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have graced us

with some amazing words.

Here are some of the highlights,

some of the shorter

but sweeter words.

Qindars is one.

Of course starting with a Q,

that's a powerful word.

We've got Juju. That's simple, but

two very high scoring letters in there.

Liri, Obia, Kudu.

Then we've got Tranq. It's like

Tranquilizer, but without the uilizer.

Then we've got AAL. Now that's a

word that would have stumped me.

I'm quite amazed that no one

called objection to that.

It looks to me like an abbreviation.

Of course, that's not allowed.

Looking to see if that's

an actual word.

Of course

the instincts tell us no,

...it doesn't look like one.

But... it turns out it is.

Had Johnson called the objection,

ah... it wouldn't have helped him.

- moving on...

- Nice.

...another great word, Puja.

- That's good, but what if

they did this?

Zebu, that's of course,

very high scoring.

We've got Fixt, with a T. That's just a

four letter word, but it packs a punch.

Now talk about

packing a punch...

- Personal best!

- Yes!

Zax. Simple. Powerful.

It's rare that someone has the opportunity

to play those two letters at the same time.

Practice your two-letter words,

Because everyone goes for the

bingos, the seven letters.

Obviously that's great stuff, but if

you don't build, uh, from the bottom up,

with, with your 2-letters

and your 3-letters,

...because the 2-letters, that's where you

play, you got your parallel, parallel plays

and that's, that's the big money right

there, and that's how I got here today.

I, I saw a lot of good plays out there...

but I, but I, I went in here and I said,

'No one's gonna beat me at

the parallel plays.'

That's great advice, too-

Jim I understand that you've never entered a

formal Scrabble tournament before. Is this true?

Uh, yes that is true.

So you're an impostor?

This is a game for you?

Huh? Never mind the 100's of thousands of

people who eat and sleep and breath Scrabble

as a puzzle... to be solved!

I won fair and square.

Blasphemer! I call your bluff,

and I challenge him next year!

[RECORDING]:
I am confident.

- I am confident.

[RECORDING]:
I have the heart

of a mighty warrior.

I have the heart of a

mighty warrior.

Four letter words with J

and K... Go now.

Jack, joke, jerk, juke,

other jouk, jock.

Penis.

They might try to throw you.

You gotta be ready.

[TIMER CLICK]

Nice.

Zoe.

Got a new curse word for you...

Horshack.

It's a new sex move.

It's when you hum 'Welcome Back,

Kotter' while having oral-sex.

Take a note.

[HUMS TO SELF]

[STOPWATCH]

- Come on, Marty. Seven letters.

- Okay.

Count 'em up.

Quick, quick, quick.

You're falling behind. Come on.

[FUMBLES TILES]

Marty, come on.

I, I'm, I... I'm no good at

Scrabble, okay.

Ah... pcht.

- Marty.

- Zoe come on.

Jake, you're up.

[SNAPS] Let's go.

Focus.

- Okay...

- Yeah, he's just-

He's fine. You're fine.

Let's go.

[ZIPPER UNZIPS]

She's good.

Yeah, she's good.

[MELANCHOLY PIANO MUSIC #]

It's late, Mucky.

Are you okay?

Just can't sleep.

What are you doing up?

I wanted to clean the kitchen.

At one in the morning?

Don't you have words

to memorize?

I don't think there are

any more words.

Pills?

Where did you get those?

They were my backup plan.

Kind of a girlie-girl

way to go out, don't-

I was going to

wash them down with whiskey.

Still thinking about using them?

No.

I haven't even thought

about them

since that night

at my family's house.

That's funny.

I haven't thought about offing

myself since I met you.

Really?

Yeah.

# I always knew

you'd break my heart #

# That you would see

the end before I did #

# Why I closed my eyes...

# I'll never know why...

# I'll never know why

# And in my hand

I cradle glue #

# Scavenge for the bits

that broke off you #

# Why you had to try,

I'll never know why #

#..I'll never know why

The word weirdos are here.

- Is she freaking out?

- I don't know.

Oh, I'm a flipping mess! I

didn't sleep at all last night.

Shirts!

- Come on, we gotta get moving.

- Okay, hang on a sec.

Marty, come on. Let's go...

Marty.

Go on without me.

Lewis isn't here yet.

- Marty.

- Go.

Come on.

[ANNOUNCER] Dallas, Dayton,

Orlando and now Chicago...

for the 17th Annual

National Scrabble

Championship Tournament.

- I'm Parker Smith.

- Hi, and I'm Mitsy Dugan.

It's such a pleasure to here

on a blustery Chicago day...

as we kick off these

National Championships.

It's been awhile since

its been in Chicago.

We've had a couple rounds

in Dallas, and it looks like

the committee has decided

that they need to

shake things up a little bit,

and bring it to Chicago this year.

Okay, ladies and gent, in just 4 hours there

will only be 8 contestants left on the stage.

Our goal is to have at least

one of us left up there.

[ANNCR]:
That's right and we have

contestants here from all over the country.

Ready to battle wits against

each other in the round robin.

And somebody's going to go home

with a cash prize. [LAUGHS]

Ok, it looks like the

contestants are coming out.

There's a lot of

excitement in the air.

And a lot of favorites. Including

a couple of Chicago-born people.

That's right Chicago, we've got some

hometown-heroes for you to look after.

Good luck. You'll need it.

Right. You're one of those.

back-slash Chicago, back-slash tiles

We have our own Richard Johnson, and

he is live-tweeting this entire event.

So make sure you tune in,

tweetsters!

The power of technology

ladies and gentlemen.

Plaaaay Scrabble!

- Okay, and it's game on.

- And our referee is looking over everything.

Oh well, this is of course

Jerry Turnbaeur.

He will be looking at every

table with hawk-like precision.

That's right, he knows the rules

and he's not afraid to enforce them.

To look at the determination

of these people

I mean for the

average Scrabble player...

...this is mind-blowing. - And it's

just incredible to think about...

what goes through the minds

of these players.

Several... several heavy-hitters

playing right now...

along with a bunch of newcomers. Curious

what kind of game they're bringing-

The players are playing with

energy and intensity.

Imagine what its like on that

floor right now.

We had the word 'Taco' go

down over there.

You can see the sweat coming off

the brow of these players.

- That's a hook word.

- 65 point play right there.

- We're gonna check that on our virtual

dictionary. - Simple but elegant.

See what Richards

got over there.

Wonderful job of crafting which word

she's going to play the next time.

So she sets it up, all the

sudden there's a third word there.

- Pays it right off.

- It's amazing.

And you can feel it

in this room.

These players are serious

about their Scrabble game.

Trying to get into the heads

of these contestants.

It's very intense. They're not only

working their enormous vocabularies...

But they're also playing a good bluffing

game and there's a lot of strategy involved.

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