Best Scrabble game, best Clabbers game.In past Word Ways issues, Ron Jerome, Ralph Beaman and Jeff Grant presented high-scoring Scrabble games of 4047, 4142 and 4454 points, respectively. All were based on the word BENZOXYCAMPHORS, a word not sanctioned by the National Scrabble Association. The game below, scoring 3986 points, uses only words from the OSPD or Webster's Tenth Collegiate. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Scoring Summary (A left over): 68 rousing 6 rot, ta 2 re 10 it, toe 3 id 10 us, alamedas 24 qats 98 ravigote ra·vi·gote also ra·vi·gotte n. A vinegar sauce seasoned with minced onion, capers, and herbs, used with boiled meats or fish. [French, from ravigoter, to add new vigor 146 reinjures 4 ab 5 he 2 re 8 mo, am 31 ref, flam 3 uta 12 flamed pass 293 overidentifying Total 727 70 alameda, arousing 6 rote, el 8 od, oe 4 hm 2 at 1277 microtechniques, ne, qat, carousing, cod 69 identify 122 wolflike 12 jib 29 we, wab 8 hen, an 5 spa 7 la, lam 9 reft, ta 26 en, flame, on 1587 oxyphenbutazone, jibb, spaz, de 18 ax Total 3259 In Clabbers, one is allowed to put down any sequence of letters that can be transposed to a word. The best Clabbers game, given below, scores a total of 4829 points, using only words in the OSPD or Webster's Tenth Collegiate. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Scoring Summary (I left over): 84 vocitem (vicomte) 401 sonjsvocitembin (nonobjectivisms) 121 wrfeaey (freeway, if, et, ac, me, by, rice) 137 dadivoe (avoided, wold, carnie, deft, wite, gave, dome, abye) 11 ttiecma (interact) 69 iolabua (aboulia a·bou·li·a n. Variant of abulia. , recitation) 179 gfgroel (flogger, glowed, petrifaction petrifaction: see fossil. fridge, writes, lovage lovage, tall perennial herb (Levisticum officinale) of the family Umbelliferae (parsley family), native to the mountains of S Europe and cultivated elsewhere. Its aromatic fruits are used in soups and as a flavoring for confectionery and for some liqueurs. , meoued, belady) 10 uh (uh, hi) 15 by (by, ba, by) 8 po (op, pa) 5 crc (rec) 21 ahm (ham, argufied) 1493 eaukcreiahmqrot (microearthquake, petrifications, queendom) Total 2554 15 svocitem (vicomtes) 5 iec (ice) 121 lnewgda (wangled), owl, nicer, fie, wet, age, med) 9 tiecrna (certain) 11 ittiecrna (intricate) 156 eprslud (slurped, lowed, crepitation crepitation /crep·i·ta·tion/ (krep?i-ta´shun) a dry sound like that of grating the ends of a fractured bone.crep´itant crep·i·ta·tion n. 1. , fried, wites, gavel, odeum, bayed) 149 rsuatni (nutrias, growled, petrifactions, figured, waiters, voltage, eudemon eu·dae·mon also eu·dai·mon or eu·de·mon n. A good or benevolent spirit. Noun 1. eudemon - a benevolent spirit eudaemon, good spirit , beadily) 6 nuh (hun) 10 aby (bay, la) 15 re (re, glowered) 35 hm (hm, waterish, megavolt megavolt /mega·volt/ (MV) (meg´ah-volt) one million (106) volts. meg·a·volt n. Abbr. MV One million volts. megavolt one million volts. ) 16 ro (or, diablery) 1725 oneznuhxabyxpoe (oxyphenbutazone, prettifications, xu) Total 2275 STEPHEN C. ROOT Westboro, Massachusetts NATHAN HEDT North Adelaide, South Australia |
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