Friday, October 27
830!
In the community of competitive Scrabble, Michael Cresta's 830 point tournament game Oct 12 has been "heralded as the anagrammatic equivalent of Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point game in 1962 or Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series: a remarkable, wildly aberrational event with potential staying power. Cresta's 830 shattered a 13-year-old record, 770 points."
If you love Scrabble, check out Stefan Fatsis' play-by-play recap on Slate. (And if you haven' t yet, read Fatsis' book about the Scrabble world, Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players, and then go watch Word Wars.)
If you love Scrabble, check out Stefan Fatsis' play-by-play recap on Slate. (And if you haven' t yet, read Fatsis' book about the Scrabble world, Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players, and then go watch Word Wars.)
