Puzzlin' Wednesday June 13 |
Did you get last Wednesday’s hint for this week? Well, the hint was Scrabble which is what this post is all about. Here I thought Scrabble was just a fun board game for a rainy day. Turns out it’s also a serious undertaking for some people. There are over 200 tournaments each year for Scrabble aficionados including the Players Championship this August in Dayton, Ohio. Players receive rankings and use timers, just like in chess, and win money prizes—up to $25,000 for the Scrabble Open. Who knew?
The National Scrabble Association and Hasbro are also building up their youth tournaments - - seems they want to compete with the National Spelling Bee for most well-known school activity. I would have loved competing in a Scrabble tournament in school! Much more fun than a boring old spelling bee. Want to know more? You can read Stefan Fatsis’ book Word Freak about his transformation from living room player to tournament player and all the unusual folks he met along the way. Or check out the club roster to find a Scrabble club near you . Next year is the 60th anniversary of the game so it’s the perfect time to take up competitive playing. If you need extra practice try downloading one of the free online games like the one at Real Arcade. According to Fatsis, today’s puzzle is a Scrabble fanatic’s idea of a good time. They try to stump each other with a scrambled word. My list has a theme--each word uses that dreaded letter “Q” and gets you lots of points.Of course it would be a pies of cake for a tournament player--memorizing the “Q” words is one of the first things they do. Good luck! A E O Q R T U H O P Q S E I PQ U A N Q R T A F I Q R Answers to Word Squares of June 6, 2007 P E T
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Jodi M. Webb |
| About the author: |
| Jodi has been leading the crazy life of a writer for over a decade--along the way she's had a 6 foot tall ostrich try to eat her camera bag, rode in a medieval cart built by high school students, and held a super-sized gold chain recovered from a shipwreck. Unfortunately the gold chain wouldn't fit in her camera bag or she'd be writing to you from a villa in Italy--not Pennsylvania. When not writing she spends her time reading mysteries and World War II histories and baking cookies.
She's also working on her first book, a mystery that reaches back into World War II for a motive. |
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