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Sunday 14 February 2016

Bangalore Scrabble League Tournament 2016 Kicks off

Chris Imison's brain child the Bangalore Scrabble League Tournament 2016 has kicked off. To level the playing field handicaps have been issued to each player based on their India ratings. There are 27 players in the fray. Each player plays another twice face to face by August 2016. That implies each player completes 54 games in 6 months. A total prize money of Rs 10,000 is on offer. The entry fee is Rs 500 per player. Here are the participants:
CONFIRMED ENTRANTS RATING HANDICAP
SANJOY  1589 -65
MOHSIN 1533 -60
RAJVEER 1482 -55
MANJU 1406 -45
RADHIKA 1295 -35
LENNIE 1275 -35
DIPANKAR 1262 -35
NALINI 1162 -20
VINOD 1160 -20
NUPUR 1133 -20
UMITA 1093 -15
REX 1049 -10
YASH 943 0
SARAS 935 0
AUBREY 968 0
HEMANTH 900 5
NEELAM 838 10
CHRIS 834 10
ARVIND 832 10
VIDYA 822 15
SHAILAJA 796 15
SHANKAR 720 25
DEEPA 548 40
GIRISH 539 40
HARSH 500 45
JIVITESH 500 45
CHIRAG 500 45

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Friday 27 November 2015

Wordaholix Scrabble League II - Suzerains Win

Team Suzerains lifted the second edition of the Wordaholix Scrabble league edging out the Ardrighs 97-94.5. Here are the complete standings along with individual player performances:


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Saturday 21 November 2015

Wordaholix Scrabble League, Standings after Day 2

The 6 team Wordaholix Scrabble League has started. The Suzerains are on top. Here are the standings after the second day:

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Sunday 30 August 2015

Second Edition of the Wordaholix Scrabble League this November

The organizers of the Wordaholix league have announced that the second edition of the Wordaholix scrabble league will take place this November. Here are the details:

 Dates: Nov 20,21 & 22, 2015.

Venue:  
HOTEL TUNGA INTERNATIONAL PVT LTD,
B-11, MIDC , CENTRAL ROAD,
ANDHERI EAST, MUMBAI - 400 093.

Timings:
Day 1- 9a.m- 6p.m
Day 2- 8a.m- 6p.m
Day 3- 8a.m- 6p.m

Fees:
NYTS Fall. 468x90
Cheques for ₹5000/- to be made out to Wordaholix Mindfield LLP.
Alternately direct transfers can be made to Wordaholix Mindfield LLP,
ICICI Bank,
Account no: 036605001359
IFSC code is ICIC0000366
Last date for payment is September 30th,2015.

Tournament Details:
Dictionary-CSW 15
Number of games and teams will be announced once all  entries are confirmed.

Players registered so far:
1) Ritu Chadha
2) Carol Pais
3) Sylvia Coelho
4) Kala Ganesh
5) Parvathy Raghunathan
6) Rekha Sanzgiri 
7) Caryl Gonsalvez
8) Nikheel Ruparel
9) Radhika Mahalingaiah
10) R. Nalini
11) Sherwin Rodrigues 
12) Varisht Hingorani 
13) Rehet Singh Bhatia 
14) Vedika Hingorani 
15) Vraj Jain
16) Sudhir Kamath
17) Rajeev Menon
18) Nakul Prabhu
19) Manju Pai
20) Romilla Thakur
21) Saraswati Ramanohar
22)Mangala Bhandarkar 
23) Sridhar Paidikondala 
24)Dhyan Gandhi 
25) Prateek Wadhavkar 
26)Meena Kalyan
27) Sunny Bhatia
28) Bhushan Pradhan 
29) Abhijit Pradhan 
30) P.C. Jose
31) Ramchandran 
32) Viji Ramchandran 
33) Priya Karkhanis 
34) Lennie D'Souza
35) Rex D'Souza
36) Shaikh Ahmed
37) M.H. Quraishi 
38) Neena Shahani
39) Zeba Sultan
40) Meena Bakhru 
41) Krtin Juneja
42) Sanjay Bijlani 
43) Ramchandran Chidambaram
44) Udayan Grover
45) Aruna Grover

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Thursday 28 May 2015

Altezas Win Inaugural Edition of the Wordaholix Scrabble League

The Altezas led right from the start to capture the title at the inaugural edition of the Wordaholix scrabble league. They did this winning 94 out of the 168 games played registering an impressive spread of 2094. Team Diadochi came in a close second with 90.5 wins. The final standings after 3 days of exhilarating competition are as follows:
Team
Standings
Win-Loss
Spread
Altezas
1
94-74
+2094
Diadochi
2
90.5-77.5
+920
Caziques
3
82.5-85.5
-457
Bashaws
4
69-99
-2557
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Tuesday 26 May 2015

