I can tell that watching your videos has helped me with looking for bingos in Scrabble games. As soon as the letters came in at 3:57, I knew instantly what the word was going to be. Fantastic.
I did the same, but I think the only reason for that was because I knew it was going to be a high scoring word and that logically the Q needed to be on the double letter space
When I was doing an exercise I was trying to figure out what the highest scoring word that could be realistically played in a game would be the word I came up with is Quartzite, with the Z landing on a double letter with the u and e landing on triple word spots for 383 points. The problem with that is it’s 9 letters long so would require an IT or AR overlap play on the triple lane. It’s cool to see how close this play came to the maximum that I found.
I was looking recently through the new words added for CSW 2024 (for curiosity rather than study). Can't wait for some to get down a triple-triple FAUXHAWK for 374.
@@wanderer15 I’m a complete newbie at scrabble and I’m from Sweden, yet even I was thinking to myself that “adequacy” was the word there. Love a good move like that one
I like the irony of the 347 point word being AD(E)QUACY. It has the same energy of a constructed board Mac Meller once showcased that extended ORDINARY to UNEXTRAORDINARY.
Got recently back into scrabble against my dad - I hooked Maker into Makers with the S of Gushed on the bottom corner triple. Not a world beater but i was very proud. Love the channel dude
Ok but has anyone ever played a 2 letter word consisting of 2 blanks for 0 points? Somehow that being an optimal move it crazier to me than any high scoring triple triple lmao
I've heard that that's happened before, probably in an endgame for some stick or setup. Mack Meller recently got hit by a play of (T)Iz for 2 by an engine, blocking Mack's only outplay and simultaneously setting up a 57-point ZOEAE hooking (TIz)Z, which almost won the bot the game.
I’ve never scored so many points for a 9-timer. However, I played two 9-timers in a tournament game against Ruth Macinerny in Luton: ABLATI(O)N for 149, and then QUARTE(R)S for 212. At a club game in Mumbai, I also got two 9-timers against Hriday Samtani: DUNG(H)EAP for 185 and then LO(N)GNESs for 140. There was no collusion. I just had the right tiles at the right time.
First time actually seeing one of these game-winning plays myself! Even then it's a lot more impressive being able to see it over the board. Way to seize both an opportunity and a game!
According to a book I have the highest score played in a tournament was by Karl Khoshnaw who played CAZIQUES for 392. However this was in 1982 which I think was before officially sanctioned tournaments under a single organization so it apparently is not counted. It was however recorded as was the entire game, his opponent being Elizabeth McLymont, the final scores being 697 to 485 for a total of 1182.
Hey Will, I loved this video! Excited to see the highest ever score non-triple-triple play in tournament play, or perhaps highest scoring non-bingo play ever?
You're not allowed to resign in tournaments, because point spread is a tiebreaker. You're also not allowed to intentionally help your opponent, i'm pretty sure.
Okay i'm only 0:07 in and I got stumped for a few seconds thinking is hoMEOWner even a word? I was pronouncing it in my head Ho-MEOW-ner like some sort of cat pun 😅
Amazingly, it's actually a "normal" word that ordinary players can find! I paused the video and found it myself in about 10-15 seconds. That makes it doubly cool to me that the highest scoring play isn't some antiquated spelling of a term used for a butcher's mother or species of tree found only in Sri Lanka.
Is there any reason that Piotr didn't use his KUTCHA hook during the endgame? I might be missing something but it seems to score better than hooking AIA
Factoid I didn't manage to fit into the video - the game and full match occurred at Robert's home! Maybe I should've called this video "The Most Disrespectful House Guest Of All Time" :)
@@wanderer15 When you say that this was the highest-scoring play you've ever seen, does that mean you were at Robert's home at the time the play was made?
The Cresta vs Yorra game would make a great video in itself, especially since you can talk about the differences between club level play and top level play (Cresta's QUIXOT(R)Y play never happens if Yorra plays his much better bingo of dEM(O)CRAT instead of (S)CAMsTER for example.)
