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This page lists various official sanctioned records achived in competitive SCRABBLE® play in North America and overseas.

The records in each category are classified further based on the environment(tournament or club) and by the dictionary used (OTCWL or SOWPODS, ignoring the specific edition).

In the words listed, lowercase letters stand for blanks and paranthesised letters stand for tiles already on the board. An asterisk (*) means that the word is a phony or that the score is known to include phonies. An octothorp (#) means that the word is acceptable in SOWPODS but not in OTCWL.

A question mark means that some detail of the record is unknown or questionable. All records are subject to revision as appropriate.

Contents

Highest winning game score

Tournament, OTCWL

  1. 770: Mark Landsberg, June 13, 1993, Eagle Rock CA (ref)
  2. 744: Tim Wilkinson, June 9, 2007, Dover NH
  3. 724: Robin Pollock Daniel, October 22, 2006, Lake George NY
  4. 719*: Chris Reslock, February 1981, Xenia OH
  5. 716*: Ken Lambe, June 27, 1981, New York Game Room Tourney Preliminary

Tournament, SOWPODS

  1. 789: Nicholas Mbugua (Kenya), June 3, 2007, WSC Qualifier, Machakos, Kenya
  2. 785: Jackie McLeod, 2002, UK (OSW?)
  3. 764: Russell Honeybun (West Australia), August 26, 2007, Australia.

Club, OTCWL

  1. 830: Michael Cresta, October 12, 2006, Club #108, Lexington MA (ref)
  2. 801: Robert Kahn, March 3, 2010, Club #276, Lauderhill, FL
  3. 792*: Nick Ballard, 1980, Chicago IL (not reported until much later)
  4. 768: Sam Kantimathi, August 2002, Club #433, Sacramento CA
  5. 756: Judy Levitt, February 23 2005, Los Angeles CA

Highest combined game score

Tournament, OTCWL

  1. 1134*: Keith Smith 582 vs. Stefan Rau 552*, Dallas Open, March 2008
  2. 1127: Laurie Cohen 725 vs. Nigel Peltier 402, February 16, 2009, Phoenix AZ
  3. 1108: Mark Landsberg 770 vs. Alan Stern 338, June 13, 1993, Eagle Rock CA
  4. 1105: John Luebkemann 580 vs. Rose Kreiswirth 525, 2007, The Players Championship
  5. 1103: Mark Milan 558 vs. Kevin Rickhoff 545, 2006 National SCRABBLE Championship

Tournament, SOWPODS

  1. 1157: Phillip Edwin-Mugisha (Uganda) 627 vs. Vannitha Balasingam (Malaysia) 530, 2009 World SCRABBLE Championship, Malaysia (ref)
  2. 1110: M. Nicholson 570 vs. O. Oduwole 540, English Open 2008
  3. 1105: Mark Nyman 680 vs. Rogelio Talosig 525, 2005 World SCRABBLE Championship
  4. 1099: Carmel Dodd 582 vs. Karen Richards 517, January 25, 2009, Australia

Club, OTCWL

  1. 1320: Michael Cresta 830 vs. Wayne Yorra 490, October 12, 2006, Club #108, Lexington MA
    • bingos: JOUSTED, LADYLIK(E), F(L)ATFISH 239, (S)CAMsTER, UNDERD(O)G, QUIXOT(R)Y 365
  2. 1119(?): John Luebkemann 728 vs. Bob DeTore 391, September 1998, Cincinnati OH (not reported until much later)
  3. 1111: Ira Cohen 653 vs. Bruce D'Ambrosio 458, July 18 2001, Club #44, Los Angeles CA (ref)
  4. 1110: Ray Smith 664 vs. Ron Tiekert 446, Atlanta

Highest tie game score

Tournament, OTCWL

  1. 502-502: John Chew vs. Zev Kaufman, June 15, 1997, Toronto club tourney (ref)
  2. 499-499(?): Joe Edley vs. Jerry Lerman, 1980

Tournament, SOWPODS

  1. 522-522: Alec Webb vs. Nick Deller, March 7, 2009, Peterborough, UK (ref)
  2. 510-510: Michael Gongolo (Kenya) vs. Patrick Mpundu (Zambia), 2007, East and Central Africa Scrabble Championships, Kampala, Uganda

