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The high level players will memorize all 3 letter words and sometimes 4 letter words as well. Their scrabble-dictionary vocabularies are incredible. Here's an
by kyleblarson 8y ago
The high level players will memorize all 3 letter words and sometimes 4 letter words as well. Their scrabble-dictionary vocabularies are incredible. Here's an old article about the highest score ever (at the time). It included a triple triple worth 365 points alone for QUIXOTRY.
https://slate.com/technology/2006/10/830-how-a-carpenter-got-the-highest-scrabble-score-ever.html https://slate.com/technology/2006/10/830-how-a-carpenter-got...
- sethrin 8y agoWhat odds would you give that that word has been used more than five times in the history of English literature?
- gwern 8y agoTurns out to be both more common and mean something a little different than I thought: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=quixotry&year_start=1900&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cquixotry%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=quixotry&year_... https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&q=quixotry https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&q=quixotry
- notahacker 8y agoGoogle Books returns over 8000 results, and some of them aren't even dictionaries!
- sethrin 8y agoThe corpus I searched returned no results, but I'll take the correction: mea culpa.
- krackers 8y agoQuixotic which I think that's derived from isn't that obscure.
- cdelsolar 8y agothe high level players will memorize all words until 9 letters, and some even know those and beyond. I know all the 2-8 (approximately 80K words) pretty well, although not as well as I'd like.
- widforss 8y agoI don't understand why the article portraits the described game as unworthy of the high score. An experienced player will always hedge, and thereby the high scores will all go to less bothered players gambling their way to a win.