expecting after my turn to have people try and capitalize that real estate.

Holy crap, 189 points on a single turn. :shakes fist at Dullenplain:

How would I know there are people far more generous than you? :(

oh man, I guess I am this bad at this.

TIMBERED 48 points, pretty miserable
GULAG 14 points

64 points, tiles left XQ can't get rid of these.

So Juanzen has drawn another Q, giving him 3 total. Would anyone object if I threw 2 of those back, and henceforth if anyone draws a "unique" letter (J/K/Q/X) when they already have that letter, I throw them back. Z would be an exception, since there are a decent number of words with 2 Zs.

No objections here, since it will presumably benefit me in the future as well. Though, I think K isn't quite as tough to use, as does befit its 5 points compared to the 8 and 10-pointers. I personally hate it if I draw too many Cs - that infernal letter should be worth more than its 3 points...

Also, limiting the number of difficult tiles will limit the damage whenever some generous soul leaves a whopper of an opening to the next in line... :3:

I wish you did that with Rs. They (and that stupid X) are the main obstacle to my ability to bingo on this round :(

It's been 24 hours, and I did remind Tritoch last night, so if Sousuke wants to take his turn, he can.

Can I still take my turn since Sousuke hasn't gone yet? I forgot last night, and I haven't even been home most of yesterday and today.

Yes, you can still go.

Then I shall Scrabblize rather than eating lunch today. Huzzah!

Okay, I (finally) made ZOOTY (34) and OR (2) for a total of 36 points.

Then I followed up with HYBRI[D] (52) with a quadruple letter score.

Not the best turn for 88 points total, but I was in a rush.

This time around was surprisingly easier than last time, despite not having a blank. I played:

DIAZONIUMS for 84 points,
CALLOW [also building AL and AW] for 22, 2, and 5 points respectively.

BINGO! + 50 points

That gives me a total of 163 for this round.

I am pretty sure more time and effort will yield me more points and better leftover tiles. But, I'm not quite willing to spend that much resources for a losing game :p I guess claiming a pair of quadruple word scores should suffice.

P and X on the Y in zooty to form PYX for 60 points.
RBOREOUS on the A in tautologies to form ARBOREOUS for 44 points.
A total of 104 points this round, brings me to fifth place, with 160 points.
I am left with IRRI.

I took the liberty of changing zero-value tiles to a white text on black background scheme. Hope you don't mind.

Edit: Seems like you DO mind, the way you kept reverting. Shrug.

Changing background colors for tiles would just get confusing since those are already used to note triple/double letter/word scores. Let's just stick to brackets.

Perhaps you did in your mind, but you didn't put it on the board. I'm not a mind reader, but I'm guessing you meant to play it off of the Y in ZOOTY, which unfortunately has been taken by Zergrinch. Sorry, but you're out of luck.

Yes, I mind. That's just ugly and distracting when you're trying to read the board.

God dammit, that stupid computer didn't save it. I did type HYBRI[D] into the board using ZOOTY, but that window froze up and had to be closed through ctrl+alt+del a few minutes later. I thought Google had already saved itself since it usually does that frequently and I had no time to check.

Without those 52 points I may just drop out after next turn. This takes too much time for an already lost battle.

If it was a computer glitch, I'll give you the points, since you did post your move here.

Also, I did replace Juanzen's 2 Qs, but he only did marginally better with J and L.

Yeah, I'm 100% positive that I put it on the board.