Scrabble Champion Reviews FIVE Unbelievable Scrabble Scenes!

[@paulz726]

“Despite the insensitive hooting and hollering” 💀💀💀

[@KrazyKyle-ij9vb]

Will is a real one for that lmao

[@rsyvbh]

If i had no context for this i would assume that it's about political debates

[@socksygen]

Will has his priorities straight

[@PatchworkPS]

I'm loving this new branding. You're absolutely right to finally present yourself as "scrabble champion" - I feel a hint of inspiration from WIRED's videos here, great thing to apply to your channel. Also, knowing Scrabble from vids like yours only, this is finally one I can completely understand :D

[@richards31415]

Will was the 2017 NASC champion so he's had that right at least since 2017

[@artsenor254]

WIRED, Vanity Fair, Insider, GQ... there are many who do that already, so I think it's fair. xD

[@wanderer15]

I jokingly made reference to WIRED in the intro of my first video in this series a while back (before I was taking KZbin more seriously): kzbin.info/www/bejne/pIOyeYWunrSjotU

[@mxspokes]

Depending on when this episode of NCIS aired originally, QI might not have been in the Scrabble Dictionary. Air date is in 2007; so it's a new word but a legal one.

[@letsmakeit110]

there's another dilbert scrabble scene where he challenges a sentient ai to a man vs machine olympics. after easily winning badminton the machine looks to recoup the loss in scrabble, where he plays a nonsense 7-consonents word, and upon being challenged, adds it to the current edition dictionary.

[@undeadfury55]

The ai word was “WIPQOZN”

[@wanderer15]

Ooh, have to track this down too!

[@Fiyaaaahh]

14:38 Bud was definitely thinking about "a" rack, but not the one with HEKTARE on it.

[@mkwilson1394]

That third game might not have had any bingos played! HER+RING, EXIT+ING, AUTHOR+ED. That's the only way that such a low score makes any sense. It's also what someone learning English vocab might do, practicing suffixes.

[@-Mopo-]

Pedantry alert: *hektare* is not a Greek unit of measure. *Hekta* is the metric prefix for 100 from the Greek for 100, and *are* is equal to a square meter from the Latin for *area*.

[@galoomba5559]

An are is 100 square metres, not 1.

[@krugerstan]

I like this. Leading with 'pedantry alert' is really the only way to make this comment. Stealing.

[@denelson83]

​@@krugerstanAnd besides, the word in our language is he_c_tare.

[@nitorishogiplayer3465]

The "quee" one was my favourite. If there are more I'd like to see your reactions. I always enjoy seeing depictions of board games in the media

[@t3cchan]

Been waiting for the sequel to the first vid! Your analysis of these scenes cracks me up, man. Happy 2024!

[@wanderer15]

Thank you!

[@TheEssentialHughJazz]

So awesome that you referenced that NCIS scene. It's lived rent-free in my mind since I was a kid

[@T1J]

I wonder what was the first instance in fiction of using scrabble to "spell out your feelings" (especially horny feelings). does anyone have an idea?

[@ohishwaddup]

I never expected to see you on one of these videos! Thanks for turning me on to Jury Duty bro

[@wanderer15]

I've heard that there are Scrabble scenes in Nabokov works and he is certainly no stranger to deviant horniness

[@NikolaiBortnik-l9h]

This is an amazing idea for a video man - you don’t miss with creating awesome content, and I don’t even play scrabble! We need more!

[@frankmerrill2366]

Will, it's so cool that you, as a Grandmaster, have taken so much of your spare time to SHARE your thoughts, techniques, games, analyses, and other fun Scrabble stuff with us! Thank you from me and on behalf of everybody else who also enjoys your videos.

[@wanderer15]

It's my pleasure, thanks for watching!

[@htnog]

I have no business enjoying this channel so much, lol… never played the game, English is not my first language, yet I enjoy the content If you think about expanding the frontiers of the game from hearing about it to playing it, I suggest you to make a 2 and 3 letter words video to help memorize the best ones, and with that encourage people to play for the first time and try out them

[@thegodofpez]

Will, your channel is great. Thank you for your excellent content. Suggestions for some 2024 videos, just out of intrigue: * Highest ratings gain ever, in a shortened period of time? Conversely, exact opposite with most points lost? * Longest documented time penalty in recorded tournament play. * Any 15 letter plays. MICROEARTHQUAKE by Nathan Benedict stands out. It was on ISC. * Most intriguing “steals” in Clabbers. I saw SPANKING get stolen into KNEECAPPINGS, believe it was King Orry. * Any noteworthy 500+ point losses. * Nicest non-bingo 3x3s. * Fastest recorded speed Scrabble victory. This one should be fun. I used to watch Conrad and Evans finish games in < 2 minutes. Amazing. Anyhow, just random drunken requests! (: Cheers, Will. 🎉

