Who is the best scrabble player

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Manju Sood. Serge Emig. Mark Smith. Matthew Pinner. Jason Tsang Wai Yin. Beyond all that is the sheer virtuosity of his gameplay, his uncanny gift for constructing impossible words by stringing his letters through tiles already on the board.

Instead, Richards played through two disconnected Os and an E. The word? You draw seven lettered tiles from a bag initially containing — 42 vowels, 56 consonants, and two wild-card blanks, each with an associated point value — and you take turns making words on the board, a by grid. Bonus squares enhance the value of your plays.

You replenish your rack after each turn until the bag is empty or until your little brother flips the board in anger , and the player with the most points at the end wins. Simple enough. But consider that there are more than 16 billion ways to draw seven tiles out of a bag of And consider that there are just shy of , valid Scrabble words.

A good competitive player will have memorized a sizeable chunk of the 83, words that are two letters to eight letters long. A great player will know a lot of the 29, nine-letter words as well. The longer words are especially useful because they can be used to bingo. A good tournament player will bingo about twice a game. Competitive Scrabble tournament games are played one-on-one, with a clock. Each player gets 25 minutes to complete all of her turns, and a good player will average upwards of points a game.

A rating is based on the rating of her opponents and the outcomes of games. Win, and her rating ticks up. Lose, it goes down. Beat a much higher-rated player, and it goes up a lot. These are akin to Elo ratings in chess , and are determined with fairly complex formulae. The median rating of a tournament player is roughly To crack the top in the country, it takes a rating of Top about His peak rating of is the highest anyone has ever achieved with a minimum of games played.

According to Scrabble data site cross-tables. The annual National Championship — a game marathon — is the biggest and most prestigious tournament in the country.

Currently, players are registered, with 92 in the elite first division, competing for the title. Ninety-one of them will be chasing Nigel Richards.