I've been saving that one for a rainy day for sure! There's also a really fun video of it here: th-cam.com/video/JDkT89m_CvA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=sAaqSsV3Vdn6sx5j
Hey will, love your vids. To build off of this video, I was hoping you could make a vid on the highest scoring plays while playing just one letter, just two letters, etc. (or if that’s too hard to research just a vid on the highest scoring nonbingos) Thanks for all the great content!
my only triple triple, I was staring at a rack of AEOLRZ?. I quickly spotted ZEAL and then ZEALOt, and looking around the board I saw there was a T at the perfect spot in the top row to hit the top-left triple with ZEALOT... except that meant I didn't need my blank for the T, which allowed ZEALOTRy for 203. Wound up winning that game something like 579-134 against an opponent who was very much not a competitive player and wasn't even keeping score -- after we finished he just asked "so how did you do" and I said "very well thank you". That said, the play I'm most proud of is probably the time I had EIUCQST and while I was staring at QUITE or QUIET, I also saw potential for QUIESCE if I could find an E on the board... but instead of an E, I found an EN for QUIESC(EN)T.
This is the earliest I've ever been to any video! Just wanna say that I've only ever played Scrabble with my grandmother and cousins, and have some screenshots from the wacky boards we ended up with; youd think we were Michael Richards with all the small setup words and occasional brilliancies (albeit we allowed dictionaries during play). Your videos remind me of those times and remind me why Scrabble is so fun! I'm in a new country now, hopefully my grandmother stays healthy and I can get to play a game with her again, I already lost my other grandma on my mother's side last year
@@lukecoleman3643 Yeah, that was autocorrect doing its usual nonsense 🥲. But Nigel is the G.O.A.T. just like Michael Jordan, so autocorrect might be on to something
The photographer in me is disappointed that Richard declined the opportunity to play Nifty for 50 points, since every photographer ought to start out with a Nifty Fifty.
My top move ever was Quixotic for... idk what the exact score was but it was a moment in my household and I think it was the last time I ever played with my family because i was getting really good at that point.
-- I got a score of 130 a month ago and my friends and family kept hearing about it for weeks, so this? -- I would recommend asking viewers to pause when you're about to reveal some big moment, as you've sometimes done. It's fun to try. I was eyeing "Aqueducty" -- probably would have scored far, far less with that. -- When you say highest score "that I have seen." do you mean that you were at the tournament, or that you viewed via video, or...?
Question out of curiosity Most of the professional players we see show up in the videos either have English as their L1 or L2 (i.e. a language that is considered native or “adopted” in the speaker’s home country) however I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone in your videos who speaks English as a foreign language. Are there any examples of this in professional play? Like how Nigel won in Spanish and French, but the other way around?
Years ago, I was down big so I hung an E on the 9x line, leaving QUIZ? I drew RS, giving me QUIZz(e)RS for 455 . . . but it wasn't my turn. Predictably, my opponent blocked. 😞
The highest I've ever hit is PROVENLY for 230. Funny thing was it was kinda accidental - I reflexively pounced on the opened triple lane with with PROVE.. then noticed the N... and finally noticed the LY as well.
That's a courtesy for North America-based tournament players - the # symbol represents a word that is only valid in the Collins dictionary that is standard outside of the U.S. and Canada (and which has some usage in North America as well).
I've never got a triple triple. I only play against one person and they would never lay a tile in between 2 triple word scores like that! My highest is 105 for topiary with the r hooking cleve to make clever, and across 2 double word scores.
funny to use an alternative definition/pronunciation of VOUGE - unless that was unintentional? (or by some chance is VOUGE not a word bc it's french, but i never knew this w.r.t scrabble because of this alternate meaning??)
My mother played QUIXOTIC for 356 points.
It happened at home without media coverage LOL
Nice one mom!
That's the kind of thing that gets people to stop playing with you😂
INCREDIBLE 🔥
I can only imagine her pupils catching fire like your score in Balatro when she dunked on you like that.
don't remind me of ho(meow)ner i have never recovered from it 😭😭
Successful kity!!
I can tell that watching your videos has helped me with looking for bingos in Scrabble games. As soon as the letters came in at 3:57, I knew instantly what the word was going to be. Fantastic.
