When I was a kid we played a lot of Scrabble in our family.  In fact one of the defining moments in my adolescence was the first time I beat my Mom and I was pretty sure she wasn’t tanking the game to make me feel better.  So I read with interest this item (found via Lex) about a guy who scored 830 points in one game and his opponent scored 490.  They set three records; highest score by one player, highest combined score and highest score for one word (365 for QUIXOTRY).

I feel for the guy who lost since normally you’re the winner running away if you score almost 500 points, yet he was beat by 340.  To his credit that means that if you removed the 365 point word he actually played his opponent even.  Most mortals would have thrown in their tiles after that one. How bad was that pun?