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

[Joel S. Berson]

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I'm not sure if the "champ" passed out the Jewish Chronicle instead
of the standard English dictionary.  No wonder he's ranked 6th in
Scottish Scrabble and 293rd in the world.

Joel

At 4/19/2012 12:26 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>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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