Stumble it!
Every word nerd knows the rules–seven tiles, no peeking–but did you know that versions of Scrabble exist in Afrikaans, Arabic, Braille, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Malaysian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Turkish, and Welsh?
…that it was originally known as Lexico?
…that there are 109 permissible two-letter combinations?
…that the highest you can score on the first turn is 126 points, with SQUEEZY or QUARTZY?
…the highest recorded hypothetical score is 1970 with BENZOXYCAMPHORS?
…that the highest score recorded in a single turn in competition was 392 with CAZIQUES [the plural of a West Indian chief]?
…I didn’t.
6 responses so far ↓
1 smorgishborg // Jun 13, 2008 at 6:31 am
My dad and I tried to come up with the highest scoring plausible play. We got 200 something by spanning QUIXOTIC across the two Triple Word scores at the top, assuming someone played a U,I,O,T,or I at the top to begin with.
But CAZIQUES? Gotta be kidding me.
2 Saint Razorblade // Jun 13, 2008 at 1:59 pm
My brother was playing Scrabble on Facebook and had one P, one I, and five O’s.
We couldn’t figure out what to do.
xD
3 Adam_Atlantian // Jun 13, 2008 at 5:01 pm
Poo is a word Saint. :p
That is so cool. I love scrabble.
4 Cpt. Smurf // Jun 14, 2008 at 3:19 pm
Welsh Scrabble?
I bet that’s a *huge* seller.
5 Leja // Jun 16, 2008 at 11:52 am
They don’t play in Japanese?
In any case, those are some pretty cool words!
6 Sweeney_Todd // Jun 29, 2008 at 1:56 pm
…wow…
‘vowel movement’ *snicker*
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