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DC Scrabblegram (David / Dave) @dcscrabblegram.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Ah, one of my favorites! Great 'gram and the perfect time to post it. 👏🌔🌍👏

DC Scrabblegram (David / Dave) @dcscrabblegram.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

What a perfect time to share your great Earthrise Scrabblegram! I actually made one about the first Artemis launch, and I believe this is when I learned that you were a fan of Peanuts and Snoopy. 😀🚀🌔🥜🥜

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DC Scrabblegram (David / Dave) @dcscrabblegram.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Behold! @lowdowncryptic.bsky.social has outdone himself with another fantastic Scrabblegram (which includes a "reverse transcription" piece of DNA inside). 🧬🏆

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DC Scrabblegram (David / Dave) @dcscrabblegram.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Is "and revolutionized" a cryptic clue for DNA?

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DC Scrabblegram (David / Dave) @dcscrabblegram.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

My wife's dad was a geneticist, and their cats' names over the years have included Watson, Crick, and Franklin. :)

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DC Scrabblegram (David / Dave) @dcscrabblegram.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Wow, this one is outstanding. Such a smooth and well-constructed Scrabblegram! Great theme too, worthy of its own entry. 🧬👏🧬👏🧬👏

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DC Scrabblegram (David / Dave) @dcscrabblegram.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Thanks so much, Lowdown! Wishing you a widespread-chaotic "pray when" too. 😉 (I've missed your letterbank magnificence)

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DC Scrabblegram (David / Dave) @dcscrabblegram.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Brilliant! (and even gettable for an old Gen X guy) 😀👏

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DC Scrabblegram (David / Dave) @dcscrabblegram.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Big thanks to both Steve Geller (my long-time wordplay editor and friend) and Steven Fraser (my palindromist hero / friend) for their very helpful input over the past week. Critical feedback is welcomed, as I'm still open to tweaking this (before submitting it for "SymmyS" consideration).

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DC Scrabblegram (David / Dave) @dcscrabblegram.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

REFLECTIVE ROSE (a palindrome)🌹 Hello, wordplay friends! I miss you all, hope everyone is well. I'm still mostly off of social media, but wordplay is meant to be shared. Here is a new palindrome (a revision / expansion of one I toyed with a couple of years ago). Enjoy. 😊 #palindrome

Reflective Rose - inspired by The Little Prince

I'm a rose, yes, or am I?

Rosy-awed, I smiled at, I craftily admired lost lovers.
Sent I was, a pure veneer,
Felt sacred – now red, now redder still...

A flare! Tall autumn robe regalia.
Fireworks! I rail, I toss, I tier.
It is all a field arcadian, a dopamine dragon’s eye.

Cindery burn-ups – warming is Eden.
If a fox I made with gilded light,
I wed a mix of a fine design.

I’m raw-spun, ruby-red nice. Yes?
No garden – I’m a pod, an aid, a cradle.
I fall as I tire. It is so.

‘Til I, a risk-rower, I fail – age reborn.
Mutual lateral fall, it's redder,
"Wonder! Wonder! Castle-free!"

Never up as a witness revolts.
Older, I'm daylit.
Far citadel, I'm sideways…

Or I'm a rose. Yes, or am I?

Image credit: original by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, this image from https://www.clipartmax.com/middle/m2i8N4G6d3Z5m2H7_little-prince-and-rose-wall-sticker-le-petit-prince-little-prince-rose/

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DC Scrabblegram (David / Dave) @dcscrabblegram.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Outstanding yet again, Lowdown. Very well done.

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DC Scrabblegram (David / Dave) @dcscrabblegram.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

This is amazing timing. I was very much thinking of you last night with nostalgic fondness (and by that I mean all four of you), with a specific nod to Nat - either tomorrow or the next day I'm planning to post floral-themed wordplay (not a Scrabblegram). Hope all of you are well!!!

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DC Scrabblegram (David / Dave) @dcscrabblegram.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Thanks, Lowdown! Your new 'gram today is sensational.

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DC Scrabblegram (David / Dave) @dcscrabblegram.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

My goodness, I missed this way back...sorry about that! Yes, all is well. I've fully retired from 'gramming (for now). Miss you guys. 😊

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DC Scrabblegram (David / Dave) @dcscrabblegram.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Wow, one of my all-time favorites of yours! Fantastic. 👏 👻 👏 Was actually planning to reach out to you out of the blue (no pun intended) either tonight or tomorrow for baseball reasons...go Jays! 🐦 ⚾ 🇨🇦

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DC Scrabblegram (David / Dave) @dcscrabblegram.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

V.edgy! Hope you're doing well, thanks for the kind words. ☺️🙏

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DC Scrabblegram (David / Dave) @dcscrabblegram.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

How nice of you to share this Lowdown, thanks! It remains the last one I ever made. 🙂🍂

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DC Scrabblegram (David / Dave) @dcscrabblegram.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

So good! I remember appreciating that one before, great to see it again today. Hope you're doing well, Lowdown!

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DC Scrabblegram (David / Dave) @dcscrabblegram.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

A classic! Just seeing this now, as we were off the grid in Alaska when you posted it...ended up in your country for the first time and thought of you (even though it was Vancouver rather than Toronto). ☺️🍁 Hope you've been well, Lowdown.

