I’ve NEVER Seen A Scrabble Board Like This 

Orla Judge playing "gutted" and "gulp" feels like foreshadowing for that insane play of doing another 7 letter, 7 overlap bingo.

the first time that a scrabble board ACTUALLY looks like a crossword puzzle lmfao

HIARNETS will soon become an inside joke in the Scrabble community, I'm calling it

I think the second overlap is more obvious than the first simply because now the idea has already been brought to attention. Before that, it was just a normal game with no crazy overlaps, but once you get a 7/7, you might pay more attention to that group. "Haha, wouldn't it be funny if I drew tiles to make a third ov... wait a second!!!"

About to play 57 octillion scrabble games guys, I’ll keep you updated

The AnGeRED under NEURITE is already impressive, but my goodness here he briefly turned Scrabble into a crossword puzzle, absolutely insane of a play

I bursted out laughter when I saw (H)IARNETS, but the ED didn't fit onto my board

old: Scrabble is a game where you make a crossword puzzle bold: Scrabble is a game where you fill a spreadsheet

With ‘hiarnets’ Nigel has become like the Goat Guy from my hometown.

Others were playing scrabble but Ryan was playing Tetris

The hiarnets callback was beautiful

Those visual aides for the 5-bingo sequence were hilarious!

Hey, former European Scrabble champion here! just wanted to say love your content. It's fantastic to see you bringing Scrabble to the forefront of social media, much like chess has been. Keep up the great work!

literally watching this with my jaw on the floor. Thank you for reporting on this and your wonderful commentary, you are absolutely an essential core part of the scrabble community

That's absolutely outstanding wow. 3 way overlaps are hard to even construct, having it come up organically in a real game truly feels like a once-in-many-decades event. Amazing, thanks for putting this game on my radar Will

I'm so so excited to see Ryan on your channel! He's such a lovely, eccentric guy. Thanks for reviewing the game!

The most beautiful would be a 7x7 tile with all overlapping bingos, but I'll take a 3x7 too, real slick stuff, impressive and beautifully spotted.

To anyone curious I also wrote an algorythm to try and find the most bingos you could stack on top of each other (I'm gonna be honest I just didn't trust Will (sorry Will if you read this, it's not you, it's me...)) and got to the same 2 ONLY ways you could possibly stack 5 bingos. There are 25 331 7-letter words in the english language; There are 89 457 ways you could stack 2 bingos on top of each other; There are 974 932 ways you could stack 3 bingos on top of each other (my computer won't forget this); There are 23 707 ways you could stack 4 bingos on top of each other (at this point I thought no way there's only 2 5stacks of bingos, turns out I was wrong); And there are only 2 ways you could stack 5 bingos on top of each other.

(0:39) LOL, that "HIARNETS" reference gave me a good laugh!

3:52 I was literally googling in another tab to try and find out the maximum possibly number of 7 tile bingo overlaps in scrabble.. I'm glad you predicted that question haha

not every day i audibly shout over scrabble but holy shit

1) This is the coolest thing I've ever seen. 2) Good lord, CSW has the dumbest non-words. 😂

I love how much passion and work you put into your videos. It’s really evident especially in a video like this. I know the meta is to have a Clickbait title… But I will say this one video really lived up to the Clickbait.

Brilliant idea for giving us the theoretical 5x7 stacks of words! Kudos to Ryan Wee for this 3x7 blocks amazing feat!

astonishing. thank you for your continued amazing coverage of Scrabble!

Some day, when enough words are added to the lexicon, we'll be able to have the fabled bingo square.

This game was so crazy that it was featured in yesterdays Times scrabble puzzle

To be fair, if I had played a 7-letter overlap, the first thing I'd look after would be another one.

As a bystander the Collins dictionary just seems more enjoyable for allowing more words to be played, and playing words is the fun part of scrabble. Will you're kinda the Wayne Gretzky of poker

Great video as always, Will. Do Scrabble tournaments ever give brilliancy prizes for spectacular individual games, as some chess tournaments do? This game seems like it definitely would merit one if they do!

The MIT Mystery Hunt writers for next year are going to have a field day with this one

Amazing video! One thing i want to ask: do your calculations at 5:09 take into account that certain letters are gone from the bag, being played on board already? e.g. AMARONE is somewhat less likely to be drawn, as PATAMAR already uses AAMR. of course, i don't expect this to significantly impact the overall probability (and it can cancel out in parts, like CURETTE possibly being _more_ likely to be drawn, with "only" ERTT being gone, vs 10 other "useless" tiles)

Now I'm wondering what the biggest fully filled rectangle of scrabble tiles is that could be made with valid plays. None of them have to be bingos though.

If they aren't done in order, maybe you could stack more bingos. Like, maybe there are some possibilities that were ruled out because they wouldn't have been valid as two bingos, but maybe they'd be possible if you did the first and third row before filling the second row in. Maybe there's a way to get 6 or more like that

Were you searching only consecutive bingo overlaps from top to bottom, or were you allowing plays above as well? That might make a difference if the words going across are only valid when truncated one way rather than another.

I can stack 5 letter words but never stacked 7 letter bingos before.

that's it. i've been following for a while, but it took being a bit tipsy for me to scream LOUDLY, and TWICE, watching one of your videos. What a game, and what a way to cover it man !!

delightful stuff

Wonder if you could have overlaps that formed words diagonally too...

that is absolutely crazy

What bingos other than amended could he have played there? Some analysis of the probability of the actual play would be interesting.