[@wanderer15]

These are great ideas, thank you (and appreciate the kind words)

[@N12015]

Interesting. Now that you mention it, Scrabble at top level plays more LIKE A CARD GAME than a grammar puzzle one once you know almost all the words. It uses tiles instead of cards but having the same kind of playpattern than said cards would have, like predicting plays, doing setups, planning for the long term. It doesn't need to play with creatures and spells to be a card game.

[@vari1535]

yup, Will actually made a video highlighting the unexpected similarities (as well as expected differences) between Magic the Gathering and Scrabble!

[@jukappa]

Apparently you have to be extremely passive aggressive to play scrabble on TV. 😂

[@nathanmermilliod3135]

You should review the one from The Loony Tunes show, where Daffy tries to play the word “Darfog,” which bugs of course challenges and asks him to use it in a sentence. Later in the episode, Lola Bunny uses Darfog as a word!

[@wanderer15]

I don't know this one! Putting it on my list.

[@bordersonbudgets]

Family Ties had an entire episode about Scrabble when Alex infamously hoarded all of the U's.

[@wanderer15]

making a note to track this one down

[@asterpw]

This is a fun format! I think you should also give a final score for each scene in terms of accuracy so we can get even more of your perspective.

[@wanderer15]

Good idea!

[@javen9693]

Good video, former North American Scrabble champion and one of the top ranked players in the world, William Anderson.

[@mikuhatsune2988]

Bud may have missed HEKTARE, but you missed a great opportunity for a "rack" joke. A tragedy far greater... by any measure.

[@mikuhatsune2988]

In hindsight, I meant to compliment you on the vertical letters joke that you slipped in. Fair play lmfao that got me good

[@damplamp]

can't believe he missed hektare on his "rack"

[@Szehkzee]

Honestly I would love you to go over some easy to remember bingos and basic strategies to help the average player improve.

[@JohnDoe-ti2np]

If you check out his KZbin channel, he has a series called "Better Know a Letter" with lots of tips.

[@Forensource]

Learn all the common names that make up acceptable names. Like Benjamin Franklin Frank artisan,

[@er4795]

this video was absolutely hilarious. id love to see more

[@lasagnahog7695]

I've watched all of Malcolm in the Middle multiple times and never once considered that the family has a surname.

[@oscarbarnes2130]

This is a great series

[@DashDrones]

It's the same as watching poker games featured in tv shows and movies. It's always so clear nobody has a clue what they're doing..

[@Qaqaq]

It seems like every poker scene in movies or TV always ends up with someone having a royal flush.

[@theskyisteal8346]

As someone who's played video games my whole life and seen people pretend to play them in media, I'm gonna take your word for it even though I can't say I know my way around a deck of cards.

[@zachlyons2425]

The joke about vertical letters was very funny

[@himynameisben95]

"Still a great play from Dillbert's mom."

[@labibsaleem]

Love your content! Keep it up Will!

[@johabee]

Haha, somehow I thought you were going to review the Scrabble scenes in different cities, parts of the world. Like "They have great coffee in X", "Watch out for the phoney playing grannies in Y". Maybe a future video?

[@er4795]

i would love to see this. the scrabble scene here is woeful

[@wanderer15]

I already have plans to do some videos exactly like this (though likely on a country-wide level)

[@johabee]

@@wanderer15 Great to hear! Love to hear about Scrabble in Nigeria for instance. And I heard someone say that etiquette can differ a lot in different parts of the world, curious about that too. Edit: also interested in how Scrabble in different languages, with often different letters, affects the gameplay. "What is the ZA of German Scrabble?"

[@David-ns8ft]

Your certainly correct about scrabble being a hot game, where else can you consistently see such great racks.

[@archuuub]

There's a competitive scrabble scene in an early scene of a movie "Bad genius" from Thailand. Hope you check it out sometimes.

[@wanderer15]

just made a note to check it out!

[@archuuub]

@@wanderer15 fyi kzbin.info/www/bejne/n5-Xp5aXap6ej6Msi=x783EP-9GUhVWTbY

[@mitch-lawless]

This was actually great. I'm unfamiliar with the show, yet I found the Dilbert snippet quite funny.

