Scrabbling around

Fings just ain't wot they used to be.
Take Scrabble, for instance. When it first appeared on the scene, there were strict rules: English words, no abbreviations, slang or American spelling, no words that require hyphens or apostrophes, no proper names and no words designated as foreign. The inventor obviously had no idea how popular his game would become, nor how the rules would be manipulated to encompass practically anything that appears in the most comprehensive English dictionary available in the world today. As this contains many foreign words which have become acceptable in daily use, competitive Scrabblers have taken to gleaning maximum points through the use of such patently illegal words such as zeds, qi (easily 42 points for that one), ex, aqua, ho, ha and lox. 
The inclusion of these words implies the need to seek a crutch to prop up a weak vocabulary (in the opinion of purist Scrabblers) and makes for a less than pleasant game when competitive and purist meet. I have to say that I prefer the purist game, otherwise what is the fun of using up all the Us when you don't have the Q? You are almost guaranteed to find a loose I to accompany the Q for the aforementioned high score, thus displaying very little skill in the vocabulary arena, but a knowledge of Chinese.
Playing against a computer is even worse, as it will dig out every word in its extensive dictionary and there is nothing you can do to make it retract its letters. In this instance, two can play that game, and I have found it really easy to beat the computer by throwing in a couple of zeds and qis myself! It never says Invalid!
If we are to lower our standards (and that's what it's really about), then perhaps the object of the game should be to achieve a minimum score of, say, 300, failing which it will be your turn to unpack the dishwasher.