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Video Joeby Joe BihlmeyerV I D E O J O EJoe Bihlmeyer, a top Connecticut SCRABBLE® player, has been posting his SCRABBLE® rantsand lessons on YouTube and cgp. We are pleased to offer Joe’s humorous take on the world oftournament SCRABBLE® to readers of The Last Word.SCRABBLE® is about emotional controlAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA26
S C R A B B L E I N T H E N E W SSCRABBLE® in the NewsSee something about SCRABBLE® or a SCRABBLE® player in the news? Let us know! Send yourstories to CorneliaSGuest@gmail.com.Ask Marilyn?In the November 15 issue of Parade Marilyn vos Savant gave SCRABBLE® playing advice to areader who wrote into her “AskMarilyn” column: http://www.parade.com/askmarilyn/2009/11/Sundays-Column-11-15-09.html. Thanks to Thea McGivney who sent in this look at SCRABBLE®concerns of Parade readers.Nelkon preview to the WSCPhilip Nelkon, one of Britain’s top SCRABBLE® players, wrote a preview to the 10th WorldSCRABBLE® Championship for thestaronline: http://www.thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2009/11/20/lifeliving/5093447&sec=lifeliving.Afraid of drawing bad tiles?Canada’s Most Fearless Person was crowned on November 19th in a contest put on by VirginMobile’s Richard Branson. The first challenge was to shift through a pile of maggots to findSCRABBLE® tiles and spell “fearless.” The National Post covered the bizarre contest: http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2009/11/19/toronto-timeline-richard-bransongoes-totally-off-script.aspx#ixzz0XPdnWsSI.School SCRABBLE® program on TVThe Eastern Greene (IN) Middle School SCRABBLE® club, which has won several statechampionships, was featured in a local News 10 segment: http://www.wthitv.com/dpp/news/local_wthi_bloomfield_eastern_greene_scrabble_200911131742_rev1SCRABBLE® “play dates”Singles are meeting at “PlayDate” events to play SCRABBLE®: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatnews/6613231/US-singles-look-for-soulmate-over-a-game-of-Scrabble.html.India’s supreme court ruling on SCRABBLE®India’s supreme court rules that SCRABBLE® is a game, not a puzzle, and thus subject to excisetax: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Scrabble-not-a-puzzle-or-educational-toy-but-a-game-SC/articleshow/5230903.cmsOnline SCRABBLE® in the newsA story on the growing interest in online Scrabble: http://www.canada.com/story.html?id=54d3b900-bab4-46e9-ab9a-87966f850a0a 27
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Page 32 and 33: The Mad Scrabblersby Cornelia Guest
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