World Record:
High combined score (CSW)
– 1213 (711-502) by David Webb (England) and Bob Violett (England), at the 12th Malta International Scrabble Open (MISO) 2019. See the game here.
– 1210 (721-489) by Edward Okulicz (Australia) and Michael McKenna (Australia), at the 2014 Janboree in NSW - see the game here.
– 1157 (627-530) by Philip Edwin-Mugisha (Uganda) and Vannitha Balasingam (Malaysia), at WSC 2009 Johor Bajru, Malaysia. See the game here.
High game (CSW)
– Toh Weibin set a record score of 850 at the Northern Ireland Championships on 21 January 2012. The winning margin of 591 points is also believed to be a record - see the game here and the story here.
– Hasham Hadi Khan set a record score of 876 at the 6th Sri Lanka Open Scrabble Championship on 23 August 2014 as listed in the WESPA Rated Tournament database. The photo of the board and scoresheets were presented but not clear until now whether this was not yet acknowledged.
Highest single play (SOWPODS) – CAZIQUES 392 by Karl Khoshnaw. View here.
- Game 4 of the WSC 1993 finals between Mark Nyman and Joel Wapnick. Down by 174 points margin (181-355) in the early going after two bingos and one good scoring play by the latter, Nyman gallantly fought back to pip Wapnick by nine points, and evened at 2-2, thereby sending the match to a winner take all fifth game. The dramatic Game 4, check it here.
- Nigel Richard held a rack of ?CDHLRN, and found a spectacular play! Check the board position here and find out what he did.
- In 2024 at the KSSA India Open, Nigel Richards played another superhuman move holding ACENORT, fitting the tiles between P-------ATED. He won in that tournament.
- View more of Nigel's brilliant moves!
- A game between Pakorn Nemitrmansuk and Howard Warner ended in a draw at Causeway 2009. Check my blog link here and find out why I call this game a Great Escape!
- Possible 8-letter word that could break the current World Record of Highest Single Play of 392 points, CAZIQUES. Check out here. Clue: It scores 401 points and this was added to CSW15 lexicon.
- 7-letter tiles single play that would score the highest, theoretically. It's calculated to be 1,787 points using OXYPHENBUTAZONE!
- Highest combined scores by two players, theoretically scores 4,035 points.
- Someone asked: "What are the chances of pulling seven of the same letter tile for your first Scrabble rack?" Engineers, Mathematicians or Statisticians would have an easy solution for this. And the answer is 872 out of 16,007,560,800 or 1 in 18.35 million. Check out this post in Quora.
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