Editing Scrabble (section)

===Records===
The following records were achieved during international competitive club or tournament play, according to authoritative sources, including the book ''Everything Scrabble'' by Joe Edley and John D. Williams Jr. (revised edition, [[Pocket Books]], 2001) and the Scrabble FAQ.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://home.teleport.com/~stevena/scrabble/contents.html |title=Scrabble FAQ Contents |access-date=2005-07-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050827225238/http://home.teleport.com/~stevena/scrabble/contents.html |archive-date=2005-08-27 |url-status=dead }}</ref> When available, separate records are listed based upon different official word lists:
# OTCWL, the North American list, also used in Thailand and Israel, known today as the NASPA Word List (NWL);
# OSW, formerly the official list in the UK;
# SOWPODS, the combined OTCWL+OSW list now used in much of the world, known today as ''[[HarperCollins|Collins]] Scrabble Words''.
To date, new editions or revisions of these lists have not been considered substantial enough to warrant separate record-keeping.
* ''High game (OTCWL)'' – 830 by Michael Cresta (Massachusetts), at the Lexington (Massachusetts) club, October 12, 2006. Cresta defeated Wayne Yorra 830–490.<ref name="lexington">{{cite web|url=http://www.wolfberg.net/scrabble/lexington/score830/ |title=830-point Game at the Lexington Scrabble Club |publisher=Wolfberg.net |access-date=2010-04-06}}</ref><ref name="slate_cresta">{{cite magazine |last=Fatsis |first=Stefan |url=http://www.slate.com/id/2152255/?nav=ais |title=830! How a carpenter got the highest Scrabble score ever. |magazine=Slate Magazine |date=2006-10-26 |access-date=2010-04-06}}</ref>
* ''High game (OTCWL) in a tournament game'' – 803 by [[Joel Sherman]] (New York), at a tournament in Stamford, Connecticut, December 9, 2011. Sherman defeated Bradley Robbins 803–285, playing a record-tying seven bingos and sticking Robbins with the Q.<ref name="stamford">{{cross-tables player-tournament|pid=53|pname=Joel Sherman|tid=7462|tname=Stamford, CT 2011}}</ref>
* ''High game (OSW)'' – 793 by Peter Preston (UK), 1999.<ref name="stevena">{{cite web |url=http://home.teleport.com/~stevena/scrabble/faqtext.html#Records |title=Scrabble FAQ |publisher=Home.teleport.com |access-date=2010-04-06 |archive-date=August 6, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060806005509/http://home.teleport.com/~stevena/scrabble/faqtext.html#Records |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* ''High game (SOWPODS)'' – Toh Weibin set a record score of 850 at the Northern Ireland Championships on January 21, 2012. The winning margin of 591 points is also believed to be a record.<ref name="centrestar">{{cite web|url=http://www.centrestar.co.uk/12belfast/html/A-scores-005.html |title=Round 5 scores |publisher=centrestar.co.uk |access-date=2012-01-21}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cross-tables.com/annotated.php?u=10343#0# |title=Rik Kennedy-Toh Weibin annotated game (cross-tables.com)|access-date=2017-07-15}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wespa.org/news/2012x01b.shtml|title=Meet 'Mr. 850' Toh Weibin|publisher=WESPA|date=January 2012|access-date=2017-07-15}}</ref>
* ''High combined score (OTCWL)'' – 1320 (830–490) by Michael Cresta and Wayne Yorra, in a Lexington, Massachusetts, club, 2006.<ref name="lexington" /><ref name="slate_cresta" />
* ''High combined score (OTCWL) in a tournament game'' – 1134 (582–552) by Keith Smith (Texas) and Stefan Rau (Connecticut), Round 12 of the 2008 Dallas Open. (Rau's losing score of 552 included three phony words that were not challenged.)<ref name="dallaso">{{cite web |url=http://www.dallasopen.com/cgi-bin/showgcg.cgi?id=2008%2F12a%3Bturn%3Dindex |title=World Record: Highest Losing Score |publisher=Dallas Open |access-date=2010-04-06 |archive-date=July 8, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708222228/http://www.dallasopen.com/cgi-bin/showgcg.cgi?id=2008%2F12a%3Bturn%3Dindex |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* ''High combined score (OTCWL) in a tournament game with no phony words played'' – 1127 (725–402) by Laurie Cohen (Arizona) and Nigel Peltier (Washington), in a tournament in Ahwatukee, Arizona, February 16, 2009.<ref name="cohen_peltier">{{cite news |author=Coty Dolores Miranda |url=http://www.azcentral.com/community/ahwatukee/articles/2009/02/19/20090219ar-scrabble0220.html |title=World Scrabble record set in Ahwatukee tournament |newspaper=The Arizona Republic |date=February 19, 2009 |access-date=2010-04-06}}</ref>
