From: tycchow@riesz.mit.edu (Timothy Y. Chow)
Subject: Re: Scrabble score 1669
Organization: None.  This saves me from writing a disclaimer.
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 00:29:27 GMT

Here's another interesting old article regarding high Scrabble scores.

>From: gay@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (Lance Gay)
>Message-ID: <576@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM>
>Date: 8 May 90 18:26:42 GMT
>
>The following example of a SCRABBLE game produced a score of 2448 for one
>player and 1175 for the final word.  It is taken from _Beyond Language_ (1967)
>by Dmitri Borgman (pp. 217-218).  He credits this solution to Mrs. Josefa H.
>Byrne of San Francisco and implies that all words can be found in _Webster's
>Second Edition_.  The two large words (multiplied by 27 as they span 3 triple
>word scores) are ZOOPSYCHOLOGIST (a psychologist who treats animals rather
>than humans) and PREJUDICATENESS (the condition or state of being decided 
>beforehand).  The asterisks (*) represent the blank tiles. (Please excuse
>any typo's).
>
>           Board                        Player1                 Player2
>
>Z O O P S Y C H O L O G I S T    ABILITY             76   ERI, YE     9
>O N         H A   U     R O W    MAN, MI             10   EN          2
>*         R I B   R O V E   I    FEN, FUN            14   MANIA       7
>L           T I K E         G    TABU                12   RIB         6
>O             L                  NEXT                11   AM          4
>G             I                  AX                   9   END         6
>I             T                  IT, TIKE            10   LURE        6
>*             Y E                LEND, LOGIC*AL      79   OO*LOGICAL  8
>A               R                FUND, JUD           27   ATE, MA     7
>L E N D       M I                ROVE                14   LO          2
>    E         A             Q    DARE, DE            13   ES, ES, RE  6 
>W A X     F E N             U    RE, ROW             14   IRE, IS, SO 7
>E   T A B U   I             A    DARED, QUAD         22   ON          4
>E         N   A M   D A R E D    WAX, WEE            27   WIG         9
>P R E J U D I C A T E N E S S    CHIT, HA            14   ON          2
>                                 PREJUDICATENESS,
>                                   AN, MANIAC,
>                                   QUADS, WEEP      911   OOP         8
>                                 ZOOPSYCHOLOGIST,
>                                   HABILITY, TWIG,
>                                   ZOOLOGICAL      1175
>                                 --------------------------------------
>                                 Total:            2438              93
>
>                                 F, N, V, T in 
>                                 loser's hand:      +10             -10
>                                 --------------------------------------
>                                 Final Score:      2448              83
>
>Lance Gay                                    Internet: gay@venice.sedd.trw.com
>TRW Systems Engineering & Development Div.   Phone: 213-764-9292
>Redondo Beach, CA  90278
-- 
Tim Chow     tycchow@math.mit.edu
Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs
30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and weigh
only 1 1/2 tons.                               ---Popular Mechanics, March 1949
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