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

[Paul Johnston]

He's doing it in English, of course,but given the structure of the alphabet, I wonder what Hebrew (or Yiddish) scrabble would be like!

On Apr 19, 2012, at 12:26 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:

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> 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!
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> 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."
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> 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. ;-)
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