Great link tieguy. I enjoy looking at the words they come up with. QUIXOTRY? Sheesh.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.)
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!
Apparently a comment that questions Scrabble as a legitimate sport is found to be offensive and warrants deletion.
How this game was played without using KWIJIBO is beyond me.
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
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. "
