A Scrabble Champ's Words With Friends Secrets
Friday, March 30, 2012 - 08:20
in Psychology & Sociology
“Here’s the story of the only truly awesome play I’ve ever made,” Jason Katz-Brown told me when I interviewed him for my book, Brain Trust — Katz-Brown is a former US #1-ranked Scrabble player, and co-creator with John O’Laughlin of the gold-standard wordplay site Quackle, so when he talks awesome plays, less-awesome players like me listen. “There were two tiles left in the bag and I was down by, like, a hundred points, holding E-G-I-N-S-Y-Blank,” says Katz-Brown. There are a lot of bingos he could’ve played from this bunch — words that use all seven tiles and thus score an additional fifty bonus points. read more