Scrabble Babble

Here's a story for Jen to enjoy (Jen is a Scrabble nut - best player I know).

The Highest Scrabble Score Ever (Slate article)

On Oct. 12, in the basement of a Unitarian church on the town green in Lexington, Mass., a carpenter named Michael Cresta scored 830 points in a game of Scrabble. His opponent, Wayne Yorra, who works at a supermarket deli counter, totaled 490 points. The two men set three records for sanctioned Scrabble in North America: the most points in a game by one player (830), the most total points in a game (1,320), and the most points on a single turn (365, for Cresta's play of QUIXOTRY).

Here's a picture of the winning board. 

There you go Jen.  You now have a new goal.  Break 830, and then you can really start to brag about your scrabble skills.  And I'm SO going to use quixotry next time we play.