* ''High combined score (SOWPODS)'' – 1210 (721–489) by Edward Okulicz (Australia and [[Michael McKenna (Scrabble player)|Michael McKenna]] (Australia), at the 2013 Janboree in NSW.<ref>[http://www.cross-tables.com/annotated.php?u=16623#24#] Game summary</ref>
* ''Highest losing score (OTCWL)'' – 552 by Stefan Rau (Connecticut) to Keith Smith's (Texas) 582, Round 12 of the 2008 Dallas Open.<ref name="dallaso" />
* ''Highest tie game (OTCWL)'' – 502–502 by John Chew and Zev Kaufman, at a 1997 Toronto Club tournament.<ref name="toronto1">{{cite web|url=http://www.math.toronto.edu/jjchew/scrabble/analysis/19970615.html |title=Chew vs Kaufman |publisher=Math.toronto.edu |date=1997-06-15 |access-date=2010-04-06}}</ref>
* ''Highest tie game (SOWPODS)'' – 532–532 by Sinatarn Pattanasuwanna (Thailand) and Tawan Paepolsiri (Thailand) at the 2012 World Youth Scrabble Championship.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.youthscrabble.org/wysc2012/index.html|title=2013 WYSC Stories|publisher=World Youth Scrable}}</ref>
* ''Highest opening move score (OTCWL)'' – ''MuZJIKS'' (with a blank for the U) 126 by Jesse Inman (South Carolina) at the [[National Scrabble Championship]], 2008.<ref name="inman">{{cite web |url=http://www.scrabble-assoc.com/tourneys/2008/nsc/build/notes/5.html |title=2008 NSC Live Coverage, Round 5 |publisher=Scrabble-assoc.com |access-date=2010-04-06 |archive-date=September 11, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100911193409/http://www.scrabble-assoc.com/tourneys/2008/nsc/build/notes/5.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> The highest possible legal score on a first turn is ''MUZJIKS'' 128, using an actual U rather than a blank. (Note: The odds of drawing MUZJIKS without blanks is 9 in 432,325,411, or 1 in <math>48,036,156.\overline{7}</math><ref>Based on the respective distribution of each tile, the odds of drawing MUZJIKS in order is the product of the fractions {{frac|2|98}}, {{frac|4|97}}, {{frac|1|96}}, {{frac|1|95}}, {{frac|9|94}}, {{frac|1|93}}, and {{frac|4|92}}. This value must then be multiplied by factorial of 7{{--}}the number of tiles for which the factorial is the number of combinations{{--}}to obtain the probability of drawing the tiles in any order.</ref>)
* ''Highest opening move score (SOWPODS)'' – ''[[Bezique|BEZIQUE]]'' 124 by Sam Kantimathi (1993),<ref name="Glenday2008">{{cite book|last=Glenday|first=Craig|title=Guinness World Records 2008 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=keCMNVyeroYC&pg=PA198 |date=2008-04-29 |publisher=Random House Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-553-58995-5 |page=198 |access-date=March 24, 2011}}</ref> Joan Rosenthal<ref name="ASPArecords">{{cite web|url=http://www.scrabble.org.au/records/alltime.htm |title=Tournament records – All-time best |publisher=Scrabble.org.au |access-date=2010-04-06}}</ref> and Sally Martin.<ref name="ASPArecords" />
* ''Highest single play (OTCWL)'' – [[Quixotism|''QUIXOTRY'']] 365 by Michael Cresta (Massachusetts), 2006.<ref name="lexington" /><ref name="slate_cresta" />
* ''Highest single play (SOWPODS)'' – ''[[CAZIQUES]]'' 392 by Karl Khoshnaw.<ref name="khoshnaw">{{cite web |url=http://www.wscgames.com/cgi/player.cgi?given=Karl&surname=Khoshnaw&country=Germany&exact=1 |title=WSC Player Information: Karl Khoshnaw |access-date=2006-04-27 |archive-date=June 29, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100629004111/http://www.wscgames.com/cgi/player.cgi?given=Karl&surname=Khoshnaw&country=Germany&exact=1 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* ''Highest average score, multi-day tournament (OSPD)'' – 503 by James Leong (Saskatchewan) over 12 rounds at Brandon, Man., 2015.<ref name="jamesleong">{{cross-tables player-tournament|pid=2791|pname=James Leong|tid=9281|tname=Brandon, MB 2015}}</ref> 484 by Doug Brockmeier (California) over 12 rounds at Elmhurst, Illinois, 2011.<ref name="dougbrockmeier">{{cross-tables player-tournament|pid=342|pname=Doug Brockmeier|tid=7329|tname=Elmhurst, IL 2011}}</ref> 471 by Chris Cree (Texas) over 18 rounds at the Bayou Bash in Houston, Tex., 2007.<ref name="chriscree">{{cross-tables player-tournament|pid=435|pname=Chris Cree|tid=5717|tname=Houston, TX 2007}}</ref>
