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Subject: Scrabble cheat spotted in US final
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/17/12 at 2:55 pm
A Scrabble player has been thrown out of the US national championship tournament after being caught hiding blank letter tiles.
The cheat was spotted by a player at a nearby table, who noticed the youth conceal a pair of blank tiles, which can be used as wild card letters. When confronted he admitted to it.
John Williams, executive director of the National Scrabble Association, said the cheat was ejected from the 350-player event in Round 24 of the 28-round event which has a 10,000 dollar (£6,400) top prize.
Mr Williams, who has served as executive director for 25 years and co-authored a book on the board game, said this was the first incident of cheating at a national tournament. However, he said it has been known to occur at smaller, regional events.
"It does happen no matter what. People will try to do this," he said. "It's the first time it's happened in a venue this big though. It's unfortunate. The Scrabble world is abuzz. The internet is abuzz."
Williams would not identify the player by name or age because he is a youth. There are four divisions and he was competing in Division 3.
He said Division 3 is equal to "any great living-room player out there."
In Scrabble matches, players accumulate points during one-on-one matches by pulling random letter tiles from a bag of 100 and trying to create words.
A total of 98 tiles have letters on them and two are blank. Blank tiles can be used as wild card letters to complete words.
The ejected player had concluded a previous game and never reinserted the blank tiles into his bag in an attempt to use them at his discretion in the next game, organisers said.
Subject: Re: Scrabble cheat spotted in US final
Written By: ladybug316 on 08/17/12 at 7:22 pm
I don't understand how he thought he'd get away with it! Don't both players choose tiles from 1 bag? What would happen if the cheat used the illegal tile and within the play of the game, his opponent happened to choose both legitimate blank tiles? People are so stupid. ::)
Subject: Re: Scrabble cheat spotted in US final
Written By: warped on 08/17/12 at 7:29 pm
I don't understand how he thought he'd get away with it! People are so stupid. ::)
(Gene Rayburn from Match game) Dumb scrabble player was sooooo dumb...
(Audience yells) How dumb was he?
(Gene) He used too many (blanks).
Subject: Re: Scrabble cheat spotted in US final
Written By: ladybug316 on 08/17/12 at 8:43 pm
Ba dum dum! I used to love that footlong microphone with the ball on top!
Subject: Re: Scrabble cheat spotted in US final
Written By: nally on 08/17/12 at 10:46 pm
(Gene Rayburn from Match game) Dumb scrabble player was sooooo dumb...
(Audience yells) How dumb was he?
(Gene) He used too many (blanks).
LOL!!! I love it... :D
Ba dum dum! I used to love that footlong microphone with the ball on top!
Yes, that was a fun show. I have seen the reruns on GSN.