This list of all the scrabble letter points has everything you need to know to calculate the tile points. Find the top 100 most popular items in amazon books best sellers. Before the game begins, all players should agree upon the dictionary that they will use, in case of a challenge. He played the word oxyphenbutazone across the top of the board, hitting three triple word score squares while making seven crosswords below. Play across a triplewordscore red square with the letter z on a doubleletterscore light blue square. Scrabble expert breaks record scrabble wonderhowto.
Record for the highest scoring scrabble move scrabulizer. Oxyphenbutazone for a record 1,487 pts on words with friends for the ipod. He holds the record for the highest scrabble rating ever achieved. Discover the best scrabble hints, tips and secrets by clicking on any of the book. The scrabble deluxe has draws for storing the letters and letter trays but this score sheet if it was just a tad smaller would fit in as well and make it a real complete set. Toh wei bin scored 850 against rick kennedy of scotland in 2012. And though no ones managed to use it yet, the theoretical highestscoring scrabble word out there is oxyphenbutazone. A far more serious attempt can be found here, which reports 1778 points for the word oxyphenbutazone using the smaller american scrabble dictionary twl06 only. Using only words from twl06 and only possible though unlikely moves for the. The match managed to break the north american scrabble records for most points earned in a single play 365, highest individual score 830, and most combined points in a. Scrabble celebrates 50 years with nabk in the nude. Scrabble scorebook by thor wisteria, paperback barnes.
What is the highest possible scoring scrabble word. Who holds the guinness world record for the highest score in scrabble. This simple calculater uses the letter values given here to tell you how much a word is worth in the game of scrabble. The highest scoring opening plays are muzjiks 128 in ospd and quartzy 126 or squeezy 126 in osw. Who holds the guinness world record for the highest score. Theoretically, what is the highest possible scoring word. The match managed to break the north american scrabble records for most points earned in a single play 365, highest individual score 830, and most combined points in a game 1,320. Otherwise nice for score sheet and makes scoring easy to keep. There are 800 puzzles, so this book will last through many a long winters night.
The highest possible opening move score in scrabble, played by jesse inman at the 2008 national scrabble championship in orlando. Scrabble celebrates 50 years with nabk in the nude the. Playing a word and not sure what the values of each tiles are. For more information about scrabble brand products or naspa, or to comment on or correct the contents of this page, or to report technical difficulties in. Scrabble rules official word game rules board games. But edley also gives his score of 164 and challenges you to beat it. If final scores are tied, the player whose score was highest before adjusting for. Memorizing these twelve easy words compiled by our friends at will help you clear your rack and rack up points. This is theoretically the highest possible scoring word under legal us scrabble tournament rules, scoring 1,780 points across three tripleword score squares, joining seven tiles to eight alreadyplayed tiles. According to the guinness book of world records, the highest score ever recorded in a scrabble match was made. According to wikipedia, gyles brandreths 1984 book the scrabble. In 2007, michael cresta used an alreadyplayed r and all seven of his tiles across two triple word score squares to earn the most points ever on a single turn, which aided in a second record for the fulltime carpenter. How to win at scrabble with new words and strategies.
The highest score they report using only words found in the massive sowpods word list is 1682 points. We took some of the highest scoring words and posted them here for your enjoyment. With this alternate spelling of muzhiks, jesse inman earned the record of the highest scoring opening scrabble word ever played in 2008. According to the guinness book of world records, the highest score ever registered at a scrabble match was by singapores ton wei bin 850 in 2012. This is the highestscoring scrabble move ever best life. How a massachusetts carpenter got the highest scrabble score ever. Scrabble letter values the values of all tiles in scrabble. A scrabble competition held recently in malta will be recorded in the history books after players set a new world record for the most points scored in a. Game record keeper book, scorekeeping pads, scoring sheet. Guinness world record books are found in the same places that other. You should have a game board, 100 letter tiles, a letter bag, and four racks. Play across a triplewordscore red square with the letter z. How a carpenter got the highest scrabble score ever.
