The highest word score in Scrabble is apparently 392 with CAZIQUES. How was this achieved?

Question

This was stated in the Times in their report on the World Championshpis last Sunday. I have always been a Scrabble fan but having seen the winning board displayed I wonder if I shall ever want to play again. The words used seem out of this world! This phenomenal score had been made (not in this contest) by Karl Khoshnaw, a student (of what?) from Manchester. If players play in their own language presumably some have advantages over others, e.g. Polish with a surfeit of Zs?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

my parents used to be avid scrabble players, i remember a few words they used to use that involved using the q without a u all were in the oxford dictionary. could it be that the word was on the triple word score twice going through a double letter score as well? and one of the other letters maybe the s ending an original word on the board?

Answer 3

I don't know where you got this information from, but it is dead wrong.  On up until about two years ago, the high score was 770, but somebody actually beat that out recently.

Here's what I found when I googled it:

On Oct. 12 (2006), in the basement of a Unitarian church on the town green in Lexington, Mass., a carpenter named Michael Cresta scored 830 points in a game of Scrabble. His opponent, Wayne Yorra, who works at a supermarket deli counter, totaled 490 points. The two men set three records for sanctioned Scrabble in North America: the most points in a game by one player (830), the most total points in a game (1,320), and the most points on a single turn (365, for Cresta's play of QUIXOTRY).

In the community of competitive Scrabble, of which I am a tile-carrying member, the game has been heralded as the anagrammatic equivalent of Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point game in 1962 or Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series: a remarkable, wildly aberrational event with potential staying power. Cresta's 830 shattered a 13-year-old record, 770 points, which had been threatened only infrequently.

If you are interested you can contact the National Scrabble Association in Greenport, New York.

Answer 4

Because players in high level Scrabble players often make multiple words with a play, it is difficult to explain the way the score was calculated without seeing the board itself.

Actually sweetums is confusing the record high play score, with the record high game score.  

Joe Edley of the National Scrabble Association could confirm this for you.

Also there was a UK National Chanpionship last weekend.  The World CHampionship is being held in Mumbai, India next month.

Answer 5

CAZIQUES down from the middle left hand side of the board will score 38 x 3 x 3 + 50 pts for using all your letters (using the q as 20 pts) = 392 pts.

This of course would have been enhanced had someone put down a 7 letter word or less along the bottom of the board which could be changed to a plural with the "s"

Answer 6

Don't be intimidated by a high score in any game.  Just play for fun...enjoy your wins and  applaud the wins of your friends.