Many nice racks
That’s the only way you can score like this:
Laurie Cohen, a Tempe resident and founder of Tempe Scrabble Club, called her mother in New York at the close of the 25th Annual Phoenix Scrabble Tournament held at Grace Inn in Ahwatukee last weekend.
“I told her, ‘I’ve got good news and bad news. The bad news is I did really crappy in the tournament; the good news is I might have gotten in the Guinness Book of World Records’,” said Cohen, who became the newest member of the Competitive Scrabble 700 Club by scoring 725 points in one game.
There are, in fact, rather a lot of members in the 700 Club, but Cohen’s distinction is shared with her opponent:
Cohen and her opponent, Arizona State University sophomore Nigel Peltier, scored a total 1,127 points, surpassing the previous Guinness record of 1,108.
I feel for Nigel, really: scoring 402 and losing?
Personal best: 515, including one 203-point play. I am reasonably certain that several of you could beat the socks off me, were I wearing socks.
(Via Fark.)
fillyjonk »
21 February 2009 · 9:41 am
I don’t think I ever got out of the 350 range.
Then again, in the past few years, the only group I used to play with included an 80-something woman (may she rest in peace, now) who would stop just short of saying “I will CUT YOU if you take the place I am planning to build next.”
Yeah. Intimidation from an 86 year old church lady. I suppose that’s a strategy not too many players have tried.
Charles Pergiel »
21 February 2009 · 12:06 pm
What!?! No socks? No way, dude!
CGHill »
21 February 2009 · 12:38 pm
Actually, now that I think about it, there’s one woman on ye olde blogroll whom I once challenged, partly in jest, to a game of Strip Scrabble.
If that ever comes to pass, I’ll bring socks.