Hit Me With Your Best Prompt

by handful of sky

Reader-prompted drabble series. All Castle/Beckett, and all exactly 100 words.

3. Scrabble

Thanks for all the great prompts. I'm really looking forward to writing all of these!

Prompt by LorettaCancun. Scrabble words and individual letters aren't included in my word count.

Disclaimer: Still not mine.

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Scrabble

It's not that different from poker. There's an element of luck, one of skill, and a little psychology. She places all her tiles on the board.

LANTERN

Double word, fifty-point bonus for using all seven letters. She's back in the lead, but not for long. He adds an S to make LANTERNS and places his remaining tiles to create FOXIEST.

She turns to her newest batch of letters: ALELOTI. LATE? TEAL? TOLL?

Ah. Starting with the F he placed, she arranges all seven tiles to create a new word, and, with his powers of concentration completely shot, she wins easily. Well, maybe there's more than a little psychology involved...