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Can you name the U.S. cities with over 100,000 people whose names are playable in Scrabble?
created by
jonnyr12
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Source:
U.S. Census 2009 Estimates
Based on 2009 estimates. Definitions come from the OSPD Scrabble dictionary, unless they are longer than 9 letters, in which case they come from a regular dictionary. Multiple-word cities not included
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Population
City
Definition
1,601,587
A mythical bird
709,441
A type of dessert
645,169
A card game
462,486
A land formation having a flat top and steep sides
324,655
The rising light of the morning
316,238
A finely tempered sword
297,859
A bank of a river
286,174
A portion of a harbor suitable for boats to anchor
270,240
An ox-like animal
255,230
A dealer in provisions
222,013
To deck with wreaths of flowers
217,285
A unit of magnetomotive force
201,162
Young gentlemen
193,171
A form of sculpture
172,945
The rising light of the morning
171,909
A manifestation of divine care or direction
Population
City
Definition
151,037
A luminous circle around a celestial body
144,289
An officer who tends cattle
144,276
Ponds, marshes, or lakes containing salt water
136,990
A citrus fruit
134,699
A flat, treeless grassland
133,872
A place where rabbits live and breed
133,509
A spiny tree or shrub
122,224
A state of agreement
121,180
Freedom from the control, influence, and support of others
111,475
A spark-producing rock
108,666
The middle part of a country
105,845
The relative positions in which performers are listed
104,877
A communal dwelling of certain Indian tribes
101,306
A large sofa
100,837
Pertaining to a 100th anniversary
100,160
To climb up large rocks
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hibernia
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Jul 28th, 2010 at 14:00 GMT
-6 points
playable? Maybe if you were building upon words already laid out on the board. Otherwise, I don't know where you are getting 12 tiles from
jonnyr12
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Jul 28th, 2010 at 14:54 GMT
6 points
Yeah, I realize the longer ones require a little suspension of disbelief. But they're still legal plays if somehow everything falls into place.
brittain33
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Jul 28th, 2010 at 18:13 GMT
2 points
FWIW, every city of nine letters or more on this list contains a shorter legal word that could be combined with seven or fewer letters to make that city's name. provide->Providence, depend->Independence, quite->Mesquite, and so on. Unlikely, but possible. Good work!
Onno
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Jul 28th, 2010 at 18:55 GMT
4 points
You missed Charlotte, NC. It turns out to be some dessert. Otherwise great quiz.
sobdennis
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Jul 28th, 2010 at 18:57 GMT
1 point
tough but good quiz. I was wondering about the longer ones too. but they are possible.
jonnyr12
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Jul 28th, 2010 at 21:12 GMT
1 point
Thanks Onno, adding Charlotte now. The only place I've figured out to test the longer words is on the Facebook version of Scrabble, otherwise they don't show up in the normal electronic or paper dictionaries, so I felt I was bound to miss at least one.
kristofferjay
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Jul 28th, 2010 at 22:50 GMT
1 point
Is the definition of a chandler as a candle-maker in the Scrabble dictionary?
scoripyo
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Jul 29th, 2010 at 05:32 GMT
1 point
How about Charleston too? Its a dance, along with a city.
kagomeshuko
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Jul 29th, 2010 at 05:41 GMT
1 point
Good game. I think you mean "manifestations" not "manifestions."
Calaveras
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Jul 29th, 2010 at 06:47 GMT
1 point
Very creative idea for a quiz. I must have tried typing Butte for the fourth one a dozen times. Too bad it doesn't meet the definition or the population requirement!
TheReaver88
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Jul 29th, 2010 at 13:38 GMT
7 points
I loved the idea for the quiz, but I really thought some of your definitions were strange and/or overly tricky. Just use the most common usage of the word, or else you're making the quiz harder than it needs to be. "Mobile" could be "able to move about on one's own." "Boulder" should be "large rock."
mikepmeyers
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Jul 29th, 2010 at 17:27 GMT
3 points
A type of card game could be Omaha as well!
peterpan
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Jul 29th, 2010 at 21:12 GMT
3 points
boulder is a large rock - why going looking for climbing a large rock? i agree with thereaver88. and boston as a cardgame is stretching it. good idea for a game.
Hooby
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Jul 30th, 2010 at 01:13 GMT
1 point
the idea is good but you did an awful job describing these words....an aurora is not the rising light of the morning, its solar radiation reacting with the gases in the atmosphere. idiot.
jUNKIEd
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Jul 30th, 2010 at 03:37 GMT
1 point
Isn't Pueblo just spanish for town?
newenglander
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Jul 30th, 2010 at 04:20 GMT
1 point
@junkied-well apparently its both
jonnyr12
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Jul 31st, 2010 at 21:43 GMT
1 point
@TheReaver and others: I went with the first definition from the official Scrabble dictionary, which I agree is often an extremely awkward one. Oftentimes, when a word has both noun and verb forms (such as boulder), Scrabble lists the verb form first, because it allows them to list more alternate forms than a noun would (e.g. bouldered, bouldering). I checked on Omaha and Charleston, no dice. And Hooby, I know what an aurora is. Thank the "idiots" at Hasbro. Read this comment, or my comment at the top. If people think the quiz would be better if I changed from Scrabble dictionary definitions to more conventional ones, I am open to the idea.
jonnyr12
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Jul 31st, 2010 at 21:47 GMT
1 point
Sorry, I should clarify... in almost every case, the Scrabble dictionary ONLY lists one definition. So when I say "first" definition, I mean the one that the Scrabble folks have chosen.
suncountrynwa
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Dec 28th, 2011 at 00:16 GMT
1 point
dangit...kept thinking Bismarck for the dessert one...but really good quiz
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