Comments on: World's Highest Scoring Scrabble Game.

By: Salviati

Salviati — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:52:26 +0000

To the people who insist that they know every word in the English language, and are thus the leading authority on the subject, I urge you to rethink your status. There is a very strict guideline for a word to be a legal play in Scrabble, and each word on that board follows that guideline, and as such, is legal. There are many words in the TWL (the tournament word list, which is the official list of words valid in the game) which are not used as part of our daily language. This is due to the tendency for words to gain entry into our language much faster than they depart. Consequently, we have many words left over from yesteryear, which will eventually leave the leading English dictionaries, and, consequently, the TWL.

By: Hallberg

Hallberg — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:52:47 +0000

SORRY DRUNK

By: Hallberg

Hallberg — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:52:20 +0000

BENZOXYCAMPHORS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Hallberg

Hallberg — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:49:16 +0000

OH THE WORD IS BENZOXYCAMPITORS ACROSS THE TOP

THE FULL BOARD IS ON http://www.fun-with-words.com/scrabble.html

By: Hallberg

Hallberg — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:47:37 +0000

http://www.fun-with-words.com/scrabble.html

thsi is teh hihgest scrable wordd score thaat i haave seen.....

1830 points ONE TURN!!!

IF POSSIBLE IN A REAL GAME WOW (LET ME SPELL THAT AGAIN BACKWARDS WOW)

By: Sanders

Sanders — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 18:46:55 +0000

Was just wondering , is a higher score possible ? What would it take to score like that in scrabble?

By: vcSlim

vcSlim — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 16:39:04 +0000

ZA (pizza) got added to the official TWL98 Scrabble dictionary back in March as were FE, OI, KI and QI. Now even novice players can unload the Z and Q.

An intentional invalid play is called a phoney. It's up to your opponent to catch the mistake. It's all part of the strategy.

By: lilricky

lilricky — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 19:20:47 +0000

I call BS, Guinness rules dictate that an official from Guinness must be present at attempts to break a Guinness World Record. There was none present. And if you bother to contact Guinness you will find that they have no record of this "record". Of course it is Slate, who needs facts when a deadline is due.

By: Shane

Shane — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 06:01:33 +0000

Moon: According to http://www.collins.co.uk/wordexchange, they are all valid scrabble words except for Za.

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 04:31:28 +0000

Then I could go play a game of scrabble with a friend and we could beat the record by just throwing random letters down and not challenging each other.

By: doppler

doppler — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 03:51:31 +0000

In scrabble, you can spell non-existent words and have them be valid plays, HOWEVER, the person you're playing against MUST challenge that word. If they challenge it and it actually is a word in the dictionary, the challenger LOSES there turn, thus they may not challenge a word that was played if they are not certain about it.

By: Moon

Moon — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 00:36:31 +0000

Vrow isn't a word.
Awa isn't a word.
Za isn't a word.
Cor isn't a word.
Rax isn't a word.
Nam isn't a word.

By: John

John — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 22:54:19 +0000

Is the record valid? The word "vrow" is ment to be Dutch. It nearly is. The correct spelling is "vrouw". And because it is used two times it is two times wrong. Besides the plural of "vrouw" isn't "vrows" but "vrouwen". So there are three missspellings.