This book is used to adjudicate at the world scrabble championship and all other major international competitions outside north america. What makes nigel richards the best scrabble player on. Marty gabriel of charleston is pictured with a certificate for helping set a new scrabble guinness world record for the highest scrabble score in 24 hours between two players. According to the guinness book of world records, the highest score ever recorded in a scrabble match was made by toh wei bin of singapore who scored 850 against rick kennedy of scotland in 2012. The elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in zerosum games such as chess.
Happy playing to all and my deepest thanks to arcade boss for hosting scrabble. The amazing scrabble score sheet you need to try for 4. When 03 july 2016 the highest scrabble score in 24 hours by two players is 216,439 points and was achieved by scott garner and marty gabriel both usa in. Ridiculous tournament game between me and jerry lerman.
Ive seen setups for scores of over 2000 with either oxyphenbutazone or dehydrofreezing over three triple word scores. If the opportunity ever arose, he would never play the highest possible scoring move in the game of scrabble, because he thinks that would be showing off if multiple scrabble moves have the same maximum possible score, he would consider them all tied for 1st and only be willing to play the next highest. In the atlantic monthly of june 1987 barry chamish wrote an article masters of the tile. The craziest scrabble game ive ever played youtube. Googling for high scrabble scores, youll find many links to funwithwords, which contains. This sporting life what is the highest overall score it is possible to achieve using all the letters in a scrabble set, and what is the highest individual score ever achieved. It remains the worlds topscoring single scrabble move ever. I was reading this article about the world seniors event, and it mentioned in passing.
White panda shake drop on video which i do not own. Top ratings by state and province scrabble players. Cazigue 77 points the highest ever recorded score at scrabble was 392 for the word caziques at a tournament in manchester, according. Slates stefan fatsis has the rundown on what the article bills as the highest scrabble score ever, but which really appears to be just the highest score in north america earlier this month in a game between two lowerlevel players, michael cresta managed to score 830 points, besting the previous north american record of 770 points.
I think plantation, florida resident robert kahn has you beat. Successfully spelled boozing for 210 points my single highest word ever also notched a single board score of 701 mr. All words labeled as a part of speech including those listed of foreign origin, and as archaic, obsolete, colloquial, slang, etc. It can score 1778 under suitably contrived circumstances listed and credited in the scrabble faq. All across america players worked on the problem and came up with a high score of 6 points. Local man gets confirmation of setting scrabble world.
Architect alfred mosher butts created the game in 1938, initially calling it lexiko and later criss cross words. What makes nigel richards the best scrabble player on earth by. What is the highest overall score it is possible to. Finding high scoring words can be hard, we try and make it easy for you here because. Our online scrabble dictionary will help you do that. Whats the highest score you ever achieved in one scrabble game. Nineyearold makes world record in scrabble the express. The top 10 highest scoring 7 letter words you use in scrabble. Fifteen high scoring scrabble words that include the. The highest possible legal score on a first turn is. Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by placing tiles, each bearing. I don t think is the case, but its possible, or theyre very unclear about their product. Since the 1940s, 150 million versions of the games have been sold worldwide.
Finding high scoring words can be hard, we try and make it easy for you here because we want to try and maximize the letters we have to the highest scoring words we can produce with them. The highest possible legal score on a first turn is muzjiks 128, using an actual u rather than a blank. Want to beat your scrabble friends no matter where you are. It is thus the highestscoring completely legal scrabble move ever discovered. But it was christchurch player malcolm graham who went home with what is believed to be a record score for an individual word played in international tournaments scoring 289 for the word disquiet. Highest opening move score octwl muzjiks with a blank for the u 126 by jesse inman s. The highest scrabble score in 24 hours by two players is 216,439 points and was achieved by scott garner and marty gabriel both usa in charleston, illinois, usa, on 34 july 2016. A now old scrabble book in my possession records the highest turn score in tournament play as caziques over two triple word scores this would score 392. It is named after its creator arpad elo, a hungarianamerican physics professor the elo system was originally invented as an improved chess rating system over the previously used harkness system, but is also used as a rating system for multiplayer. Ohioan dan stock found the word, which is worth a wild 1,458 points.
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