Janie, playing by the rules is relative. When my wife and I play, we use the dictionary and other cheats. We're not really trying to beat one another. We're trying to hone our game skills so we can kick other people's butts when we play them.

What I really don't like about the new rules allowing proper nouns is that someone can play just about anything that looks like a word and claim it's the name of a street, small town, or whatever and hardly anyone's going to risk penalty points by challenging it. Would you challenge "Krog"? If you did, you'd lose. It's a street in Atlanta. What about "Yertz"? I just made that one up, but if I said it was someone's name, would you risk a challenge?