wow plays in scrabble

kalayzich commented on the list wow-plays-in-scrabble

Zev Kaufman I think you are mixing up two categories of bingos . One is significant plays like BRACONID which secure the world championship but are not difficult finds for experts The other category are beautiful ( and therefore inherently difficult ) finds - especially if you don't know that the opportunity exists.These would include WATERZOOI and CHLORODYNE and the like . If you want to set up a site to record these type of plays, I would suggest you set it up as a puzzle page where you show the board and rack and let the viewer try to find the best play

September 6, 2016

kalayzich commented on the list wow-plays-in-scrabble

David Sutton Yes, what I had in mind were more the beautiful or 'wow!' plays. Beautiful plays are likely to be also significant, but significant plays will not necessarily be beautiful. But, as I say, you can't escape an element of subjectivity: clearly from reactions BRACONID did have quite a wow factor for many people

September 6, 2016

kalayzich commented on the list wow-plays-in-scrabble

David Sutton

September 5 at 7:30pm

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It has been suggested to me, in my role as current keeper of the zyzzyva definitions, that BRACONID should now be tagged with ‘as played by Brett Smitheram as a nine-timer in the 2016 WSC’. I don’t myself think that zyzzyva is the place for such commemoration, but it did lead me on to the idea that the WESPA website might have some sort of ‘WESPA Word Hall of Fame’, preserving particularly notable plays for the admiration and edification of us all.

Of course, there are problems. I think that to guarantee integrity and provide context the plays would have to be from recorded games made in a public tournament, and inevitably there is an element of subjectivity: one man’s ‘Wow, BRACONID!’ may be another man’s ‘Well, of course Brett is never going to miss your basic common-or-garden parasitoid wasp’. But I’m sure there have been plays that everyone would agree are spectacular: examples might be WATERZOOI (sorry, I forget who played this) through two floaters, and Nigel Richards playing CHLORODYNE and WORLDSCALE.

Anyway, for what it’s worth I donate the idea if anyone wants to run with it.

September 6, 2016

kalayzich commented on the list wow-plays-in-scrabble

Nicky Deco Excellent idea!

September 6, 2016

kalayzich commented on the list wow-plays-in-scrabble

Naween Fernando I used a blank once for 1 point to try and win an endgame but I didn't win.

September 6, 2016

kalayzich commented on the list wow-plays-in-scrabble

Jay Jay Jegatheva Jegathesan well REDUVIID needs to be there... especially as it basically did to Pakorn the word he initially played leaving the U on the board (edit: to go with what Elie Dangoor said...this was from one of their world championship final clashes).. i dont think i need to spell out who played it smile emoticon

September 6, 2016

kalayzich commented on the list wow-plays-in-scrabble

I played mindfuck against Helen Hynes

Tony K

September 6, 2016

kalayzich commented on the list wow-plays-in-scrabble

Rik Kennedy As a more humble offering, I extended OVERLEAF to CLOVERLEAF at the 4 nations tourney. It was the only way to escape a blocked board and made room for a win from a dead position

September 6, 2016

kalayzich commented on the list wow-plays-in-scrabble

I'm bored with BRACONID now

who said that?

September 6, 2016

kalayzich commented on the list wow-plays-in-scrabble

Geoff Cooper BRACONID does not have a scrabble score of 13. There is nowhere on the board where you can play it for that score. The sum of the number of points on the tiles which spell BRACONID is 13

September 6, 2016

kalayzich commented on the list wow-plays-in-scrabble

Steven Alexander Dan Pratt's play of KNOT one short of the top right triple (all S's gone, I believe) to set up his subsequent BAN(KNOT)E, in the 1988 North American championship.

September 6, 2016

kalayzich commented on the list wow-plays-in-scrabble

Somehow DOUZEPER and JELUTONG have not got a mention yet...?

