A good game of Scrabble is a great long weekend activity, and some of the best word wizards around descended on Kingston this Family Day weekend for the Canadian Scrabble Classic.
“I call it the ‘ah-ha’ moment,” he explains. “You reach in the bag, you get your tiles, you put them on your rack, you're looking at it, you're looking at it and then it’s like, ‘Oh!’ The mist clears and it’s like, ‘And there’s that word,” he says.
On the line, is more than $10,000 worth of prizes and a chance for these wordsmiths to work their way up the international ladder, explains Josh Greenway, the director of the 2023 games. For Hazzard, while uncovering the perfect word and getting a high score are fun elements, the hunt for tiles usually can spell new friendships at events like this.So for beginners, what’s the advice the experts give?“Most people spend a lot of time looking at their tiles thinking of a word, and then when they find a word it doesn’t fit anywhere good,” he says. “So you really want to identify the best row or column to play in.”“Play the words that will give you the maximum score.
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