"What is this babbler trying to say?" Acts 17:18

Sunday, August 2, 2009

Scrabble Update

Scrabble records are amazing. Guess what score a guy got with the word "quixotry?" Okay, okay, I'll tell you: 365. During the same game the carpenter who set this record also set the 830 point game record

Check out this article for a harrowing blow by blow of the game and the controversy around the amateur competitor who set these records in 2006 with a couple lucky "triple-triples" and a 239 point word like "flatfish."

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

That is amazing! Now I know we *have* to get a Scrabble dictionary, so I and others have a legitimate excuse for those crazy words we sometimes use but no-one else believes are words.