[@zammerman9424]

I actually played “quixotic” the other day. 100 points. I had “quoxdwm” and decided to take a gamble because I saw an open “t” on “flint” and exhanged “dwm”. I drew “i”, “c”, “blank.” I would have had it on a double-double word score for 150, but they blocked it with “likely” and “flinty” so then I just made the blank a “t” and played through the “i” of likely.

[@kicking222]

This absolutely, positively fucking rules. Unbelievably delightful video.

[@TaleOfTheToaster]

Truly film and television may never touch Scrabble again, for fear of its exposee at the hands of Former North American Scrabble Champion Will Anderson

[@ManyNestedTree]

There’s a brief Scrabble scene in the movie The Wedding Planner!

[@cuggyboysmith81]

Loving the monotonous scrutiny!

[@wanderer15]

Thanks...I think! (I have a very dry/deadpan sense of humor)

[@scrabblefrancophone1544]

Great work as usual, thank you. I can't find anywhere the previous video, is there any reason (such as copyright)?

[@wanderer15]

No, it's still around: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pIOyeYWunrSjotU

[@scrabblefrancophone1544]

@@wanderer15 I've got why I wasn't able to spot it : it's forbidden in France due to copyrights (TF1, the main TV channel, blocked it here). I'll wait to travel abroad ;)

[@clausgiloi6036]

Your deadpan analysis really highlights how stupid these scenes are. Hilarious.

[@ScrabbleEditzzz]

Funniest is dilbert, Dilmom's dance

[@raelsadd]

from my understanding crwth is a welsh word, and they use w as a vowel

[@wanderer15]

correct!

[@degenerate82]

keep the videos coming! Thank you

[@Manigo1743]

I think that changing tiles when you have a bad rack depends on what level player you are. For a high level player, it is obvious to change, because you will have trouble making long words with the letters you have left if you don't change, but a low level player will have trouble making long words with any rack. You may redraw 7 letters for a bingo instead of playing only four tiles, but a player like me would never see that bingo, so I would most likely play a 3-4 letter word from the 7 bingo tiles anyway. If I then hadn't changed on the previous turn, I would at least have added another 3-4 letter word to my score. It doesn't matter much that you have super bingo tiles on your rack if you are not a player who are able to find those bingos.

[@PelumiOTE2B]

"As we know, scrable is one of the sexiest games out there" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@mikeythearchangel]

2:54 omfg 🤣 dude? _____________________ thank you so much :) this is why i love your channel, lololol... ...you are *such* a Scrabble player 👍🤣

[@lorenzoalmond7522]

Mark chose the wrong rack... understandably

[@Juror8]

Can we get a defense of Jaqui Jr's Scrabble play against Meadow in The Sopranos? His "poo" and "ass" were some great lures that she had to ruin by playing the Spanish term "obleekay".

[@wanderer15]

You can find that in my first video a little more than halfway through here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pIOyeYWunrSjotU

[@esbenandersen2168]

A bit unrelated maybe, but how is it decided who reads the letters up side down? Someone must be at a disadvantage?

[@wanderer15]

In more serious tournaments, boards are played on spinning turntables so that the player on turn can see the board right side up (though some players are adept playing upside-down!)

[@TBGaming-TIB]

SOMEONE TELL ME IF NCIS IS PRE 2006

[@andrewadams530]

How would you feel if there was one scrabble tournament a year where they played by Dilbert's mom's rules. Recently in chess we've seen some drama and scandals which come with a lot of online trash talking. I wonder if more spectators, and ultimately more player's attention, would be drawn to the sport by a silly ordeal such as this. All in good fun of course

[@mattgcn]

Watched both your videos only to have no CSI!! EXVIN!!

[@pideperdonus2]

Scrabble is sexy 13:30 we all know that.

[@Fwigid]

Yay! Thanks Will : D

[@tranonehalf]

Link to previous episode?

[@wanderer15]

Just put it in video description (better late than never) but also: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pIOyeYWunrSjotU

[@DadgeCity]

I imagine the Steptoe and Son scene is a little too risque?

[@mikechappell5849]

Probably too British to be on Will's radar

[@MeanBeanComedy]

How was I not subscribed to this channel? I've been fixated on Scrabble for two days already and I'm not subscribed?? I'll fix that. 😎👉🏻👉🏻

[@wanderer15]

Welcome aboard!

[@artful1967]

I get that the SCRABBLE is incidental in the shows but it is just plain lazy. It is like having someone win at poker in a scene with 5 aces.