I did the same, but I think the only reason for that was because I knew it was going to be a high scoring word and that logically the Q needed to be on the double letter space
I think my favorite part of this play is that the word isn't something obscure like BEAUXITE or CAZIQUES or QUIXOTRY
Agreed! (people *really* did not like BEAUXITE in the comments of that video...)
When I was doing an exercise I was trying to figure out what the highest scoring word that could be realistically played in a game would be the word I came up with is Quartzite, with the Z landing on a double letter with the u and e landing on triple word spots for 383 points. The problem with that is it’s 9 letters long so would require an IT or AR overlap play on the triple lane. It’s cool to see how close this play came to the maximum that I found.
I was looking recently through the new words added for CSW 2024 (for curiosity rather than study). Can't wait for some to get down a triple-triple FAUXHAWK for 374.
@@wanderer15 I’m a complete newbie at scrabble and I’m from Sweden, yet even I was thinking to myself that “adequacy” was the word there. Love a good move like that one
His genius was recognizing it's adequacy
I really appreciate the PogChamp at 1:14.
I like the irony of the 347 point word being AD(E)QUACY. It has the same energy of a constructed board Mac Meller once showcased that extended ORDINARY to UNEXTRAORDINARY.
I once constructed a board where the solution was extending DOUBLE to REDOUBLED over two double words
@100beep5 I had a real game where my opponent and I both played JOINT off of the J. I'd put that picture by the word's dictionary definition.
Wow... just when you don't expect it, Will drops one great storytelling analytical video
Got recently back into scrabble against my dad - I hooked Maker into Makers with the S of Gushed on the bottom corner triple. Not a world beater but i was very proud. Love the channel dude
I like how with all the obscure words played in Scrabble, this play was made with a fairly common one.
I’m really amazed you only now tackle this video idea so I’m all here for it!
Ok but has anyone ever played a 2 letter word consisting of 2 blanks for 0 points? Somehow that being an optimal move it crazier to me than any high scoring triple triple lmao
That's basically impossible unless you play them on the first turn. Otherwise the blank hooks onto something and scores points :P
I have in an endgame I already won, just for style points. (not the optimal move)
@@coldwolfxd6086 No, you can play a blank next to an already played blank
I've heard that that's happened before, probably in an endgame for some stick or setup. Mack Meller recently got hit by a play of (T)Iz for 2 by an engine, blocking Mack's only outplay and simultaneously setting up a 57-point ZOEAE hooking (TIz)Z, which almost won the bot the game.
@@coldwolfxd6086 Not necessarily. You could hook the first blank on the board with the second one to make a two letter word for zero.
Just seeing the thumbnail of this video, I knew I was in for a real treat. Thanks so much for this.
I’ve never scored so many points for a 9-timer. However, I played two 9-timers in a tournament game against Ruth Macinerny in Luton: ABLATI(O)N for 149, and then QUARTE(R)S for 212. At a club game in Mumbai, I also got two 9-timers against Hriday Samtani: DUNG(H)EAP for 185 and then LO(N)GNESs for 140. There was no collusion. I just had the right tiles at the right time.
What are "9-timers"?
I was playing online on the internet scrabble club and managed to get down 'unequals', aided by the 'e' to score 275!
That's a pretty legendary play...I bet the game score was pretty unequal
First time actually seeing one of these game-winning plays myself! Even then it's a lot more impressive being able to see it over the board. Way to seize both an opportunity and a game!
According to a book I have the highest score played in a tournament was by Karl Khoshnaw who played CAZIQUES for 392. However this was in 1982 which I think was before officially sanctioned tournaments under a single organization so it apparently is not counted. It was however recorded as was the entire game, his opponent being Elizabeth McLymont, the final scores being 697 to 485 for a total of 1182.
Amazing knowledge thank you!
@@oddatlas739 You are welcome :)
Great content, Will! Thanks for replying to my comment on a relatively lame Risk video years ago leading me to discover your channel!
Hey Will, I loved this video! Excited to see the highest ever score non-triple-triple play in tournament play, or perhaps highest scoring non-bingo play ever?
Definitely good suggestions
If I were in that position, just my opponent getting 347 points in a single turn I would have just shaken his hand and resigned right there lol
And deprived your opponent of getting a once-in-a-lifetime 800 score?
