The World Scrabble Championship has kicked off in Lille France. Here are the top 50 after the first day of proceedings from Nicky Deco via Facebook:
A Compilation of the latest scrabble news, games, puzzles and tournament buzz to help you to get better at the game.
Wednesday 31 August 2016
Saturday 27 August 2016
Tracking Our Kids at the World Youth Scrabble Championships
The World Youth Scrabble Championship has concluded in Lille France. India had 8 participants this time around. Big congratulations to all the kids. Here's how they finished from the coverage from Lille:
Player
|
Win
|
Loss
|
Spread
|
Rank
|
Aditya Iyengar
|
16
|
8
|
1705
|
5
|
Vraj Jain
|
15
|
9
|
69
|
17
|
Samrath Singh Bhatia
|
14.5
|
9.5
|
903
|
18
|
Yash Potnis
|
13
|
11
|
267
|
41
|
Vedika Hingorani
|
11
|
13
|
-178
|
74
|
Vihaan Hingorani
|
10
|
14
|
110
|
84
|
Aishwarya Naidu
|
9.5
|
14.5
|
-907
|
95
|
Udey Singh
|
8
|
16
|
-1222
|
103
|
Wednesday 24 August 2016
Some Handy Animal Words in Scrabble
Here is a visual representation of some useful animal words that can be played in Scrabble from word buff author Derek Mckenzie:
Monday 15 August 2016
Useful Scrabble Score Sheet
Here is a very useful scrabble scoring/tile tracking sheet from one of my colleagues Shankar in the Bangalore Scrabble Club. I often struggle with tile tracking and it has cost me games. Hope this one does the trick.
Bangalore Scrabble League Tournament 2016 - Standings as on August 15
The Bangalore Scrabble League Tournament 2016 is reaching its climax with just under a month to go. Here are the updated standings. Nupur has won it and Manju is guaranteed second place:
|
Standings
|
Player
|
Handicap
|
Win
|
Loss
|
Spread
|
Average
Game Score
|
|
1
|
NUPUR
|
-20
|
33
|
9
|
2030
|
401
|
|
2
|
MANJU
|
-45
|
33
|
11
|
2257
|
404
|
|
3
|
SANJOY
|
-65
|
31
|
13
|
2102
|
393
|
|
4
|
RAJVEER
|
-55
|
28
|
12
|
1656
|
397
|
|
5
|
MOHSIN
|
-60
|
25
|
15
|
2139
|
414
|
|
6
|
LENNIE
|
-35
|
23
|
18
|
405
|
382
|
|
7
|
SHANKAR
|
25
|
23
|
20
|
36
|
390
|
|
8
|
NALINI
|
-20
|
22
|
21
|
484
|
392
|
|
9
|
HEMANTH
|
0
|
21
|
19
|
1186
|
397
|
|
10
|
SARAS
|
0
|
21
|
21
|
321
|
400
|
|
11
|
YASH
|
0
|
20
|
19
|
423
|
393
|
|
12
|
DIPANKAR
|
-35
|
20
|
22
|
-947
|
370
|
|
13
|
VIDYA
|
15
|
19
|
23
|
-225
|
378
|
|
14
|
RADHIKA
|
-35
|
19
|
17
|
-280
|
390
|
|
15
|
CHRIS
|
10
|
17
|
27
|
-686
|
376
|
|
16
|
REX
|
-10
|
16
|
22
|
-535
|
369
|
|
17
|
HARSH
|
45
|
14
|
22
|
-990
|
395
|
|
18
|
SHAILAJA
|
15
|
13
|
21
|
-1257
|
377
|
|
19
|
ARVIND
|
10
|
12
|
26
|
-1779
|
379
|
|
20
|
AUBREY
|
0
|
12
|
24
|
-1404
|
353
|
|
21
|
NEELAM
|
10
|
10
|
23
|
-1171
|
368
|
|
22
|
DEEPA
|
40
|
9
|
28
|
-1925
|
367
|
|
23
|
VASAVA
|
45
|
1
|
5
|
-550
|
343
|
|
24
|
GIRISH
|
40
|
0
|
4
|
-617
|
309
|
|
25
|
SHILPA
|
45
|
0
|
1
|
-296
|
284
|