Playing the Bots on Scrabble Go -1

 Some interesting games against the bots on Scrabble Go:

Paravane was a good find:

Mairehau was not too shabby:

Agacante was a high probable find:

Need all the luck to beat the bots by 200+:

The common hitches find was nice:

The 9 timer of deciduae stood out, aikona was nice too:

Beakier was a decent find:

Smoochier was quite nice:

Nazified was nice, which takes the de prefix, clouring was not too bad:

KSSA Indian Open 2022

India's best player Sherwin Rodrigues has won the KSSA Indian Open Scrabble tournament organized by MuSigma. Here are some gameboards from the event:

Did find patinized through ZE:

and nostalgia starting with NO:

 

Nothing like yahrzeit through a floating A and poorwill(s) from the champ:

Here are some more boards from the top tables:

Scrabble Puzzle - Hook Words

The Karnataka State Scrabble Association (KSSA) recently looked at front and back hooks as part of their monthly Scrabble Shabble event.  

Can you identify the front and back hooks for the following words?

Cred, Anti, Clad, Envy, Cute, Akin, Hone, Hang, Bore, Aura, Plink, Plook, Onium, Samba, and Redia

Crescent City Cup 2022

A fabulous tournament with some excellent game coverage from Will Anderson and Conrad Bassett-Bouchard. The post-game analysis is a must-watch. Dave Koening ran out the winner. Here are some game boards from organizer and runner up Austin Shin:

Game 1 was a 476-410 win for Austin, Conidian was a nice play:

Game 2 ended up in a 418-451 loss. Interestingly at one point, both players had the exact same rack AEIMORT. Tribunal or turbinal would have clinched it:

Game 3 ended up in a 408-431 loss:

Game 4 was a huge 528-312 win, aided by the 9X ferrites:

Game 5 was a 407-493 loss:

Game 6 was a big 576-372 win, thanks to 5 bingos:

Game 7 was a good 486-389 win:

Game 8 ended up in a 546-384 win:

Game 9 resulted in a 401-445 loss, Fedayeen was nice:

Game 10 was a 468-326 win, and the scoring never stops en route  to an 8 game win streak:

Game 11 was a narrow 417-408 win, veratrium was a phoney but terrarium would have been a valid 9:

Game 12 was a come from behind (125 points) win, after surviving the 9X play staggier:

Game 13 a game between National champions ended in a 472-377 win. Parquets would have scored 137: 

Game 14 was a 512-392 win, prosely was a phoney, only leprosy in that rack:

Game 15 was a come from behind (135 points) win, the parallel play of brownest was nice, acini almost stopped the comeback blocking wiremen. Quins left no vowels and resulted in a VVJ rack for the opponent, which secured the 477-470 win:

Game 16 was a 506-420 win, meadowed was a phoney:

Game 17 was a 464-437win, budgies secured the win:

Game 18 saw the 8 game win streak come to an end with a 352-452 loss:

Game 19 began a 2 game series with the eventual champion and ended in a 416-525 loss:

Game 20 shows you why scrabble can be a game of inches, the play of iodic would have stopped anhedral that came right after agio was played and completely changed the game resulting in a 352-454 loss:

All in all a great tournament, with some great coverage.

Scrabble Puzzles

Can you find the best plays in the scrabble puzzles below? These are courtesy of my colleague Srinivas:

Wordaholix Scrabble League 2021

The 2021 edition of the Wordaholix league concluded in September. Team Vorago ran out the winner. Here are some game boards from the participants Ishika, Rahil, and Samrath: