You know you’ve landed in Facebook hell when your favorite Scrabulous dies an early death due to a legal battle. Then to make things worse, the beta substitute of Hasbro’s Scrabble crashes and burns. However, you know you’ve landed in some kind of Jew heaven when Yiddish rules the National Scrabble Championship.
On NPR’s “All Things Considered,” the Wall Street Journal’s Stefan Fatsis reported the big news. More than 660 players played for four days in 28 games in Orlando. Nigel Richards, a security engineer from New Zealand, who lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia was holding steady in a tie-breaker at 370 points against Brian Cappalletto (all you word geeks out there: just look at all those double letters). Cappalletto is an options trader from Chicago and a former national and world Scrabble champion. The boys were at a stand-off. There was nary a tile left in the bag.
These guys are smarties. Brian had played words like scerrying and sarcine, Fatsis reports. Nigel had played innerve and penates.
Nigel’s winning word?
Shuln. The Yiddish plural for shul.
That’s right, people. Shuln as in synagogues.
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Get ready for the YIddish Scrabble Contest.
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That word SO did not come up on the online Scrabble dictionary.
Ben, try “Einkommenueberschussrechnung”.
Yeah, hold on, if foreign words are allowed…
Can’t you spell massive, high scoring words like “Staatsangehörigkeit”? I mean, obviously it’d be harder, but…
Ummmmm…..what has ck got to do with Yiddish? He’s Morroccan, right?
Now, if the winning word had been shakshuka…..
uhhh,
foreign words are allowed in scrabble?
I am so pissed!
merci!
c’est moi.
Great post!
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