Carpenter Breaks Previous Scrabble Point Record

theodp writes "Unimpressed by Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point game? Think Don Larsen's perfect World Series game was no big deal? How about Michael Cresta's 830-point Scrabble game? Not only did Cresta shatter a 13 year-old record for the highest sanctioned Scrabble score in North America, he also set a new record for the most points on a single turn — 365, for QUIXOTRY."

Comments

"Quixtory" and "Vrows" ??

[Average_Joe_Sixpack]

Is this the English or Klingon version?

Klingon Scrabble?

[chowdy]

What kind of petaQ would play scrabble?

CSI

[aadvancedGIR]

I just had an horrible vision of this guy being crucified to a windmill by some other player.

Strictly the Queen's English when I play?

[mrjb]

Yeah, that's a very convenient way to cheat. After all 'Colour' is worth more points than 'Color'.

“Kwidgibo”

[Lethyos]

“A, uh, big, dum, balding, North American ape.”

Re:“Kwidgibo”

[SpooForBrains]

JOZXYQK!

"... jozikskeh?"
"It's a cat word! It's the noise you make when you get your genital organs trapped in something"
"Is it in the dictionary?"
"It could be, if you're reading in the nude and you close the book too quick"

Record, says who?

[Anonymous Coward]

So, basically, two guys claim to have been playing Scrabble in a basement when miraculously one of them spell a dubiously-admitted word riddled with rare letters on a triple bonus. There's no official judge or standards body monitoring this hobbyist competition.

And we're supposed to believe them because it took place in a church?

Next week, Salon will report about the guy in a threelegged race at the Scientology picnic who tripped on a sprinkler and wound up beating Carl Lewis' long jump distances.

Re:Record, says who?

[Paradise Pete]

one of them spell a dubiously-admitted word

As fancy scrabble words go, I'd say quixotry is surprisingly legit. If I were in a situation where I wanted to say something like "Enough of your quixotry," no other word would work nearly as well.

Only 100 points?

[XxtraLarGe]

Unimpressed by Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point game?

I suppose a 100-point game of Scrabble isn't too bad for a professional basketball player. Of course, I can't imagine when he would have had time to ever play scrabble with all of his other extracurricular activities...

Wow!

[Megane]

Holy disestablishmentarianism, Batman!

Re:'zas', 'em'?

[fluffywuffy]

I like 'es' and 'em' ;-)

Fear the carpenters !

[jalet]

A carpenter 2000 years ago founded the most powerful multinational company on earth, and now this !

Is he still planning to pitch game 6?

[Tetrad_of_doom]

I think it is great that Carpenter uses his off day to play a little Scrabble and set a record, but I'd prefer he just be ready to pitch for the Cardinals against the Tigers in game 6. He shouldn't just assume that they'll clinch the series tonight.

Re:Scrabble Without a Dictionary...

[wishmechaos]

Sometimes me and my friends play what we call Drunk Scrabble. The rules state that if you can pronounce a word, and make up a definition that sounds credible, it's valid. No real words are accepted, unless they're really funny words.

It's not serious at all, but it's way more fun to play!