The single 5x7 stack that you found can be made by first playing PATAMAR and then the other words below it or by starting with AMARONE, then placing PATAMAR on top, and then the other words below.

ryan thought he joined a crossword tournament 🗣️

I thought 'this reminds me so much of the word squares created by Bob Lucassen', until I saw that the ones in the video are also created by him!

This ryan guy is alright, absolutely destroyed him at scrabble online when I was bored at work , he managed to take a few games off me though so props to him.

Amazing video. Keep them coming!

the hiarnets joke got me lol

If you ever find yourself with "amarone" going first in a tournament game, do not despair! You don't need to pass your turn, you can just play it in the hopes that your opponent has patamar to play above you. The order of the first two words is irrelevant! :)

Awesome video. What is the maximum number of consecutive bingos that could be played to start a game? Is it theoretically possible that every play could be a bingo in a game?

These are fun to watch.

The fact that the word was "Amended", nominative determinism.

Hey Will, what is the shortest a game can end in a stalemate (no legal moves by either player irrespective of how many times the tiles are recycled)? What is the fastest time a game has reached this state in tournament play?

Lol I'm gonna need definitions for all those obscure wordds resulting from those overlaps, because I've never heard of some of those words before.

my dumbass thought he was gonna pull out a triangle or smth 😭😭😭

@wanderer15 You may already know, but both Orla and Ryan are keen ZDS Scrabble players

'oo', 'er', 'li' , 'ee', 'oon', 'ane' aren't words, no matter what any dictionary says.

Wow, that is amazing! 😀👍🏼

Video idea: Scrabble players DnD alignment chart.

Question for you, Will. I loved the theoretical 7x5 stacks and how they were formed, but is there an algorithm that looks at stacking either on the top or bottom on each consecutive bingo? Because your examples look like they're just a series of stacks underneath each previous one, which is cool, but technically they could be placed above.

I paused the video at 1:30 since I was pretty sure I knew where this was going and tried to figure out what word would fit there, which was fun although I couldn't find one (figured there had to be an S in there somewhere!)

Is there a longer sequence of 7 letter bingos that can be done by using overplays rather than underplays? What about a combination of using both overplays and underplays?

I’ve always gotten 6 overlaps.. still looking for one ^^

Fantastic Video. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Crossword looking Scrabble board

I remember a rated game with several consec bingos in the Aus Champs. But not sharing it in comments.

0:38 u got my ass lol

crazy but impressive.

Is that the largest completely filled rectangle in tournament scrabble ever? Or has there been a 4x6 or 5x5 overlap play at some point, for example?

🧩That AMENDED play could be a sign of a future CRUCIVERBALIST!🧩

That’s a story he’ll be telling his grandchildren who will unfortunately never recognize how brilliant this is.

What's the largest area solid rectangular block possible from the beginning of the game if not every word is required to completely overlap as it's played? Same question but bingos aren't required?

is there any other stack that doesn't require it to be in sequential order? for example you have to do row 1+2 then row 4+5 then row 3 last so in this example you needed valid 2 letter words and 5 letter word rather than 2,3,4,5? also other combinations can remove the requirement of 3/4 letter words at the cost of needed more valid 2/3 letter words. Maybe then a 6 stack might be possible (probably not still)

playing 2 7 letter overlap bingos is insane

lol @ how in like in *_ALMOST_** EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.* of these videos, there's always some obscure short word that references... *WEED.* :D And, of course, in 99% of cases it's almost certainly *COMPLETELY MADE UP* by the compiler of the dictionary... :P .

The necessity of only one dictionary is a requirement at this point. Just to make the odds of this happening that much better. ;) How do pros that go back and forth between regions make sure to keep the dictionaries separate in their mind? English is English. Should be the same. I have a house rule that any valid word counts. (Our vocabulary is not extensive as pros, so we hope to recognize on our jumbled rack of letters, to use any word we happen to know.)

They are playing the game where the box moves left to right abd you try to drop it on the other boxes.😂

It is amazing what can be done with make believe words.

sick

weird, i was playing around with stacking bingos last night.

Is there a way to stack 5 bingos other than downwards only? You could obviously to the second one first, then the second, then 3,4,5. But are there any other ways?

Are large overlaps that rare? I've had 5 on a bingo before, and I don't often play people who put their own bingoes on the board.

You're making some of these words up - or somebody is!

Question is , is the board locked at that point? I think there is 1 s remaining so I guess not! But have you ever seen a game where no play is possible? For both players?

Awesome

did you check for 6 or more parallel 7-letter words stacked with the collins dictionary? (since you said there were 800 combinations for 5 parallel words)

I wonder if 6 overlaps exist.

If Ryan Wee, Orla Judge... sorry I'm childish.

HIARNETS spit-take!

Is there a way that he has just found a good way to cheat? It is crazy that he plays so perfect

Still should have played (H)IARNE

Incredible 🎉🎉

Is it still 5 if you allow overlaps as well as underlaps?

Has anyone ever played a 3x3x3, bingo or not, outside of deliberate setups like oxyphenbutazone?

Is there any set of stacked words that complete lock the game if they are the only plays?

Be good too me Wilbur.👍

HIARNETS

Do you happen to have a discord or other contact for game sharing, since you mentioned it

616 in UK

616... the number of the Beast!

if you ever got that 1 in octillion five bingo overlap it'd be inda hard to continue the game after? I guess you'd hvve to make room with patamars, but not much room to play with?