“ [A] now deceased Kurdish [Scrabble] player, Dr Karl Khoshnaw, … got 392 points for ‘caziques’ at a contest in Manchester in 1982.
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- the quotation comes from this (via this) interesting article, mainly about the history of the game of Scrabble, in which it’s claimed that Dr Khoshnaw’s play got the highest score anyone’s ever got for a single word
- the Stumblng Tumblr’s no doubt posted about Scrabble before; he loves it
- the image above from here shows some letters from the Norwegian version of Scrabble
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