Saturday, March 31, 2012
Scrabble Hustle Bingos
First place: EXERTED (one blank), 64 points, Elisabeth Grindcore
Second place: JAILERS (one blank), 63 points, Alex Gemo
Great race, Dan!
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Return of the Scrabble Hustle
Meet at 7:30 pm Thursday March 29th at Center courtyard of SouthPointe Pavilions (between Banana Republic and Victoria’s Secret)
Race starts at 8:00pm
$5
7 checkpoints, one letter per checkpoint
Highest scoring word wins.
Race ends 45 minutes after first rider finishes.
Finishing involves assembling a word with as many letters from the checkpoints as the rider can use.
1st rider to finish: triple word score
2nd rider to finish: double word score
3rd rider to finish: triple letter score
4th rider to finish: double letter score
Using seven letters for one word ‘bingo’: 50 points
All checkpoints are optional. Riders must have a word to finish, and all words must be in the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary 3rd edition.
Only letters that are used to form a word count toward scores. Only one letter can be used from each checkpoint.