# Your greatest Scrabble triumphs **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [December 13, 2011, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-scrabble-triumphs/605971 "2011-12-13T00:30:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2011, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-scrabble-triumphs/605971/21 "2011-12-14T18:43:39Z")
One time I played “Quean”, and my opponents “kindly” pointed out that I had misspelled it. I simply looked at them and said “no. _Quean_!” as if they should know that word already. I then proceeded to give the definition and etymology. ---
**Author:** ![Rex\_Goliath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bcef8e/32.png) [@Rex\_Goliath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rex_Goliath)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2011, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-scrabble-triumphs/605971/22 "2011-12-14T20:07:52Z")
Quixotic in the top left corner. Double triple words and a triple leter on the X. It was something like 150 points, not counting whatever it connected with. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2011, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-scrabble-triumphs/605971/23 "2011-12-14T21:02:42Z")
> [@Rex\_Goliath](#): > > Quixotic in the top left corner. Double triple words and a triple leter on the X. It was something like 150 points, not counting whatever it connected with. Sorry,but if you are talking about Scrabble,that is not possible. If it was possible, it would have scored 42 x 9 = 378 + 50 (if it was a bingo) for 428.Assuming you meant the X landed on a DLS it would have scored 356 (again assuming it was a bingo) ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2012, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-scrabble-triumphs/605971/24 "2012-03-17T15:11:38Z")
Warning: This is an older thread! But I just scored 194 points for the word **equating**. This is my best ever. And it got me to wondering where I would fall in a list of averages. But I could not find such a list. What is considered a good average game score, anyone know? ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2012, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-scrabble-triumphs/605971/25 "2012-03-17T15:43:09Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > Warning: This is an older thread! > > But I just scored 194 points for the word **equating**. This is my best ever. And it got me to wondering where I would fall in a list of averages. But I could not find such a list. > > What is considered a good average game score, anyone know? Well, in real-life scrabble, a two-person score of 700 is the minimum to be considered a good game, unless it’s a really tightly-contested match. In Word Feud or Worsdmith apps, I’ve been part of games that score over a thousand, and I think 592 is my best. For a single word, I think 212 is my highest, followed by 169. Joe ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2012, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-scrabble-triumphs/605971/26 "2012-03-17T16:21:22Z")
I don’t know about Scrabble, but I play some WordsWithFriends, and my average score is about 375. Can’t remember the score exactly but it was about 100 points for ‘restive.’ Got the V on the triple letter, triple word on the R, and then the all-tile bonus. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2012, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-scrabble-triumphs/605971/27 "2012-03-18T11:10:40Z")
I’ve never played Wordswithfriends. I did just get a smart phone though, so that could change soon. I’m fairly new to playing Scrabble actually. I play against the computer on my DS. ---
**Author:** ![mcgato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac8455/32.png) [@mcgato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcgato)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2012, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-scrabble-triumphs/605971/28 "2012-03-18T22:15:03Z")
I once played the word AQUIT with the Q on a double letter score, and the T on a triple word score. The play netted about 72 points. Now most have probably already noticed what I did a few turns later, when I said, “you know, I think that I spelled that wrong.” There were a couple of forehead slaps from my opponents. Note that this was when we were in high school. ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2012, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-scrabble-triumphs/605971/29 "2012-03-18T23:59:15Z")
I turned HUG into THUGGERY for a trip-trip recently. Still lost the game, alas. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-scrabble-triumphs/605971/30 "2012-03-19T00:05:04Z")
Is it legal to use a string of letters to join two words together? I assume so. Have you ever done it or seen it done? I mean for example like putting “LI” between “INTEL” and “GENT” to make INTELLIGENT. ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-scrabble-triumphs/605971/31 "2012-03-19T00:38:34Z")
