Halloween Scrabble
Jed Martinez has a haunting Scrabble story: "If you like Scrabble, then you'll love to hear this ... On the October 28th meeting of Scrabble Club 276--which I'm a member of--a special prize was given out to the player (in the first two of three games) who came up with the best word associated with Halloween (based on a voting procedure amongst all the attending members).
Prior to Game One, I drew a ghost on the whiteboard in the room (beginning with the word "BOO!"--the eyes of which became his eyes); and it was during that first game I came up with the word GHOST, which would inevitably become the word with the most votes! Weird, eh?!
Club President Sandee Bloom took my …
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Publication information:
Article title: Halloween Scrabble.
Contributors: Not available.
Magazine title: Word Ways.
Volume: 43.
Issue: 1
Publication date: February 2010.
Page number: 40.
© 2009 Jeremiah Farrell.
COPYRIGHT 2010 Gale Group.
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