Unfortunately there is no "resigning" in scrabble
@@AlexDings fair point lol, in fact maybe jus support him see if 1000 is possible with support hah
You're not allowed to resign in tournaments, because point spread is a tiebreaker. You're also not allowed to intentionally help your opponent, i'm pretty sure.
@@ensiehsafary7633 I guess you could forfeit on time.
The highest word I've ever got was freewill for 167 points connecting two triple word scores. I was quite proud of that haha
That's a fantastic play! (edit: much better than capturedwill, in my humble opinion)
Okay i'm only 0:07 in and I got stumped for a few seconds thinking is hoMEOWner even a word? I was pronouncing it in my head Ho-MEOW-ner like some sort of cat pun 😅
Amazingly, it's actually a "normal" word that ordinary players can find! I paused the video and found it myself in about 10-15 seconds. That makes it doubly cool to me that the highest scoring play isn't some antiquated spelling of a term used for a butcher's mother or species of tree found only in Sri Lanka.
Thanks for (maybe?) taking a bit of inspiration from my comment a few months back!
I've seen a 400 point triple triple in computer vs computer play, but getting down in a tournament game is amazing
Thank you for going my request!
I'll describe that move as adequate
Is there any reason that Piotr didn't use his KUTCHA hook during the endgame? I might be missing something but it seems to score better than hooking AIA
I think I was still lightheaded and not thinking clearly 😂
"And it was in this position on move 8 that Robert Richland resigned the game as there is nothing more to be done here."
That was an amazing game. ADEQUACY coming down... that must have cause Robert's heart to sink.
Factoid I didn't manage to fit into the video - the game and full match occurred at Robert's home! Maybe I should've called this video "The Most Disrespectful House Guest Of All Time" :)
@@wanderer15 When you say that this was the highest-scoring play you've ever seen, does that mean you were at Robert's home at the time the play was made?
The Cresta vs Yorra game would make a great video in itself, especially since you can talk about the differences between club level play and top level play (Cresta's QUIXOT(R)Y play never happens if Yorra plays his much better bingo of dEM(O)CRAT instead of (S)CAMsTER for example.)
I've been saving that one for a rainy day for sure! There's also a really fun video of it here: th-cam.com/video/JDkT89m_CvA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=sAaqSsV3Vdn6sx5j
Hey will, love your vids. To build off of this video, I was hoping you could make a vid on the highest scoring plays while playing just one letter, just two letters, etc. (or if that’s too hard to research just a vid on the highest scoring nonbingos)
Thanks for all the great content!
1:12 How kind of him! 😊
Would've liked to know your highest scoring scrabble word!
Almost outscored his opponent with a single word. Wild.
it completely destroys my best word, 'antennas' over 2x triple words
huh, I could see AD(E)QUACY pretty much immediately with those tiles... the tile gods favoured Piotr :)
my only triple triple, I was staring at a rack of AEOLRZ?. I quickly spotted ZEAL and then ZEALOt, and looking around the board I saw there was a T at the perfect spot in the top row to hit the top-left triple with ZEALOT... except that meant I didn't need my blank for the T, which allowed ZEALOTRy for 203. Wound up winning that game something like 579-134 against an opponent who was very much not a competitive player and wasn't even keeping score -- after we finished he just asked "so how did you do" and I said "very well thank you".
That said, the play I'm most proud of is probably the time I had EIUCQST and while I was staring at QUITE or QUIET, I also saw potential for QUIESCE if I could find an E on the board... but instead of an E, I found an EN for QUIESC(EN)T.
This is the earliest I've ever been to any video! Just wanna say that I've only ever played Scrabble with my grandmother and cousins, and have some screenshots from the wacky boards we ended up with; youd think we were Michael Richards with all the small setup words and occasional brilliancies (albeit we allowed dictionaries during play). Your videos remind me of those times and remind me why Scrabble is so fun!
