October 2002
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
6h 58m
English
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Preface
I’m a pretty good casual Scrabble® player. Not a great one, mind you, but good enough so that close friends and family don’t much like playing with me. (My sister claims that she doesn’t like to play with me because I always cheated when we played games as kids, but I have no recollection of that.) I have a decent-sized vocabulary, I’m a good speller, and I’ve been doing the New York Times Crossword since I worked at HP and my manager, Lee, taught me the basics, so I now know all kinds of otherwise-useless crossword-puzzle words. But I’m still far from a great player.
A friend of mine, who’s among the brightest people I know, told me about a friend of his who’s a top competitive Scrabble player. He’d never played him before, so he challenged him to a game one day. On his second turn, my friend had six common letters in his rack, UDINTS, plus the blank (which, for those of you uninitiated in the ways of Scrabble, can be used as any letter). He was sure there were plays that would let him bingo -- play all seven of his letters and earn a coveted 50 point bonus.
He told his opponent as much, who replied, “Well, let me see!” After looking over the tiles for a moment, he said, “Oh, yeah, there are at least 15 bingos there.” Somewhat incredulously, my friend said, “Yeah, right. What are they?” To which his opponent replied, “You could make your blank any of AEFILMQRGNU, and make any of the following across the E:
| Making it an “A”: AUDIENTS |
| Making it an “E”: DETINUES |
| Making it an ... |
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