Given how much happens on Twitter, it's not that surprising that occasionally two unrelated tweets are perfect anagrams.
And, of course, a site that tracks these to show the world.
These happen weeks apart, on opposite sides of the world, and yet... sometimes it hits just so darn perfect.

When I heard there had been another cheating accusation at the National Scrabble Championships my reaction was this.

This was the first time since I got those yellow "two-extra-W" tiles from skin_it_mahatma that I actually posted a significant rating gain without having them in play. And considering the horrid luck drawing the previous club session, I was remarking that the luck was winding itself up like a crossbow ( Read more... )

Record against ( Read more... )

Against Bruce d'Ambrosio, round 18 ( Read more... )

Like playing classical music in the Copenhagen subway.

Wait, Grieg was Norwegian. Oh, Norway was once a Danish possession and apparently the Danes took losing it rather hard. (Some other parts of linked-to site NSFW for stereotypical representations of Scandinavian countries.)

In Other News: O-Tile, 9-6 +259 (first time in seven tries with ( Read more... )

Anyone else going to Oregon Tile that isn't on the list? Or has the SDO poached the field of Open-goers in the West by landing on an adjacent weekend ( Read more... )

The big thread on CGP is actually sorta fun (for once), the best phony you have attempted/ gotten away with. I'm not known for the bogus, but I occasionally get too adventurous ( Read more... )

If I'm going to have a streaky 8-6 tournament, this is the way I'd want it. Start slow (losing first two including a 356-589 to Rafi) then take seven of the next eight (including Dean Saldanha) to move into about 7th, fade down the stretch (sure, it was against that Murderer's Row of Leong, Williams, and Tran) then get .. ok, kind of a gift on the ( Read more... )

I am currently (in another window on this machine) attempting to upload a video demonstration of why certain colors of poitrels's injection-molded Protiles should be ruled ineligible for tournament play. There is something inherent in the production process that renders the tiles as good as marked ( Read more... )