Scrabble Australia

CSW24

Nov 3 A new edition of Collins Scrabble Words has been published. It has 1816 additions, 847 of them being words of length 3 to 8. There are no new two letter words. Deletions include ALF (and ALFS).
In Australia we will use it from Jan 1, 2025. In Victoria it will be used for the Decathon on Dec 29.

OWO and UWU : emoticons for surprise and cuteness.

Resources

Word lists here
Book [Seventh Edition]
- Amazon $36.62
- Harper Collins $45
Not till late January
Computers
- Zyzzyva MacOS
- Zyzzyva Windows 64 bit
iOS
- Zyzzyva
- ULU
Android
- Zyzzyva
- Word App Pro

Tasmanian Championship

Oct 26 Congratulations to Jonathon Ford-King, winner of the State Championship for 2024.

Nationals 2025 Adelaide — Registration Open

Oct 28

Join us in Adelaide from 19-21 April 2025 for the Scrabble National Championships. You can now easily register and pay. Please go here for all details.

World Seniors Championship

Oct 23

Top 10 at Seniors — Joanne, Sally … GOAT … Tony

Australia was well represented at the World Seniors Scrabble Tournament in Malaysia. The event was won by Nigel Richards who is now, believe it or not, regarded as a senior, joining the ranks of the hallowed Keith Richards, Karen Richards and Paul Richards. Australians earned places as follows: Sally Martin (3rd), Joanne Craig (5th), Howard Rayner (8th), Susan Rayner (9th), Tony Hunt (10th), Karrin Henderson (12th), Olga Visser (14th), Carmel Dodd (18th), Paul Richards (21st), Arnold Appelhopf (27th), Siva Sivapalasundram (29th) and Karen Richards (30th).

New South Wales Championship

Oct 5-7

Top 3 at NSW Champs 2024 — Rod, Edward, Jane

36 players from NSW and interstate battled it out over three days. A side event on Sunday attracted a further 11 players. The top three:

Edward Okulicz: 17⁺¹¹⁵³
Jane Taylor: 17⁺⁵⁶⁷
Rod Talbot: 16⁺¹⁶⁸

Edward successfully defended the title that he had won last year. Jane gained 109 ratings points and young Ryder Lo gained 120. Josh Watt set new records for 2024 (high game and high spread) with his score of 720 to 246. Few players ever get a score of over 700 and this is the first for several years.

Trans Tasman Team

Sep 9

The dates and venue for the 2024 Trans Tasman have been settled. Over three days, Friday 15 ^th to Sunday 17 ^th November 2024, twelve Aussies and twelve Kiwis will play 24 rounds at Mount Eden, a picturesque suburb of Auckland. The Australian team is Russell Honeybun, Esther Perrins, Victor Tung, Rod Talbot, Ryan Sutton, Bob Jackman, Karen Richards, Jane Taylor, Paul Richards, Rocky Sharma, Chris Ostrowski, Asanka Dissanayake
The Australian team is selected by rating performance over 11½ months, see selection process.
ScrabbleNZ have plans to live stream games on YouTube

World Youth Scrabble Championship

Sep 8

Three Australians competed in the World Youth Scrabble Championship in Sri Lanka. They achieved placings: Oscar 19th, Ashwin 74th, Danira 130th. A great experience for them all, meeting other youth from around the world. The overall winner was Affan Salman from Pakistan.

Australian Masters and State Challenge

Sep 8

The Australian Masters has been won by David Eldar.
The State Challenge was won by team NSW.

Greg Pinchbeck, Jyoti Chandna, Tony Hunt

Inaugural Australian Junior Scrabble Championship

Aug 25

Junior Champ Oscar — 1st: Oscar Ivanovski, 7 wins +1563 margin

The inaugural Australian Junior Scrabble Championship took place in Sydney. 32 players took part. The first Australian Junior Scrabble Champion emerged as Oscar Ivanovski who won all 7 games.
Prizes were also given by age band.
Oscar will proceed to represent Australia at the World Youth Scrabble Championship in Sri Lanka. Ashwin Page and Danira da Silva will also be playing.

Queensland Championship

Aug 18 Cameron Farlow wins the Queensland Championship yet again.

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