I don't think your friendly newspaper columnist at WSJ has played Scrabble
in a while ... There is only one "Z" making it rather hard to spell ZZZ.
Steve
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 15:50, Ev Tupis <w2ev@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Is *nothing* sacred?
>
> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123731266862258869.html
>
> "Za," "qi" and "zzz" were added recently to the [Scrabble's] official word
> list for its original English-language edition. Because Z's and Q's each
> have the game's highest point value of 10, those monosyllabic words can rack
> up big scores for relatively little effort. So now that those high-scoring
> letters are more versatile, some Scrabble aficionados would like to see the
> rules changed -- which would be the only change since Alfred Butts
> popularized the game in 1948.
>
>
> Ev, W2EV
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