“There was a lot of talk about making cheaters Scrabble a new sport.” “We talked a lot during the game about how hard it’s going to be to go back to regular Scrabble,” Ms. Placing second were the High Maintenance Shorties, consisting of a professor of preventive medicine, Lauren Hale, and a museum exhibit designer, Becca Widiss. The winning team was the Fightin’ Caziques, helmed by the deputy editor of Good Magazine, Morgan Clendaniel, and another preppily-clad wordsmith, Gideon Friedman. The latter resulted in gibberish words that spanned the width of the game board. In the weeks prior to the tournament, teams raised money online to pay for the ability to cheat: rejecting opposing teams’ words, buying vowels or the letters q, x, or z, or the most expensive cheat of all -for $500, the ability to make up a word. The nonprofit literary-education center 826NYC, which helps students between the ages of six and 18 with creative and expository writing skills, organized its first Scrabble for Cheaters tournament, a gambit that raised $50,000 for the three-year-old organization. RELATED: Photos from the Scrabble for Cheaters Tournamentĭays after Scrabble trademark holders Hasbro and Mattel asked Facebook to shut down Scrabulous, its online version of the word game, a Scrabble tournament on Saturday in Park Slope showed 20- and 30-somethings’ enthusiasm for the original version – with a few adjustments.
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