Just highlights the point Will made in the comparison video a while ago. It’s not about words, it’s about knowing the valid ‘moves’ I agree though, those “oversights” feel quite odd
@@-ZH I think you’re right! My brain will autocorrect words or (very occasionally) immediately spot the bingo but it’d probably have taken a second if not for being primed to see it this time (I am pretty sure I would’ve seen it still, just not as quickly)
This is why doing the livestream for the School Scrabble Championship is so fun for me each year! I love getting to interview the players afterwards---it's a treat being able to pick their brains and getting insight into their plays!
I'm not a Scrabble player, but I love those videos. Your community seems really tight knitted and I find it beautiful to see. Congrats to all the future stars who played in this tournament!
Woof, winning three school championships is wild. It's not like it's something you can grind for decades. Nigel was nearly 30 when he started competing(source: wikipedia). Kids like this have an absurd amount of potential. It's super exciting.
I mean the vast majority of middle schoolers don't do crazy exceptional things, it's just that the ones that do, get famous and are the only ones you hear about
Can you please explain how partner Scrabble works? Do they alternate turns? Do they consult with each other? If so, who casts the deciding vote? And can opponents overhear their plans?
A lot of the answers to these questions are entirely up to the two teammates. I don’t think I’ve heard of too many teams that take turns. But often you’ll find that in their preparation, each teammate will try to specialize in a particular type of word. For example, one will learn some common bingos, and the other will learn shorter words with the J, Q, X, and Z. I think the overhearing thing is also something that could play a larger role than I often realize as one of the event’s commentators, but experienced teams are likely much better at communicating while giving little away.
Funnily enough, I was ALSO watching a Will Anderson video and saw someone play Fatwaing, which i later used aginst my mother. funny how that worked out
It's not that uncommon a word if you've had to take chemistry classes. -ic -ate -ide -ane -ene -one -yne -ol are all pretty useful suffixes for high scoring words that use Z, X, H
I spotted DILATORY as an alternative to IDOLATRY in the first position, although it doesn't score as well because it doesn't have the Y on a triple letter. However, it's possible to do better with SORDIDLY or HYDROIDS across the D on the board, hitting both double word squares.
A very obscure word that only very experienced players would find! In fact, in that position, Tobey and Theo played the extremely impressive PSALM hooking CINDERS for 40, which almost made the cut for inclusion as one of my favorites!
I once spotted Ankerite with two blanks thanks to one of these videos as well. The kicker? No one in my chill scrabble group has ever bingoed (including me prior to that point). I am superior /j
Nice word! I'm still a beginner, my best was probably the unnerve I recently played, or the Wordle word that has the most confusing letters, vozhd. Both were in the game scrabble go
The board at 3:49 is wrong in two ways. - TINS was played at M1, not TMIS*. - QUOIN was played at D1. On Will's board, Milo and Nathan threatened outs with TEELS at 3B and N3. On the actual board, Milo and Nathan did not threaten any outs.
well safe to say after watching this video, i would probably lose to a middle schooler in scrabble (luckily though, it wouldn't be the average middle schooler)
Despite Collins contain too much words while some of them got too generous to be included, they are much fair to the words. MW omitted too many common words!
For some words like QUESO, the dictionary has just been a little slow to catch up to certain food words. It was probably close to being added in the previous update and now feels overdue. As for FAULTLINE and UNBOOKED, they’re both very rare cases of normal sounding words that happen to be valid only in the worldwide Collins dictionary. Typically, these words are either archaic or unique to a certain English dialect, but these are exceptions. QUEEF, well…I expect it to get in sometime :)
How come didn't you cover any plays from Chloe Fatsis? Did she have a bad tourney? And what about that cute guy with freckles, the one who played "Exonerated"
Technically speaking, as a form of protest. Both sides of players agreeing to accept both dictionaries as valid words, should be a thing. It's just absurd otherwise. There should be only one dictionary. English words are English words.
The Collins dictionary is used for scrabble outside north america. There's been some controversy around the north american lexicon recently, hopefully that results in more people switching to collins and not more splitting
"English words are English words." This couldn't be further from the truth. What counts as "English" varies /hugely/ based on context. Is MUTEX English? How about SADLIER? SILLILY? KLEENEX? WINKY? LEERINGS? QUESO? NUMBNUTSES? Each of these cases might or might not be English in a given context, and each for different reasons. It's not at all obvious how a Scrabble dictionary should decide in any of these cases (and the answers may surprise you, and several of them have changed over time). Since there's no objective measure, some group of people has to do their best to make a few tens of thousands of such determinations, and they're very unlikely to do it exactly to your satisfaction.
@@jakeeakle Yeah, the closest we have to a dictionary containing everything that could possibly be an English word is Wiktionary, and that has over 750k words, triple the size of CSW and quadruple the size of NWL, while not even including a lot of words in CSW and NWL such as plurals of uncountable nouns
Unfortunately, you all have been hoodwinked. Cherish, Theo, Nathaniel, and the rest are all just random kids who Will found around his neighborhood and got to pose in front of Scrabble boards. Check your calendars for today's date.