* ''Highest average score, multi-day tournament (SOWPODS)'' – 499.94 by [[Nigel Richards (Scrabble)|Nigel Richards]] (MY) over 16 rounds at the 7th Lim Boon Heng Cup, Singapore, 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.toucanet.com/archives/p/nric/2009/0322/ |title=Scrabble Association Archives – Nigel Richards, 7th Lim Boon Heng Cup, 22 Mar 2009 |publisher=Singapore Scrabble Association |access-date=2010-12-10}}</ref>
* ''Highest average score, one day tournament (SOWPODS)'' – 548 by Jackson Smylie of Toronto, Ontario, over 5 rounds at Caledon, Ontario
* ''Highest average score, one day tournament (OTCWL)'' – 532 by Jackson Smylie over 4 rounds at North American Scrabble Championship early bird in Las Vegas

Two other records are believed{{citation needed|date=August 2012}} to have been achieved under a British format known as the "high score rule", in which a player's tournament result is determined only by the player's own scores, and not by the differentials between that player's scores and the opponents'. Play in this system "encourages elaborate setups often independently mined by the two players",<ref name=stevena /> and is significantly different from the standard game in which defensive considerations play a major role. While the "high score" rule has led to impressively high records, it is currently out of favor.{{citation needed|date=August 2012}}
* High game score – 1,049 by Phil Appleby of Lymington, [[Hampshire]], UK, on June 25, 1989, in Wormley, [[Hertfordshire]], UK. His opponent scored just 253 points, giving Appleby a record victory margin of 796 points.
* High single play – CAZIQUES for 392, by Saladin Karl Khoshnaw<ref name="khoshnaw"/> in [[Manchester]], UK, in April 1982.

Much higher-scoring plays are possible (e.g., plays covering three TWS squares), but extremely unlikely to occur without elaborate setups by both players. The highest reported score for a single play is 1786 points using the word [[oxyphenbutazone]] creating seven additional words simultaneously.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Del Solar |first1=César |title=New theoretical highest scoring play discovered! |date=May 26, 2024 |url=https://blog.woogles.io/posts/2024-05-27-new-theoretical-highest-play-discovered/ |access-date=4 July 2024}}</ref> When only adding the word [[Sesquioxide|SESQUIOXIDIZING]] to these official lists, one could theoretically score 2015 (OSPD) and 2044 (SOWPODS) points in a single move.<ref name=hyporep>[http://www.scrabulizer.com/blog/post/3 Record for the Highest Scoring Scrabble Move] at scrabulizer.com</ref> The highest reported combined score for a theoretical game based on SOWPODS is 4054 points, constructed by Nathan Hedt of Australia.<ref>{{cite web |title=Alphabet City Light - Final Report |url=http://azspcs.com/Contest/AlphabetCityLight/FinalReport |website=azspcs.com|access-date=10 August 2021 |date=26 September 2014}}</ref>
Other records are available for viewing at [http://cross-tables.com/totalscrabble.pdf ''Total Scrabble''], an unofficial record book that includes the above as sources and expands on other topics.

In August 1984, Peter Finan and Neil Smith played ''Scrabble'' for 153 hours at [[St. Anselm's College]], Birkenhead, Merseyside, setting a new duration record. A longer record was never recorded by ''Guinness Book of Records'', as the publishers decided that duration records of this nature were becoming too dangerous and stopped accepting them.<ref>{{cite book|last=McWhirter|first=Norris|title=Guinness Book of World Records 1985|year=1985|publisher=Sterling Publishing|isbn=0-8069-0264-7}}{{page needed|date=August 2012}}</ref>