I had GPODNIS on my rack, and room to play the S at the end of my opponent’s ZOOM.
I think I remember every single Scrabble bingo triumph in my life, and now I have a new one: playing PONGIDS for a total play of 152, including the points for ZOOMS and the 50 point bingo bonus.
Playing Super Scrabble, I had two blanks, two Zs and built off of a pre-existing P to get “pizzazzy” with a Z on the double letter and the Y on the quadruple word score which also completed the word “jumpy”.
I recently played my first game of scrabble in about 25 years, and it took all of one game for me to recall why I hated that game so much. It isn’t about having a good vocabulary or making long words; it’s about getting the right tiles, knowing that Qi and AA are words, and being able to add S or Y. When adding the letter Q on a triple letter score to an I nets you more points than Cadaver, something is wrong.
According to the Scrabble app on Facebook, my best word was VESTIGE for 96 points. I know I’ve gotten at least 140+ point word in Scrabble knock-off Words With Friends, but pretty much all the point totals are higher in that game.
I don’t know what my best word was but I once beat a native Spanish speaker in Scrabble in Spanish, and I barely know any Spanish past Taco Bell-level! To be honest, though, that game was kind of like watching one of those Thai boxing matches where both fighters are blindfolded.
I can’t remember the exact details, but whatever I did was a legal move. I put an X next to an A, and added an O to the X. The X happened to be on a triple letter square, and I got points for two words (ax and ox).
This one is easy for me. Playing against a rather attractive woman and losing quite badly I played my last 7 tiles to spell VAGINAS and win the game. The glory was exquisite.
Was I the only one to read the OP and immediately think the answer was going to be “dopings”? I probably was, actually, as I guess all you word nuts would instantly know that’s not a valid word :). Perhaps it should be, for example: “How many dopings [doping scandals] will it take for cycling to clean up its act?”.
Once I played a strip Scrabble game and won twice.
It was just two players and the rule was if you made a play for 25 points or more, your opponent removed an article of clothing OR you could put one back on. I think I ended with >400 points; I was highly motivated.