Wordaholix Scrabble League - Altezas still on Top after Day 2

After the second day of proceedings at the Wordaholix Scrabble League the Altezas are still on top. However team Diadochi has made a nice run and is only 4 games away from the leaders. Some terrific individual performances from Udayan, Sherwin, Carol, Jose and Shaikh. Hear are the updated standings after day 2:
Team
Standings
Win-Loss
Spread
Altezas
1
65-54
+1886
Diadochi
2
61-58
+298
Caziques
3
58-61
-1233
Bashaws
4
54-65
-951
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Monday 25 May 2015

Wordaholix Scrabble League - Altezas on Top after Day 1

The Wordaholix Scrabble League kicked off yesterday. The Altezas are off to a quick start with 32 wins out of the 56 games played. Here are the complete standings:

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Different Words Same Meaning

Citolas, Citoles, Cithrens, Citherns, Cithers, Citterns - A Guitar
Waivode, Waiwode, Woiwode, Voivode - An army leader
Cagouls, Cagoules, Kagouls, Kagoules, Kagools - An anorak
Eulachan, Eulachon, Oulachon, Oulakan, Oolakan, Ulikon - A candlefish
Kiester, Keister, Hurdies, Patootie - The Buttocks
Didakei, didakai, Diddicoy, Didicoi, Didicoy - A Tinker
Cabala, Cabbala, Kabala, Kabbala, Kabbalah, Qabala, Qabalah - a Jewish doctrine
Yoghurt, Yaourt, Yogurt, Yoghourt - A type of curd
Narwal, Narwhal, Narwhale - An Arctic aquatic mammal
Lekythus, Lecythus, Lekythos - An ancient oil Jar
Germen, Germain, Germaine, Germin - Something that serves as an origin
Filemot, Philomot, Philamot - A dull brown shade
keblah, Kibla, Kiblah, Qibla - The direction muslims face while praying
Litchi, Lichi, Lychee, Lichee - A fruit
Poursue, Pursue, Persue, Poursew Pursew - To follow
Pummelo, Shaddock, Pompelo - A citrus fruit
Repreeve, Reprive, Repryve - To delay
Baklava, Baklawa, Baclava - A middle eastern desert
Nilgai, Nilgau, Nilghai, Nilghau, Nylghai, Nylghau - a large antelope
Cassina, Cassene, Cassine, Cassena - an evergreen tree
Narghile, Narghily, Nargile, Nargileh, Nargily - a hookah
Dirdam, Dirdum, Durdum - uproar
Shechita, Shehitah, Shehita - krosher killing of animals
Mezuzot, Mezuzoth, Mezuzah, Mezuza - a Jewish scroll

Combo Words of Two Words that are Good Both Ways

Bedrail - Railbed
Dovering - Ringdove
Hangover - Overhang
Turnover - Overturn
Runover - Overrun
Roadside - Sideroad
Outburn - Burnout
Woodworm - Wormwood
Linecut - Cutline
Outpass - Passout
Outspeak - Speakout
Comedown - Downcome
Upclose - Closeup
Outback - Backout
Pinhead - Headpin
Mateship - Shipmate
Cutover - Overcut
Upstart - Startup
Outshoot - Shootout
Overwing - Wingover
Fantail - Tailfan

Common Words with Not so common Anagrams

Tailors - Oralist, Rialtos, Sliotar
Almonds - Dolmans
Mustard - Durmast
Stadium - Dumaist
Romance - Cremona
Cauldron - Crunodal
Acolyte - Cotylae
Cilantro - Contrail
Decagon - Congaed
Ethical - Alethic
Strongly - Strongyl
Ungrazed - Gazunder
Expires - Prexies
Detangle - Danegelt
Teardown - Danewort
Erasions - Sensoria
Innovate - Venation
Inundate - Antidune
Invocate - Conative
Antidote - Tetanoid
Liaises - Silesia
Coalise - Celosia
Isotherm - Moithers
Heroism - Moreish
Sedation - Astonied
Marries - Simarre
Tsunami - Manitus, Santimu
Cheerio - Echoier


Those Handy Pyramid Words!

Pyramid words are words which start at 2 letters but can be extended to 7 letters and beyond. For example take the word loofahs, we start with lo, next we get to loo, followed by loof, loofa, loofah and loofahs. Thus by knowing loofahs we get to know a total of 6 words. Other examples include:
Abasers, Amenders, Amusers, Barbers, Bingers, Chained,
Chiasmal, Daledhs, Divests, Erasers, Fasties, Godsons, Hookahs, Jambees, Jamboks, Kaingas, Kinases, Lapsers, Maliced, Mentors, Nursery, Parkiest, Poleyns, Reeders, Reposes, Singers, Skaters,Tapetis, Teasers, Ureases, and Woosells.

There are some reverse pyramid words too. Take the word drooped for example, we start with ed, then ped, then oped, then ooped, rooped and finally drooped.Other examples include:
Aemules, Afeared, Borates, Cleared, Demures, Escapes, Glaired, Hamates, Lemures, Mananas, Penates, Retapes, Scraped, Testates, Upreach, Vacates, Whooped, Yslaked and Zananas.