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DC Scrabblegram (David / Dave) @dcscrabblegram.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

I thought you were just making sure that Hasbro / Mattel couldn't go after you for copyright infringement. 😀

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Nat @kapukamum.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

I take urban flowers to join me in wishing poet Dave, excellent source of quite amazing devious wordplay, a great birthday 🥳💐@dcscrabblegram.bsky.social #Srabblegram

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DC Scrabblegram (David / Dave) @dcscrabblegram.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Perfect in every way. I'm sincerely touched...you're the best, Nat! 🥰 💐🙏

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DC Scrabblegram (David / Dave) @dcscrabblegram.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Awesome! (and appropriate that I'm seeing this on a Saturday) 👏 👏 👏

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DC Scrabblegram (David / Dave) @dcscrabblegram.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Wonderful! Thanks for your support, for supporting Penteract Press, and for teaching me a new word today. 😀

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DC Scrabblegram (David / Dave) @dcscrabblegram.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Thank you Bernd, and v.edgy too! You guys are the best. I miss the grammunity! 😊🙏

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DC Scrabblegram (David / Dave) @dcscrabblegram.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

We can agree that the book and the blurb go together perfectly...like pineapple on pizza. 😁🫂

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DC Scrabblegram (David / Dave) @dcscrabblegram.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Thanks, Marian! The back cover blurbs are the best part. 😉

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DC Scrabblegram (David / Dave) @dcscrabblegram.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Much appreciated! If you (or anyone reading this) is interested, Penteract Press recently found three copies of our previously sold out book at penteractpress.com/store/scrabb... This is the second and final print run, so these will be the last available copies in their store.

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Scrabblegrams - David Cohen — Penteract Press

Full Colour, Perfect-bound Paperback, 210 x 148mm, 78pp A collection of "scrabblegrams" — texts composed of every letter contained in a standard English Scrabble set — written on a variety of su...

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DC Scrabblegram (David / Dave) @dcscrabblegram.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Bravo! You've done it again, Lowdown. Terrific use of relevant words...thank you for continuing this project with such excellence! 👏👏👏

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DC Scrabblegram (David / Dave) @dcscrabblegram.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Thanks for sharing this, Lowdown! Wishing you and everyone a happy holiday season. 😊🙏

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DC Scrabblegram (David / Dave) @dcscrabblegram.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Hi all, Back in February I got to give a talk about Scrabblegrams at the Gathering for Gardner convention (which celebrates the legacy of the great Martin Gardner). They just uploaded the vid yesterday, here it is: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQu1... All talks needed to be a tight 6 minutes. Enjoy!

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David Cohen - Scrabblegrams - G4G15 February 2024

YouTube video by G4G Celebration

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DC Scrabblegram (David / Dave) @dcscrabblegram.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Thanks, Lowdown! Happy Thanksgiving to you (both currently 🇺🇸 and belatedly 🇨🇦).

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Lowdown Cryptic @lowdowncryptic.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Happy #Thanksgiving to my American friends! (In Canada, Thanksgiving was Oct 14) Enjoy this #Scrabblegram by @dcscrabblegram.bsky.social, who is happy for others to share his work (non-commercially) and tag him in posts Visit davesscrabblegrams.com for his full collection (>400!) #scrabble #poetry

Thanksgiving
(Scrabblegram by David Cohen)

I realized every day will be
a Thanksgiving, not with
expensive meals, a banquet
of food, or cornucopia...
just more gratitude.

Blanks: T, V

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DC Scrabblegram (David / Dave) @dcscrabblegram.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Always grateful for you, Nat! Well done, and Happy Thanksgiving. 😊👏

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DC Scrabblegram (David / Dave) @dcscrabblegram.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Thank you, Lowdown! Outstanding new 'gram too. If there's anything that can unify us as a country, it's the consensus that your wordplay is consistently top notch. 🕊️

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DC Scrabblegram (David / Dave) @dcscrabblegram.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

To be clear...feel free to share them in your posts or with friends, not for commercial purposes. 😉🙏

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DC Scrabblegram (David / Dave) @dcscrabblegram.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

A full alphabetized list is at davesscrabblegrams.com/full-list, but unfortunately that page only works on desktops and laptops. On a phone, you can use the pulldown menu on the top right of the page to scroll through the full list.

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DC Scrabblegram (David / Dave) @dcscrabblegram.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Dear Readers, The time is not yet right for me to post again, but if anyone would like to share my Scrabblegrams you have my full permission to do so. 400+ entries available at davesscrabblegrams.com Copy-and-paste any 'grams you'd like. Please @ me in your posts! With gratitude, DC

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DC Scrabblegram (David / Dave) @dcscrabblegram.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Hello Linsey! So lovely to see you here too! 👋😊

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DC Scrabblegram (David / Dave) @dcscrabblegram.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Thanks so much, I appreciate it. The cut-and-paste is easy, if I can give myself permission to truly just do that from time to time. It's important that I limit my time on social media, including interactions w/ people I adore. Don't want to disappoint, and it's hard to do anything less than 100%.

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