High score Scrabble is a variant of the board game Scrabble that was popular among tournament players in the United Kingdom in the 1970s and 1980s. Scrabble variants are games created by changing the normal Scrabble rules or equipment The verb "to scrabble" also means to scratch scramble or scrape about see Wiktionaryscrabble. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. The 1980s was the decade spanning from January 1 1980 to December 31 1989. The first National Scrabble Championship of the UK was played by high score rules in 1971, and was won by Steven Haskell. Year 1971 ( MCMLXXI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1971 Gregorian calendar.
Rules
In modern "match play Scrabble" tournaments, players dispute a fixed number of games. In most major tournaments, for example the World Scrabble Championship and the United States Scrabble Open the players are sorted by number of games won and to break ties between players with the same number of wins, the total of the player's scores minus the total of his opponent's score (known as the spread) is calculated. This article is about the tournament in English For other uses see World Scrabble Championships. The National Scrabble Championship is the largest Scrabble competition in the United States. For example a game won 500 - 350 would give a spread of +150.
In high score Scrabble, wins are not counted. Instead only the total number of points is important. Whether the player wins or loses the game, or what his opponent's score is are not a factor. Thus a player could lose all of his games, could still finish in the top half of a tournament with above average scores.
Phil Appleby scored 1049 in a British high score Scrabble game in 1989[1]. Year 1989 ( MCMLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar) However the official Association of British Scrabble Players website does not list this score as the highest ever, rather 705 by Jackie McLeod in 2002, long after high score Scrabble had been replaced by match play Scrabble in the UK[2]. The Association of British Scrabble Players oversees competitive Scrabble in the UK.
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