[@wanderer15]

Yeah, it does make one appreciate the scenes that are done well!

[@elvenstein]

Really funny stuff.

[@leredrasscul]

#suggestion There's a scrabble scene in the movie Sneakers from 1992

[@wanderer15]

noted!

[@davidstone9981]

I hated the Dilbert scene -- do your homework, writers! But there was a potential problem with the NCIS episode as well, other than the score (which, as you point out, was almost definitely too low): the words played suggest that the players are fairly decent for amateurs (despite their misuse of the blanks), yet they leave the triple-triple spot for a QI play? Even TI/TI would have scored twice as much as that TEA play... unless the play was TEA/ASTERN, in which case someone scored 3 points for the S in STERN (rather than saving it while playing TERN) and then TEA scored 9. It's difficult to figure out how the game ended, but clearly that QI spot was open for many turns.

[@MrTandtrollet]

Also, why are they playing CCW!? X-D

[@wanderer15]

Are you referring to the challenge screen I put up for "BUCKETY"? That was just my default setting.

[@MrTandtrollet]

@@wanderer15 No i meant they are goign Counter Clockwise Around the table, that is very unusual when you play with 3+ players for board games I know.

[@wanderer15]

Ahhhh, very good point!

[@albinoorkalbertson]

fantastic!

[@Frommerman]

Calling the Dilbert TV show popular is certainly a claim.

[@EltWilder]

Love it.

[@RyanSmith-pf7ci]

I doubt you'd do a video on this, but this is Norm Macdonald talking about a scrabble game on Letterman: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b5TdoJiwopepp9k

[@Manigo1743]

Isn't scrabble a two player only game?

[@wanderer15]

In tournaments it is, but the box rules do state that it's intended for 2, 3, or 4 players - which is often how games are played at home with family.

[@Manigo1743]

@@wanderer15 Shows how much I know about scrabble. :-)

[@socksygen]

LOL "brazenly" cheating!

[@qqw743]

Chess scenes are similarly bad but have the added burden of always having to convey something heavy. Either they are in the scene to indicate that people are being super smart, or that some supervillain is merciless; or the whole thing is some overburdened analogy -- chess is just like war, chess is just like race relations, chess is like the competition between the sexes, etc. No one ever just plays chess. And when they do play, the pieces are in the wrong places, are moved wrong, or of course, there's the "I'll sit and think for an hour and then find check mate." Notable exceptions: the magical chess in Harry Potter first movie is a recreated well known puzzle and the Queen's Gambit series was all correctly done. Is Scrabble similarly used to indicate something? Like "I'm so smart," I suppose.

[@wanderer15]

Yes, definitely agree that chess as metaphor seems to do a lot of work without any concern for the actual details of the game. It's funny to imagine James Bond vs his adversary blundering or making illegal moves because he has no clue how to play. To your point, it feels like Scrabble is used to indicate a mixture of cleverness akin to chess, but without the gravitas, and sometimes derision for perhaps being overly nerdy/something you do only when bored.

[@krugerstan]

I tried to google Will Anderson and kept getting some lame football player. Google needs to do better.

[@wanderer15]

The sound bites I'm going to be able to use out of context for the next decade will be glorious

[@Frank_E_Scialdone]

MOVIE: SNEAKERS

[@nishusaif6085]

👍👍👍👍👍.

[@asliuf]

lmao

[@Benjy52]

You look especially large today.

[@aguynameddan]

#openverticalopenstrong

[@AlliSinned]

Seeing Dilbert after all of controversial (to say the least) the things its creator has said relatively recently is giving me whiplash lol

[@wanderer15]

Yeah, I hear this. I was already conflicted but I felt slightly less conflicted given that the scene itself is a total mess / ripe to be made fun of.

[@drunkendog4469]

The word "IT" actually moves one tile to the left between the shots of him playing the word and the response of "OUiXOTIC" edit: oh you noticed it too

[@Forensource]

Chill out bingo boy, it is just a cartoon... You probably need to sit down and calculate the Levenshtein distance between quinols and standby. Now, I do feel your pain about mistakes in TV and film-I get miffed when the queen is on the wrong color and such. The answer is 5,

[@dwaynekeenum1916]

Huh

[@kcpenner]

Ever seen The Big Snit? Animated short by Canada’s National Film Board that starts out with a Scrabble game and ends with nuclear war! kzbin.info/www/bejne/pmK2ZqN3e5aMj6M

[@wanderer15]

Yes, a great one to include in a future iteration of these