I'm in a new country now, hopefully my grandmother stays healthy and I can get to play a game with her again, I already lost my other grandma on my mother's side last year
Nigel*
Michael richards is crazy
@@lukecoleman3643 Yeah, that was autocorrect doing its usual nonsense 🥲. But Nigel is the G.O.A.T. just like Michael Jordan, so autocorrect might be on to something
My 2 highest scoring words were in Scrabble GO:
Flingers for 149
Hazmats for 100
I got so excited at finding flingers on a triple-triple I squealed.
The photographer in me is disappointed that Richard declined the opportunity to play Nifty for 50 points, since every photographer ought to start out with a Nifty Fifty.
At 2'00'', having double B and double-U is indeed infortunate.
808 for Piotr and heartbreak for Robert
It seems like 5 points is a pretty lenient challenge penalty. Is that the case or are those 5 points a big deal in pro level play?
My top move ever was Quixotic for... idk what the exact score was but it was a moment in my household and I think it was the last time I ever played with my family because i was getting really good at that point.
My best score in one move was a triple-triple DELEGATE for 149, though one of my opponents once dropped a 203-point triple-triple REQUEST(S) on me.
DELEGATE is a great find!
About 10 years ago I played QUEAZIER against a schoolfriend for just under 300 points. To this day he still refuses to play me again
WITHERER was my first ever triple triple, highest I've scored by far!
-- I got a score of 130 a month ago and my friends and family kept hearing about it for weeks, so this?
-- I would recommend asking viewers to pause when you're about to reveal some big moment, as you've sometimes done. It's fun to try. I was eyeing "Aqueducty" -- probably would have scored far, far less with that.
-- When you say highest score "that I have seen." do you mean that you were at the tournament, or that you viewed via video, or...?
2:03 IT'S ALL BECAUSE OF OSE, JOE
im a bit proud that i saw the bingo js from the rack XD
Question out of curiosity
Most of the professional players we see show up in the videos either have English as their L1 or L2 (i.e. a language that is considered native or “adopted” in the speaker’s home country) however I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone in your videos who speaks English as a foreign language. Are there any examples of this in professional play? Like how Nigel won in Spanish and French, but the other way around?
Years ago, I was down big so I hung an E on the 9x line, leaving QUIZ? I drew RS, giving me QUIZz(e)RS for 455 . . . but it wasn't my turn. Predictably, my opponent blocked. 😞
Bruh, how do you verse against someone who dropped a 300 point word and be like I’m gonna keep playing.
The highest I've ever hit is PROVENLY for 230. Funny thing was it was kinda accidental - I reflexively pounced on the opened triple lane with with PROVE.. then noticed the N... and finally noticed the LY as well.
My highest scoring play was "searched" across the bottom triple triple to the right side, c doubled.
More points than Harshan’s last name
When you show definitions whats the # sign mean?
That's a courtesy for North America-based tournament players - the # symbol represents a word that is only valid in the Collins dictionary that is standard outside of the U.S. and Canada (and which has some usage in North America as well).
Adequate play. 😂
Wow just WOW
My best ever was EXECUTER for 212 pts.
As you executed your opponent’s hopes of a win. 🔪 Brutal!
That’s a pretty adequate move
I've never got a triple triple. I only play against one person and they would never lay a tile in between 2 triple word scores like that! My highest is 105 for topiary with the r hooking cleve to make clever, and across 2 double word scores.
funny to use an alternative definition/pronunciation of VOUGE - unless that was unintentional?
(or by some chance is VOUGE not a word bc it's french, but i never knew this w.r.t scrabble because of this alternate meaning??)
Can't believe he missed an out bingo. It's not like something mind blowing just occurred to throw off his balance.
This brings up a great question, what’s the highest scoring move that resulted in a loss 👀
This video made me google JACULATING
I'm sad Robert didn't play nifty for fifty.
Robert got KTFO'd 😂😂😂
That'll do
Highest play you've seen literally in person?
0:36 Damn I’ve been spelling Peter wrong my whole life
(I know it’s a foreign name don’t bully me for a joke😭)
Poland!! 🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱
WOW
1:14 PAWG is my favorite word ❤️
Pogge
How dare TH-cam gatekept this from me for 24 minutes 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
Adequate
Hamburger
polska górą
POLSKA GUROM!!!
First :3