Nick Ivanovski

September 6, 2016

kalayzich commented on the list wow-plays-in-scrabble

Chris Hawkins GOLDFISH for 185 was played in the 1991semi- final

September 6, 2016

kalayzich commented on the list wow-plays-in-scrabble

Ganesh Asirvatham TA(OISEACH) is sadly obsolete now

September 6, 2016

kalayzich commented on the list wow-plays-in-scrabble

John Hamilton The one that sticks out for me was David Eldar playing SUBCOSTA to secure the win in the first WYSC

September 6, 2016

kalayzich commented on the list wow-plays-in-scrabble

Allan Simmons A question is whether BRACONID is really a fantastic word to spot or is it more of a bread-and-butter eight at this level. I imagine it's quite a useful eight with no duplicates and no E or S, and to the Scrabbler is no different from the likes of CARBINOL , COLUBRID or the more common CUPBOARD. Of course any 9x played at a critical WSC final quite rightly immediately inherits a lot of kudos and the news reports would be rather drab if the winning word was CUPBOARD

September 6, 2016

kalayzich commented on the list wow-plays-in-scrabble

Liz Fagerlund re Nigel's CHLORODYNE, for anyone who doesn't know how this spectacular play was formed, this was played in a club game in 1998 (he only started playing in 1996) with a rack of CDHLNR? - an E at the bottom of the board would have given CHiLDREN or CHaNDLER for 63 points. He played through O_O___E for his amazing 10 letter word; also making ID FY and EN (from the letters of WIFELY above it) for a score of 99 points. I notice looking at a picture of the board in NZ Forwords mag Dec 1998 that if QIN had been a word back then, CHLoRDAN would have played through an A with the N on QI for 76 points.

September 6, 2016

ruzuzu commented on the list wow-plays-in-scrabble

I had someone play vomito on me at a charity tournament once. That one definitely evokes some memories.

September 6, 2016

alexz commented on the list wow-plays-in-scrabble

When I think of scrabble, I think of the table flip.

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September 6, 2016

kalayzich commented on the list wow-plays-in-scrabble

Mohan Chunkath Jim Geary played WATERZOOI

September 7, 2016

kalayzich commented on the list wow-plays-in-scrabble

Karen Richards Years ago, I gave out an award for an interesting play at WYSC - this was heavily criticised, to the point where I ceased doing it.. The argument was that it was subjective. I awarded the prize to the player of AUBERGINE, being a 9-letter play, with a strange combination of letters, and nor even a word used in most countries. However, I was told this was nothing special. Just saying, you are getting into an area where people will say .. "but that isn't anything special." We have been eating WATERZOOI all week, incidentally, so I don't see that as particularly interesting

September 7, 2016

kalayzich commented on the list wow-plays-in-scrabble

David Sutton Eating WATERZOOI is one thing; spotting it as a nine-letter word through two separated floaters is another! But yes, the matter is subjective; doesn't stop it being a potentially entertaining and instructive addition to the WESPA website.

September 7, 2016

kalayzich commented on the list wow-plays-in-scrabble

Ganesh Asirvatham Potentially any inspired 9 letter or more play would make the cut. As most of us are aware, knowing the word and spotting the word in open play are two very different concepts. Lewis Mackay played YPSILOID which is relatively easy to find when cardboxing on ZYZZYVA but holding DIIPLOS and looking for a Y to make a bonus is inspired indeed.

September 7, 2016

kalayzich commented on the list wow-plays-in-scrabble

http://malaysianscrabble.tripod.com/sites/bah.html

September 7, 2016

kalayzich commented on the list wow-plays-in-scrabble

https://scontent-sjc2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/14291776_10209264026251534_5054807727748835039_n.jpg?oh=109312a80176927046f0b2213cf0b44d&oe=584D453D

September 7, 2016

kalayzich commented on the list wow-plays-in-scrabble

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3773733/I-m-scrabble-world-champion-don-t-clue-words-mean-Brit-37-wins-prize-braconid-zorinos.html

September 7, 2016

kalayzich commented on the list wow-plays-in-scrabble

Steven Alexander Not sure why there's a need for a cobbled-together list at wordnik when there's a promise (by Elie) of a (sure to be well-done) page by WESPA.

September 8, 2016

alexz commented on the list wow-plays-in-scrabble

I'd be like
ypsiloid??   YPSILOID?   YPSILOID??????!!

September 8, 2016

kalayzich commented on the list wow-plays-in-scrabble

http://www.collinsdictionary.com/scrabble/scrabble-tools/

September 8, 2016

kalayzich commented on the list wow-plays-in-scrabble

To realise that some frustrations are species of joy is to become open to kinds of value other than the straightforwardly utilitarian.Jeremy Khoo

September 19, 2016

kalayzich commented on the list wow-plays-in-scrabble

transliteration played by Garth Van Vliet

October 31, 2016

kalayzich commented on the list wow-plays-in-scrabble

Adam Kretschmer played inquests for 203

November 4, 2016