Apr 30 2024 - Did Scrabble Woke Up or Wake Up

 

The New Scrabble is a group game to be played with friends and everyone wins or no one wins.  Like group games.  That's how they work.  It was billed as "less competitive" and "more inclusive".   What a great renewal for the beloved game.   There are lots of games like this - Castle Panic, Divided Republic, The Hobbit, Mansions of Madness, and so on.  Lots and lots.   What made Fox News go ballistic over this?  First of all, I heard the clip on CBC Radio and was shocked by the language and tone of voice.  “Scrabble is dumbing itself down for the woke,” Jeanine Pirro proclaimed on Fox News, as  “SCRABBLE FOR SNOWFLAKES”  was projected on the screen. I don't watch Fox news so am not accustomed to arrogant and dismissive "news representatives". I also want to know if there is a Fox "accent" for the hosts on the show? Because that was a strange accent that I heard. And then the word "woke" - is this an adjective used at large for negative views?   There we are, wondering how a new Scrabble game became a political issue.  It turns out that anything can be a political issue, if one works at it.    A close-up of Hyacinth flowers.

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Feb 21 2021 - Scrabble Highest Scores

 

A record Scrabble score was on the news this week - it was 350 points for the word quizzers and was reported by the CBC: "Betty Kuchta landed the word 'quizzers' on the Scrabble app In Scrabble, 365 points would be considered a great score for an entire game, but Betty Kuchta of Chatham, Ont., earned all those points with just a single word. Kuchta was playing the game on Friday with her husband when she got the word "quizzers." It was interesting to research the highest Scrabble score as there are Scrabble games by amateurs and then there are games by professionals.  High scores might not be achieved if one is a professional - game strategy by professionals block each other from high scores.  That doesn't deter our excitement over Scrabble scores. In 2006, carpenter Michael Cresta broke the record for the highest Scrabble score ever of 830 by scoring 365 points with the 27-base-point word quixotry. But Cresta's impressive move still falls short of the feat Karl Khoshnaw managed in 1982. The international Scrabble legend earned 392 points with CAZIQUES (which is the plural of a type of oriole). It remains the world's top-scoring single Scrabble move ever. And though no one's managed to use it yet, the theoretical highest-scoring Scrabble word out there is OXYPHENBUTAZONE. Ohioan Dan Stock found the word, which is worth 1,458 points.  Another article has it worth 1,778 points. So there are Scrabble word searchers as well as players.  What are other strange words that are now enshrined by Scrabble?  Quetzals (365) Guatemala's national bird and one of its monetary units - that was used in 1986.  Muzjiks (126) Russian peasants - the highest possible opening move score in a 2008 tournament.    Here's Millie in the snow yesterday. Purchase at: FAA - marilyncornwellart.com Redbubble - marilyncornwellart.ca