> [@Frylock](#): > > Is it legal to use a string of letters to join two words together? I assume so. Have you ever done it or seen it done? > > I mean for example like putting “LI” between “INTEL” and “GENT” to make INTELLIGENT. Yes and yes. If you had UN on your rack, you might also play UNINTELLIGENT. Just as long as all the tiles you put down are in the same row or column and leave no empty squares between the topmost and bottommost/leftmost and rightmost of the tiles you are putting down. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-scrabble-triumphs/605971/32 "2012-03-19T00:47:12Z")
**moi** played ZOOLATER across two TWS against me the other day, for 212 points. Sigh. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-scrabble-triumphs/605971/33 "2012-03-19T01:26:18Z")
Played KA in a game w/ an English teacher and her computer phD hubby; she challenged it. Her subsequent loss of turn gave me the chance to pull ahead and I ruled the game after that! She was quite disheartened, so that helped. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-scrabble-triumphs/605971/34 "2012-03-19T02:09:31Z")
My best ever was “oxidised” across two TW for 212. I can’t remember which letter was there already. The American spelling would have been more points, but it was great for the moment for what I had. ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-scrabble-triumphs/605971/36 "2012-03-19T13:56:19Z")
> [@Dead\_Cat](#): > > 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. (Since this thread has been revived and all…) Actually, ‘dopings’ is a word in the 4th edition Scrabble dictionary. I’m not sure what my best play points-wise is, but I remember getting a “nice find” for ‘dragonets’ through an exisiting ‘ag.’ ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-scrabble-triumphs/605971/37 "2012-03-19T20:07:20Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > One time I played “Quean”, and my opponents “kindly” pointed out that I had misspelled it. I simply looked at them and said “no. _Quean_!” as if they should know that word already. I then proceeded to give the definition and etymology. Shoulda just let 'em challenge it, and then you get the points and whoever challenges you loses a turn. ETA: At least according to the original Scrabble rules. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-scrabble-triumphs/605971/38 "2012-03-19T20:16:06Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Shoulda just let 'em challenge it, and then you get the points and whoever challenges you loses a turn. > > ETA: At least according to the original Scrabble rules. That’s why I was so tickled about my KA challenge, not only is my friend an English teacher but her sis (my BFF) is a world history teacher. At first I thought her challenge was a joke, till she went for the dictionary. It may have been the only time I’ve ever said, “It’s your funeral.” and meant it. (This is a family that trash-talks in Scrabble.) ---
**Author:** ![goldmund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a4c791/32.png) [@goldmund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/goldmund)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-scrabble-triumphs/605971/39 "2012-03-19T20:45:36Z")
Beat my friend this weekend for only the second time ever. Among my better words were “AVOIDED” for a bingo, “PEYOTE” on a triple word score, and the best was “QUEEN” vertically with "QI and “UN” branching off to the right, with the “Q” on a triple letter score. 🆒 ETA: Still the only reason I won was that I went out first. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-scrabble-triumphs/605971/40 "2012-03-19T23:27:55Z")
> [@Nawth\_Chucka](#): > > That’s why I was so tickled about my KA challenge, not only is my friend an English teacher but her sis (my BFF) is a world history teacher. At first I thought her challenge was a joke, till she went for the dictionary. It may have been the only time I’ve ever said, “It’s your funeral.” and meant it. (This is a family that trash-talks in Scrabble.) I’m really surprised they didn’t have all the 2-letter words memorized, then. I mean, doesn’t the Scrabble set come with a list of valid two-letter words? At least the last Scrabble set I had did (which, admittedly, was the British edition, so it had slightly different 2-letter words like QI in it–which have since become valid in US play, so far as I remember). ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-scrabble-triumphs/605971/41 "2012-03-20T05:23:17Z")
My opponent plays JUGGLE in the upper right to hit a triple letter and a double word score, but forces an E in the right hand edge. I played RELOADER for a triple-triple. Best play I can remember. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-scrabble-triumphs/605971.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-scrabble-triumphs/605971.md?page=3)