Calling All Scrabblers:
Can you unscramble the following letters to make a word worth 365 points: R X O Y Q T I U?
The word is “ quixotry,” whose face-value letters are Q=10, U=1, I=1, X=8, 0=1, T=1, R=1, and Y=4, for a total of 27. In 2007, Michael Cresta took advantage of an already played R to use all seven of his tiles across two triple word score squares, earning 365 points, “ the most points ever on a single turn,” Jennifer Wood reported in Mental Floss magazine.
For you literati, “quixotry: means “marked by rash, lofty, romantic ideas or chivalrous actions doomed to fail,” and bears a close relationship to Cervantes’ idealistic hero Don Quixote.
The OKCMLC Scrabble Showdown is October 1! Get your “quixotic” self ready!
Our event does not require the mastery that Cresta seems to have. We have fun and good food and drink…a few prizes too. Hope to see you there!
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The Sixth Annual D.E.A.R. Day at the State Capitol was the celebration site for 200 giggly Oklahoma City Public School Second Graders from Hawthorne, Linwood, Cleveland and Sequoyah schools. Over the last six years, the Oklahoma City Metro Literacy Coalition (OKCMLC) has served 19 OKCPS schools and Western Heights Elementary Schools.
