Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for February 26, 2020

Scrabble isn’t helping Calvin with his reading skills.

Has anyone tried saying “zqfmgb” out loud?

I am somehow reminded of a “Taz Mania” episode where the Warner Brothers’ Tasmanian devil places Scrabble with his hotel employer’s mum and he comes up with his trademark sound effect… which is so in the dictionary (much to the lady’s chagrin).

First one to reach 1,000,000 wins the game.

Leave it to Calvin to cheat at Scrabble.

In our house, we have agreed that any proposed rules are legal if everyone agrees on them. With normal people this works well. With some people, however, it means that scrabble can mutate into Calvin-ball with very little notice.

A political speech writer should insert that word into the middle of a speech.

Scrabble has only one X and only one J.

Lets get the word out on this version of scrabble

Why Scrabble was more fun than Words With Friends (WWF’s programming won’t let you play made-up words).

Scrabble…the “Calvin and Hobbes” version!

A 12 letter word? Must be playing Calvin Scrabble!

Those nutty New Guineans don’t put vowels in their word for that worm, but put extra in their island’s name

I tink I hurt ma tongue.

Some people seem to cheat their way through life. Others know they are cheating but let them. I wonder if letting a cheater cheat allows us to feel better about cheating ourselves?

For a fun twist on Scrabble, we used to play phonetic Scrabble, where anything that sounds like a word is legal. Some examples of valid words in phonetic Scrabble would be PHARR (FAR) JYANT (GIANT), etc.

Um… how did he get an odd number score with a double word score?

So is Calvin teaching Hobbes how to cheat or the other way around?

Calvin for President! He’s a born politician.

Its a Polish surname. Its pronounced the same as Hobbes’ word with all the X’s and J’s.

“All the Xs and Js”? Isn’t there only one of each on those?

ZQFMGB… could it be on a New Guinea license plate?

I just wonder if anyone actually plays Scrabble anymore.

Would any expect this game to not go this way?

How do you get a score of 957 when using a Double Word Score box?

First of all, Scrabble only has one X and one J.

Second, spelling “Zqfmgb” on a double word score does not get you that many points.

ZQMFG8? Who put the numbers in the game? Maybe it’s a “B,” and my glasses aren’t with me. shrug

957, this is a kid who can’t do 9+4.

Obviously a misprint. The word he is thinking of is actually ZQMFG*7*…

You’d think, with his preternatural (for his age) vocabulary, Calvin would be a world-class scrabbler.

Oddness aside, the highest conceivable score for a Scrabble word falls far short of 957.

Let me guess: “jackinthebox.”

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ZQFMGB

I tried pronouncing Calvin’s word several times but had to quit when my tongue tied itself into a “clove hitch knot.”

If you had pluralized it, you could have gotten even more points!

His MPD is getting really sophisticated now.

My favorite scrabble words: Zoquo from the Greek, meaning “water sports” and Ushnuu also from the Greek meaning “to towel off.”After I zoquo, I like to ushnuu.

Their rules for scrabble seem about as well-defined as the rules for Calvinball

Most of the comics on Calvin and Hobbes are repeats :(

That word qualifies at this age since most of the catchas are similar. The 12 letter words with Xs and Js are nicely played move by Hobbes.

Kwyjibo!