Idk but the game would be surely wild.

On May 26, 2001, David Poder was 256 points behind Joel Sherman with an early score situation of 6-262 in the San Jose Memorial Day Tournament. Miraculously, David Poder managed to overcome this massive deficit and win the game with an ending score of 541-539. I belive this is the highest known comeback in tournament play.

@@miskee11Not only is that an amazing comeback, but a score of 6-262 is pretty wild in and of itself!

@@miskee11would be a cool vid

bruh if I was 262-2 I would simply go home

I got a kick out of this too but I figured it would at least be useful to show the part of speech because it could plausibly be a noun.

@@wanderer15 valid.

Thanks for giving my content a try!

I was pulling for Dallas Legg.

Missoula Knuckle ftw

Personally I like Chicago Ribcage more

I wasn’t sure, so I googled “settee pronunciation” and clicked the little speaker button and went with what I heard!

Still is. And adverts any time you do anything

The area where the scoring table and seating area is located at a bowling alley is called the settee (US).

I wasn’t sure, so I googled “settee pronunciation” and clicked the little speaker button and went with what I heard!

Well, it was played at the "high end" of the board.

It's not unknown, that's just how it's pronounced in US English! How is it pronounced in the UK? I assume with the "ee" sound not like French? I recently saw a video commenting that US English, more often than UK English, pronounces loanwords (and words that "look" like loanwords) as they are in the original language. Whereas UK English prefers to adapt the pronunciation to a more English sound. "Settee" looks to be an example where it *looks* like it's French, so Americans try to pronounce it the French way. But I guess it's actually derived from "settle" in English?

@@wanderer15 Don't worry Will, I've also never heard that word before (I live in Australia)

Have a couple video ideas along these lines I’ll be working on soon!

Glad you find them helpful!

I wasn’t sure, so I googled “settee pronunciation” and clicked the little speaker button and went with what I heard!

I used to collect Gau’s Rages so I spent quite a lot of time on there :)

Yes 💯!

I believe there is actually the ability to choose which lexicon you want to use. Could be wrong. Will?

I believe there is actually the ability to choose which lexicon you want to use. Could be wrong. Will?

I believe they do have Collin’s, but agree otherwise. Also, almost all the players are bots.

I found the same as you with the ads and the premium nagging so uninstalled quite quickly. I did get Collins by default though so maybe it's a location thing? One extra thing i disliked about the app was that you couldn't play a phony.

@@Kanbei11 I feel like the inability to play phonies is fair in the context of an app, since your opponent can very easily look the word up online to see if it’s real or not, and there’s no way to stop that.

let's not forget RETINAL!

once you know the rules of the game you can start competing. you won't be winning tournaments right away or anything, but it will be fun and will give you good experience to improve more quickly.

Agreed! Keep in mind that on my channel I’m showcasing the best of the best on my channel - but there are divisions at tournaments for players of all skill levels, including beginners. Let me know if I can help with any more info!

Scrabble is mostly governed by national organizations which each have slightly different standards for player titles (if they have them at all). I'm a grandmaster within the North American system. Here, it's not calculated using norms the way chess is. Instead, you need to hold a very high national ranking for many years in a row. As for overall mastery, I think you can definitely get there in Scrabble with enough effort! How much natural ability you have for learning new words and mastering strategy will determine how much effort you need to put in, but as long as you fall in love with the game and with that process, it is surely achievable.

@@wanderer15 Thanks! That really gave me hope! I am already a chess master and I would like to add Scrabble master to my resumé as well haha, in all seriousness, I believe it's just a great hobbie overall, it's a classic game that mostly likely will continue to exist even when we are old grandpas, I believe that pursuing this lifelong hobbies are very good, nowadays I am discouraged to try to play a digital game because they fall from grace so fast/ it's difficult to keep up with all the changes. With scrabble I feel it's different, the rules are still the same and the only change is really the languages changing, new words being added and those things. And I can surely bear that! And also that can add some freshness to the game as well. Also I study Foreign Languages Applied to International Negotiations in University (We have English, French, Spanish Classes and I speak Portuguese because I am from Brazil), so maybe playing Scrabble will teach me new words as well (I really liked the fact that in Scrabble GO we have a bunch of different dictionaires too, that means I can like discover new French vocabulary for example while having fun. I think Scrabble has a pretty good sinergy with the things I do in my life, and certainly it has simmilarities to Chess as well, and I am very happy to have found this game, thank you so much for your videos. If not for you I would probably not have stumbled into it, because here in Brazil I literally never saw anyone ever playing this great game!

True. However, I actually like that it allows for experimentation / trial and error by players - lessening the emphasis on rote memorization feels like an improvement to gameplay to me. This is certainly subjective opinion on my part and I could appreciate anyone disagreeing with that.

In this one we at least had players using face cams and sharing their computer screens on Zoom (the players were using an emulator to play the games on their desktop).

Yes, actually, for young children (3rd through 8th grade): the kids form teams of two and each team of two is playing against another team of two.

You can bookend! The tiles just need to be in a straight line with no open spaces.

They have to hold the bag of letters above their head, and show open hands after if checking the bag for how many tiles are left. Also the tiles are pretty high quality injection molding so you can't feel the letters. But you are allowed to play a word that isn't a real word, as long as the other player doesn't challenge it.

I hadn’t heard of the raising the bag routine, but I’ve heard of injection molded tiles. Though, what I was referring to was this specific case, the case of two people playing from what looks like their respective homes. Maybe I’m wrong, but I don’t think this is an in-person match. For instance, how do they know there isn’t another person outside of the camera’s view who’s feeding the game into some sort of scrabble AI and telling the player what to play? Not at all suggesting this happens in high level scrabble, just curious how they prevent it.

thanks, fixed!

It’s the biggest threat but by far the likeliest - the score is still close enough that an 80+ point bingo would equalize the game, making those 11 points really matter (and Austin had just such a play in UNBASTED).

I always heard it as SET EE Mostly in the 1970s. Sort of a snootish word.