Comments on: Lunchtime Quiz: Scrabble

By: dca

dca — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:56:13 +0000

Scrabble is a great mental game and is most fun played with your own family.. My children beat me most of the time..Word power and spelling rule!

By: Joanna

Joanna — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 07:59:20 +0000

5/10…bah

I love Scrabble. The very first time I played I was 12. I scrabbled(which is what my fam calls the use of all 7 tiles) with “tsunami”. My dad was playing as well and did not believe it was a word. He challenged and I won.

I’m a teacher at an ESL school in Korea. I encourage the kids to play Scrabble if we finish class early. They love it and do quite well. One of the kids in grade 7 beats me on a regular basis. S=

By: Phraktyl

Phraktyl — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:35:34 +0000

Dan, you’re absolutely right on QUIXOTIC. For some reason I counted that double letter as a triple letter. My mind was apparently elsewhere today.

CAZIQUES is nice! I’m going to have to remember that if it ever comes up!

By: dan

dan — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:51:37 +0000

as far as individual plays go, to my knowledge “caziques,” when played so the Q hits the double letter score in between the two triple word scores, is the highest scoring bingo. it fetches 392 while “quixotic” should yield 356.

By: Dewayne

Dewayne — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:41:49 +0000

I got eight right….missed Foghat and the department store. I play as regularly as I can on a PC game that unfortunately only allows PG words. Best word was a TWS-TWS for 149 or so. Can’t remember the word, though, dang it!

By: Barbara

Barbara — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:11:45 +0000

I got 7 right. Scrabble has been a favorite in my family since I was 12, and that was in 1953…

By: lynne

lynne — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 23:27:37 +0000

I got 2 right and that’s only because I knew that Dave Peverett was in Foghat. I did not know the origin of hte band name however.

By: Dan Henderson

Dan Henderson — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:45:05 +0000

Here’s my favorite Scrabble story, though it’s not mine:

www(dot)vidlit(dot)com(slash)craziest

Lots of other fun stuff on that site, too.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:02:12 +0000

I meant to mention my best word, ‘cole reminded me.

I once nailed “Expenses” as a triple-triple word in the lower right corner for a 194 point blast. I think under that Retailers was also like 130

By: Phraktyl

Phraktyl — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:59:19 +0000

6/10. I got all of the questions regarding *playing* Scrabble correctly, but missed some of the historic ones.

From what I have read, QUIXOTIC is the highest scoring word that can be played (without boards set up specifically for more points). If played down, from the upper left TWS (Triple Word Score), assuming that, say, the I is already on the board, and you have QUXOTIC in your rack, it will fetch 428 points, and likely a very dirty look from your opponent.