Sunday, January 22, 2012

Double Triple

There's a scrabble site I check out regularly, where they draw letters and have visitors send in the biggest point play possible (which is sometimes incredibly stupid--they'll throw way an S for an extra point) on the ever-changing board.  They update twice a day, at 9 am and 9 pm PST.

Right now the rack holds DOTCMEE (though it may be gone before you read this). Nothing too special.  Certainy can't get a bingo.  But on the board, we've got a lonely P on the top row sitting on the double letter score.  So what this amounts to is:

Triple Word Score, space, space, P, space, space, space, Triple Word Score.

Is everyone thinking what I'm thinking?  Yep, that's right,  COMPETED fits right in there.  C is three points, O one point, M three points, P three points (too bad we can't use the double letter score), E one point, T one point, E one point, D two points.  That adds up to fifteen points.  Multiply by a triple word score then by another triple word score and you get 135 point.  Plust 50 for the bingo and you end up with 185 points!  An amazing score by any measure, and actually the highest this site has seen in all its years.

Yeah, I know it's a nerdy thing to care about, but little things like this can make your day.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

the packers competed for the super bowl this year:

-- looks like that prediction is el-Wrongo!

1:48 PM, January 22, 2012  
Blogger LAGuy said...

It's hardly the only one I've gotten wrong already, and the year is young.

9:07 PM, January 22, 2012  

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