There are no words for it: a Scrabble champ passes out | The Jewish Chronicle

[Victor Steinbok]

There is a whole bunch of stuff here, from using Yiddishisms in
Scrabble, to a puzzling high-scoring word to a mishearing by reporters.
Plus you have a 55 year old Jew in Scotland passing out from playing
scrabble!

http://goo.gl/tuhVI
There are no words for it: a Scrabble champ passes out
> ...
> "I had scored 176 for the word whatsits," Mr Tate said. "I'm very keen
> to try the challenge again, maybe this winter."
> Media reporting his collapse initially said that Mr Tate, ranked 6th
> in Scottish Scrabble and 293rd in the world, had been "fasting for
> Passover", and that the fast had contributed to his collapse.
> "That would have been a strange thing to have been doing," he said.
> "My wife spoke to a reporter and said she was glad Pesach had passed,
> and they must have misheard."
> He said his Jewish knowledge often helped him win games of Scrabble.
> "You can use Hebrew letters, spelt out, like aleph or gimmel, and you
> can use some Yiddish words."

Here's a question for Scrabble players--can you use different spellings
of the same word in the same game? With Yiddishisms, it almost has to be
a given. ;-)

     VS-)

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