When Scrabble words LITERALLY sting
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- There's no official Scrabble Play Hall of Fame, but if there was then a recent move made by expert player Trenton Charlson would go straight there. Get ready to be amazed -- and also stung -- by the creativity and craziness of this play!
Is nobody going to talk about how Trenton's first move was a bingo from a rack of INSECT?
Wow haha I never noticed, that's hilarious!
The only 13-letter bingo I've ever seen in a game was HastyBot hitting me with (DECENT)RALIzES 😢
that's a decent play
Fun fact! YELLOWJACKET is a rare NWL-only word. Usually CSW is the one with the unique words, but there are some long words (I think at least 10 letters) that CSW doesn't borrow from NWL.
EDIT: Looking into the list of NWL-only words, there are also a bunch of words deemed too offensive for the CSW list, such as GOY, BINT, CRIP, and SPAZ. And LARP, for some reason...
I think CSW gets updated a year after NWL and we might be between the two right now
@@psymar CSW got updated last year, NWL two years ago
Thanks for the video, Mack! It’s cool to have my game featured.
As I mentioned elsewhere, I did notice the possibility of YELLOWJACKETS on the FOB turn, holding ACS with the J and K still unseen. I know competitive players have different approaches to casual games against bots, but one aspect of playing Hasty I enjoy is getting the freedom to try things I might not quite feel I can justify in a competitive game with any actual stakes. This was the case here (and also why I did not play FOB at 12L for 6 more). I figured that this placement of FOB also might result in multiple plays on the left side of the board leaving the last column open. I did also note the possibility of a 12L play ending in K allowing for YELLOWJACKETS as a 6-tile non-bingo (or even setting it up with ACK after such a play), but of course this wasn’t something I seriously expected to happen.
PODIA and especially GED both seemed defensible in their own right- I remember being particularly pleased with the GED setup and musing about what level of sacrifice I might make if I drew the J or K and it stayed open- when I drew both simultaneously, to my astonishment. It says I spent 35 seconds on that turn, which were divided between gaping at the screen in utter disbelief and dragging the letters onto the screen of my phone.
As far as the BOWMAN play goes, I later did check for possible winning out-bingos in that pool and came to the same conclusion as you, but honestly was too amazed at what had just transpired at the time to do a completely thorough analysis. I think I did a quick scan of the pool and didn’t see anything that could overcome the 110 point lead (though I may have thought that other plays to the D would win by a few more points). (For what it’s worth, I think Hasty is also probably more likely than not to either have the S already after GRIP, or make a play that sheds the U or F instead of that play, but this is a far more detailed level of analysis than I made at the time.) Honestly, though, given that it was a casual game with no real stakes (other than posterity I guess) I think I concluded that the idea of losing to one specific maybe-existent bingo after BOWMAN seemed like a bridge-too-far in terms of amount of absurdity to expect from a single game :)
Thanks Trenton! That all totally makes sense, and can't blame you whatsoever for being in a complete daze after YELLOWJACKETS and not taking the time/having the ability to precisely calculate all of the different outbingos, haha
Mack, you missed the fact that after Trenton plays WOMAN in column A, the bot could easily have responded with JACKETWOMANS for 158pts.
Not possible since J and 2 blanks are used up
Thanks to the thumbnail I saw it as soon as YELLOW came down.
saw this on reddit a few days ago! he mentioned in the replies that he saw it a few moves in advance, but wasn't necessarily just fishing for (YELLOW)JACKETS
Even with the thumbnail and the hints that made me guess the play, I still couldn't believe YELLOWJACKETS was a valid word. It's funny because it's the kind of crazy play that goes through my mind like "haha, imagine playing YELLOWJACKETS here" but dismissing it because it's not a word. It's a brilliant play, not only because of the already available JACKETS but because the confidence of playing it against a bot with full word knowledge
The game was played with Void challenge, meaning that only valid words would be allowed onto the board in the first place; there are no challenges.
If this were a CSW game, it wouldn't be valid. It's one of the rare NWL-only words.
I think it's the sort of thing if you see it, you play it, even if you think it MIGHT not be valid, because you're gonna be kicking yourself for the rest of your life if you play it and it's not valid
How yellow would a jacket need to be until it's consider a yellowjacket?
It's obvious once you see it, you'll be buzzing with excitement.
This word is very weird that it's only valid in NWL not CSW
Saw this on Reddit few days ago and jaw dropped
As of the most recent word lists (if my calculations are right), there are 192,903 words in both lists, 87,984 words only in CSW, and 3,698 words only in NWL (mostly offensive words and long words that didn't get copied from NWL, though one unexpected outlier is LARP).
YELLOWJACKETS comes up as the only solution on several license plates. That might have already come up in a prior video here.
I feel like it has!
It's interesting for me to learn that yellowjacket isn't as well-known of a word as I would have thought! From Washington, born and raised, it never would've crossed my mind as an uncommon word because yellowjackets are all over. It's more shocking to me that it's not in CSW!
For casual viewers, you should do a constructed game where all the words are ridiculous phonies, and just act like it's normal.
I was waiting for YELLOWJACKETS from the beginning thanks to the title and thumbnail, but at 2:15 I briefly wondered if we were going to see JACKETS followed by STRAI(G)HT(JACKETS) for 347.
I don't believe that spelling of it is allowed in either dictionary, but that would've been sick lol.
@@zVersee STRAIGHTJACKETS is valid in both NWL And CSW!
@ Oh huh, good to know thanks!
You'd have to make an overlap somewhere in order to hit 161 with a triple triple, as 161 is not of the form 9*n+50. So that particular score is even less likely :)
Makes you wonder which single-turn scores have occurred, and which still haven't. Kinda like scorigami for Scrabble!
One day someone is going to get a word down like this in competitive over the board scrabble and its going to be legendary. Still an amazing find even knowing the word it's not a place you would normally check. I wonder what other extensions of yellow there are and if any of them were possible to be drawn aside from jackets
I am surprised yellowjackets is a word
Have you never called them that?
Read the title as “sing” instead of “sting” and was very confused/intrigued the entire video 😂 only to re-read at the end and feel like an idiot
What a crazy play! A 13! I don't think there has been a 13 in any of your clabbers videos yet. I wonder how long it will be before one comes down?
I'm sure it will sooner or later!
Has anyone played a 15-letter bingo?
Yep! Jim Geary once played EXISTENTIALISTS from EXISTENT on the board, I believe this was featured in a Will Anderson video a while ago
YELLOWHAMMERS get chased by YELLOWJACKETS
TFW you’re glad to be playing NWL - not only is YELLOWJACKETS NWL-only, HastyBot has another winning response to the BOWMAN in CSW with OUTHIRED#.
wow, that is awesome
He had to be fishing for yellowjackets, right?
Not explicitly but he saw the possibility ahead of time
Not literally.
Eh, I've seen higher-scoring double-doubles. Hell, I've seen higher-scoring plays with just a single double word... (/s)
That aside, I feel like your Scrabble History videos have changed style a bit, becoming a fair bit more compact, and really gotta say, I'm a fan.
Breaking News: NWL just added the word QXZJKHHF, which can be played through either the X, the J, the K or the first H hitting exactly one double-word score and putting both ten-point tiles on double letter scores for 196 points. (I think this is the most points one could possibly score at once with an 8-letter word when restricted by having to go through exactly one double word score and by the tile distribution of regular Scrabble but not the dictionary)
This is at either C7 or M7, also it can be played to the F
Thanks!
Hi mack❤
Hi!