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October 28, 2006
830!: .406, 61* (or 73, I suppose), 56, 100, 2,632... 830 joins the pantheon of great sports numbers.
Great link tieguy. I enjoy looking at the words they come up with. QUIXOTRY? Sheesh.
posted by Ying Yang Mafia at 09:56 AM on October 28, 2006
Tangentially, I know that ESPN or somebody once ran a column on the Great Sports Numbers; I was trying to find that for the post but couldn't. Does anyone else remember this? Better yet, can anyone find it? :) YG: The words, and just the sheer # of 7 and 8 letter words- that blew my mind. I can count the number of times I've cleared my tiles on one hand. Probably on 2 or 3 fingers, really. To do it that many times in a game...
posted by tieguy at 10:27 AM on October 28, 2006
I once had a ~500 point game against my wife (who had around 260 or so), and it felt like I'd hit for the cycle and pitched a perfect game. Scoring 830 is so far beyond my realm of comprehension that it stops making sense.
posted by grum@work at 10:48 AM on October 28, 2006
I once had a ~500 point game against my wife (who had around 260 or so), and it felt like I'd hit for the cycle and pitched a perfect game I bet someone slept on the couch that night. My personal highest is somewhere in the 470's, I think. I average somewhere around 310.
posted by Ufez Jones at 01:39 PM on October 28, 2006
This is good. My best (against a live opponent) is 512. And that was on the perfect day, when the perfect letters came out of the bag and everything laid out just right on the board. 830 is almost beyond belief.
posted by 86 at 03:40 PM on October 28, 2006
I feel privileged when I get a single 7 letter bingo in a game. However I think we now need a SpoFi Scrabble meet up. No Rules Death Match In A Cage. Blood will be spilled. I predict it.
posted by owlhouse at 04:14 PM on October 28, 2006
Just reading that article has given me an inferiority complex (complex would be worth a couple of points wouldn't it?). From now on I will be playing chutes and ladders.
posted by kyrilmitch_76 at 06:33 PM on October 28, 2006
c-3 o-1 m-3 p -4 l-1 e-1 x-8 so 21 plus 50 for the scrabble.. so 71 without any bonus spots. (I did the values from memory, so if I got the P wrong and it is only 3, I'm sorry.)
posted by apoch at 09:06 PM on October 28, 2006
Playing Trivial Pursuit Pop Culture Edition last night, I got the question, "What it is called when you use all your tiles in Scrabble?" Thanks to my addiction to SpoFi, I knew the answer. Thanks SportsFilter!
posted by SummersEve at 07:47 AM on October 29, 2006
Apparently a comment that questions Scrabble as a legitimate sport is found to be offensive and warrants deletion.
posted by ledzep77 at 10:14 AM on October 29, 2006
How this game was played without using KWIJIBO is beyond me.
posted by HATER 187 at 11:13 AM on October 29, 2006
Apparently a comment that questions Scrabble as a legitimate sport is found to be offensive and warrants deletion. Apparently since in the guidelines it names the question Is [enter sport here] a sport or not? as a specific banned topic. I feel like jerseygirl now
posted by Ying Yang Mafia at 01:07 PM on October 29, 2006
Simon Barnes has done a round-up of the important numbers from the year in the Times for the last couple of years: 2004 "169,998,000 Difference in cost, in pounds, between Chelsea and Scarborough squads when they met in the FA Cup fourth round." 2005 "7 Best. "
posted by JJ at 09:41 AM on October 30, 2006
Love that (intermediate-level player named Mike Eldeiry) suggests that because the victor wasn't making the smartest plays and "not trying to win" the record shouldn't count. Huh? It's a record and it's not yours.