Personal Best

It's been a long time since i played scrabble. need to train up for the upcoming Causeway Challenge, an international Scrabble competition wh is going to b held in Johor on the 30 nov - 02 dec. anyways...this happened some 2 weeks back. i usually get trashed by Amy when i play against him since he is among Singapore's top 20 players. heck, he is ranked in the top 100 in the world. so when i haf a good run and manage to chalk up a win or two against him, it muz be worth bloggin abt it, ain't it.

pardon the poor camera-skill. but looking at the board, my rack is at the top with these letters 'FISHE?S'. what's the best possible move? take some time to try and play this move. for those not familiar with the scrab board lemme summarise it up for u. the light blue boxes are 'double letter score', the dark blue boxes 'triple letter score', beige boxes 'double word score' and the red boxes 'triple word score'. the 'F' and 'H' is worth 4 pts and the 'I,S,E' are worth a point each and the blank wh can be used to rep any letter has no points allocated. STOP here, dun scroll down yet till u tried making ur own move.

so wat's ur score? well, dis is wat i did for tt particular move. i used the 'R' in HEARER to form the word 'FRESHIeS'. The 'F' and last 'S' occupied both red "triple word scores" and the middle 'S' is on the "double letter score", so for this move i raked up 4+1+1+(1x2)+4+1+0+1=14, then 14x3x3=126 and an additional 50 points for the bingo wh gives me a total of 176 points for this move. wowee...a new personal record:highest points gained in one move.