“We’ll have a bottle of Chianti, that’s twelve,” said Howard indicating his choice on the wine list.
“With respect sir, Chianti is six. Number twelve is Liebfraumilch”
“Liebfraumilch is twenty-five my man” bellowed Howard.
The wine waiter appeared somewhat confused.
“Excuse my colleague,” said George. “We are celebrating Howard becoming this year’s Scrabble champion. Chianti scores twelve points!”
“Ah, now I understand sir. How about Oxyphenbutazone?” asked the wine waiter.
“What kind of wine is that?” asked Howard.
“No sir, the medication known as oxyphenbutazone is the highest scoring Scrabble word and it garners 1778 points”
With that, he shuffled off with a superior look on his face. The customarily lucid Howard was momentarily speechless!
The sommelier returned, a straw-clad bottle cradled in his white-gloved hands.
”Three four one one one one one sir,” he said pouring some Chianti into Howard’s glass.
For the penultimate time, Sunday Photo Fiction is being hosted by Susan Spaulding. Padre of Padre’s Ramblings provided the picture.
Prod the frog to see other’s tales!
Yes, but how would you make the word oxyphenbutazone? I think my highest scoring word ever was clothing -212 pts.
I’ve no idea – I’m not a Scrabbler! I Googled ‘longest Scrabble word’ and that’s what popped up!
Okay. I googled it and that is rather mind-boggling.
What a great construct for a story!
Very kind of you Mimi.
Trying to work out how to get it too with only seven letters to play at a time, though it would stretch either fully down or across the board (15 squares square), so would get a triple triple. Must try it! (I don’t get out much)
I bow to your superior knowledge!
Ha! Not really Keith, I just enjoy a game of scrabble.
I enjoy Scrabble. However, and to add to poor howard’s woes, I’d disqualify Chianti because it’s a proper now and those aren’t allowed. But the waiter has the winner. for sure.
Fortunately he wasn’t playing the game at the time or that would have been embarrassing!
Definitely. And please pardon all the typos! I meant a proper noun.
Too funny!! I used to play a lot of Scrabble, now I settle for Words with Friends on my iPad.
BTW, I tagged you in this post…hope you’ll join in the fun!
https://dbmcnicol.com/circus-comes-to-town/
I’ve not tried Words with Friends – I’ll investigate! Thanks for the tag Donna.
yay beat him at his own game now did he?
That he did!
Well done!
Thanks so much Sascha