SCRABBLE: A FRICTION MATCH

My mother-in-law is in town and we've been playing Scrabble as we love to do. About mid-way through a game on Tuesday night, I used used the word LUCIFER on a triple word score.

My mother-in-law and Hepcat challenged me. "That's a proper noun. You can't use that," my mother-in-law said. We looked in  the dictionary and it was capitalized.

"Seeeeeee," Hepcat cried self-righteously.  "You can't use that. It's capitalized. That means it's a proper noun."

Hepcat victorious.

But then I looked in the Scrabble Dictionary and it said that lucifer is a friction match.

A friction match. Nice. I got 36 points in one turn. Nice.