What placing of all the letter tiles on a scrabble board would represent the highest possible points total?

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   I think it would be OXYPHENBUTAZONE which, if placed on the edge of the board, runs through 3 triple word scores. Depending on what the surrounding words are, you'd be looking at around 1750 points.

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   The highest theoretically possible game score discovered so far is 3986. Check out the Scrabble FAQ at the address below, about two-thirds of the way down the page. (Search for Hedt.)

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   Here is what I found on Google:
   
   830!
   
   How a Massachusetts carpenter got the highest Scrabble score ever.
   
   By Stefan Fatsis
   
   Posted Thursday, Oct. 26, 2006, at 3:20 PM ET
   
   The record-setting board
   
   On Oct. 12, 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.
   
   Since virtually all sports involve variable conditions, comparing one performance to another is technically imperfect. Consider the absence of black players in Babe Ruth's day, or the presence of steroids in the Barry Bonds era. On its face, the new Scrabble records seem to avoid such problems. No one's juicing in Scrabble. Points in a game are just points in a game, and Michael Cresta scored 830 of them. On Scrabble's members-only list-serve, Crossword Games-Pro, most players have hailed this harmonic convergence of vowels and consonants as a triumphal moment. But the record-worthiness of the shot heard 'round the Scrabble world is more complicated than it might look.
   
   This is the highest score ever achieved in Scrabble.  Previous to this it was 780? 790?  A score which was held for something like 10 years, so high scores such as these are few and far between!!!  Google this and find out more!  The guy who wrote this article actually wrote a book about his trip into the crazy world of Scrabble.  It's well worth reading if you like the game.

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