Club, OTCWL

  1. 496-496: Shaun Goatcher vs. Craig Rowland, 1998, Club #3, Toronto ON

Highest winning game spread

Tournament, OTCWL

  1. 569*: Ken Lambe 714 vs. 147, June 27 1981, New York City Game Room Tourney Preliminary
  2. 546: Richard Ross 702 vs. 156, December 1990, Florida State Championship
  3. 515: Susan Beard 700 vs. 185 (initially reported as 700-170), July 2008, National Scrabble Championship

Tournament, SOWPODS

  1. 543: J. McLeod, NSCT Regional 2002, UK (OSW?)
  2. 521: Russell Honeybun 764 vs. 243, August 26, 2007, Australia.

Club, OTCWL

  1. 570: Robert Kahn 801 vs. 231, March 3, 2010, Club #276, Lauderhill, FL

Highest losing game score

Tournament, OTCWL

  1. 552*: Stefan Rau vs. Keith Smith 582, March 2008, Dallas Open
  2. 545: Kevin Rickhoff vs. Mark Milan 558, August 2006, National SCRABBLE Championship
  3. 539: Joel Sherman vs. David Poder 541, May 2001, Campbell CA
  4. 533: Cheryl Cadieux vs. Chuck Armstrong 539, 1993
  5. 531: Jason Ubeika vs. Albert Hahn 566, 2005, Western Canadian Championship, Calgary AB

Tournament, SOWPODS

  1. 540: O. Oduwole vs. M. Nicholson 570, English Open 2008

Club, OTCWL

Lowest winning game score

Tournament, OTCWL

  1. -8: Rod Nivison vs. -10, July 1990, Midwest Invitational Tournament (game ended after six consecutive zero scores)

Tournament, SOWPODS

Club, OTCWL

Highest word score, no phonies

Tournament, OTCWL

  1. 311: BRAZIERS, T. A. Sanders, January 1997, Tyler TX

Tournament, SOWPODS

  1. 392: CAZIQUES, Karl Khoshaw, April 1982?, Magri Demajo, Malta (OSW) (ref)

Club, OTCWL

  1. 365: QUIXOT(R)Y, Michael Cresta, October 12, 2006, Club #108, Lexington MA
  2. 338: DEFUZING, Jeff Widergren
  3. 329: FREEZING, Carl Twickler, 2002, Huntington NY
  4. 321: CONQUERS, Rhonda Harvey, 1985, Club #188, Gonzales LA
  5. 311: CRAZIEST, Joe Koczan, May 28 1996, Milwaukee

Highest opening word score, no phonies

The theoretical maximum (using either OTCWL or SOWPODS) is 128 for MUZJIKS without blanks.

Tournament, OTCWL

  1. 126: MuZJIKS, Jesse Inman, July 2008, National SCRABBLE Championship, Orlando FL
  2. 124: BEZIQUE, Sam Kantimathi, September 1993, Portland OR

Tournament, SOWPODS

  1. 124: BEZIQUE, Joan Rosenthal, 1997 (OSW?)
  2. 124: BEZIQUE, Sally Martin

Club, OTCWL

Highest non-bingo word score, no phonies

Tournament, OTCWL

  1. 243: R(OR)QUALS, Karen Merrill, 1997, Portland Club Tourney
  2. 180: GH(ER)KiNS, Robert Kahn, 1985 National SCRABBLE Championship, Boston MA

Tournament, SOWPODS

Club, OTCWL

  1. 261: B(RE)EZIER, Jim Kille, April 14, 1993, Club #333, Exon PA

Highest non-triple-triple word score, no phonies

Tournament, OTCWL

Tournament, SOWPODS

  1. 164: BEZIQUES, Jason Stockdale, December 28, 2006, Australia
  2. 157: QUIZzES, F. Madeley, Twixmas 2007, UK

Club, OTCWL

  1. 145: BEZIQuE, Tapani Lindgren, July 23, 2009, Club #628, Roseville CA (ref)

Longest word, no phonies

Tournament, OTCWL

  1. 15: RE(CONSIDERATION), Ken Clark, September 1990, Portland OR
  2. 15: DIS(CONTENTMENTS), Ed Liebfried, March 2005, Exeter NH Club Tourney

Tournament, SOWPODS

  1. 15: RE(CAPITULA)TIONS, Mark Nyman (OSW?)

Club, OTCWL

  1. 15: (INFORMATIVE)NESS, Eric Chaikin, 2001, Club #44, Los

Angeles CA

  1. 15: DISENFRANCHISES, (Bob Violet or Edelle Crane?)

Most bingos by one player in a game

Tournament, OTCWL

  1. 6: Kevin Fraley, July 2006, Reno NV (also most consecutive opening bingos by one player)
    • REOILI(N)G, MARINER(S), cO(N)TRITE, (O)UTMODED, DUN(E)LIKE,

GARDEN(E)R

  1. 6: (numerous players)

Tournament, SOWPODS

Club, OTCWL

  1. 7: Chuck Armstrong, January 1993, Club #115, Livonia MI
    • MUCILAGE, LANGSYNE, OGREISMS, BANNERS,

METAPHOR, AWAITER, REOBJECT

  1. 7: Robert Kahn, March 3, 2010, Club #276, Lauderhill, FL
    • HAEMOID, sTARTLE, INSERTS, ENVIOUS, BEPAINT, RE(E)CHOEd 185, TEARIES(T).

Most consecutive bingos by both players

Tournament, OTCWL

Tournament, SOWPODS

  1. 7(?): Russell Byers and Shiela Spate, Nottingham, England
    • SHINIER, ANEARING, HAPTERON#, BATEMENT, OVERUSE,

SCREAMED, CLOSURES (OSW?)

  1. 5(?): Travis Chaney and Iffy Onyeonwu

Club, OTCWL

  1. 5(?): Steven Saul and Joel Horn, October 7 2004, Club #108, Lexington MA (also most consecutive opening bingos by both players)
    • HObNAIL, AZURITEs, OUTPRAYS, VETERANS, FLAGONS

Most consecutive games won

Tournament, OTCWL

  1. 31: Tom Adams, 1993 (lower divisions)
  2. 28: Dan Pratt, 1986 (division 1)

Tournament, SOWPODS

Club, OTCWL

  1. 31: Ian Weinstein, 2009-2010, Club #276, Lauderhill, FL

Highest cumulative spread

Tournament, OTCWL

  1. +3611: Jason Bednarz, July 1999, Reno, (35-4, 1st place division 3)
  2. +3061: John Rumzis, 2004 National SCRABBLE Championship, (28-2, 1st place division 7)
  3. +2758: Bradley Robbins, 2008 National SCRABBLE Championship, (24-4, 1st place division 6)
  4. +2691: Joey Krafchick, 2001, The Players Championship, (25.5-5.5, 1st place division 5)

Tournament, SOWPODS

  1. +3814: Ganesh Asirvatham, December 2006, 5th Causeway Challenge (22-3, 1st place)
  2. +3110: Nigel Richards, January 2008, UK Open (31-7, 1st place)
  3. +3014: Nigel Richards, December 2008, 7th Causeway Challenge (30-15, 4th place)
  4. +2738: Ganesh Asirvatham, December 2004, 3rd Causeway Challenge (23.5-5.5, 1st place)

Club session, OTCWL

Highest average game score

Tournament, OTCWL

  1. 500+(?): Jim Geary (one-day)
  2. 495.33(?): Kenji Matsumoto, June 30 2007, Reno NV Late Bird (one-day 6 rounds)
  3. 485.29(?): Christopher Sykes, November 2007, Brantford ON (one-day 7 rounds)
  4. 470.11: Chris Cree, May 2007, Houston TX (18 rounds)
  5. 467.36: Joel Sherman, October 1992, Wisconsin Dells WI (11 rounds)

Tournament, SOWPODS

Club session, OTCWL

Most consecutive tournament wins

  1. 10: Brian Williams, May 2003 - November 2007
  2. 7: Dan Pratt, June 2007 - January 2009
  3. 6: Chuck Armstrong, December 2000 - September 2001

Sources

Scrabble FAQ: records: Steven Alexander: Scrabble Frequently Asked Questions

Total SCRABBLE: Keith W. Smith: The (Un)Official SCRABBLE® Record Book, Jan 2009

Scrabble records: Wikipedia article

Australian Records: Australian Scrabble Players Association (ASPA)

ABSP all-time records: Association of British Scrabble Players

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