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The cheating was spotted by a player at a nearby table, who noticed the ejected player conceal a pair of blank tiles by dropping them on the floor, organizers said. Blank tiles can be used as wild card letters. When confronted by the tournament director, he admitted to it, organizers said.

1 posted on 08/15/2012 1:29:08 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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2 posted on 08/15/2012 1:33:19 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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3 posted on 08/15/2012 1:33:22 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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Uh oh, Kwyjibo on the loose!


5 posted on 08/15/2012 1:37:20 PM PDT by dfwgator
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He forgot the Letter of the Law.

6 posted on 08/15/2012 1:38:10 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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the cheater must be a democrat


7 posted on 08/15/2012 1:40:20 PM PDT by drypowder
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I surprised this guy wasn’t arrested and attempted fraud charges brought against him. The prize was $10,000, so winning by cheating certainly would amount to larceny.


8 posted on 08/15/2012 1:41:37 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty ("Get that evil, foreign, muslim, usurping bastard out of MY White House!" FUBO GTFO!)
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I wuz caught cheating at Parcheesi once but dang it, it was a high-stakes game...


9 posted on 08/15/2012 1:45:29 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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That’s nothing, man, I was once rejected from a Pick Up Sticks National Tournament.


10 posted on 08/15/2012 1:45:32 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong!)
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Who would have thought that Biden would even think of entering a Scrabble tournament?


13 posted on 08/15/2012 1:58:11 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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Later at the news conference the cheater just stood there with a BLANK stare when his request for BLANKet amnesty was denied.

The next day he admitted in was very infanTILE of him to do this.

16 posted on 08/15/2012 2:09:40 PM PDT by I Drive Too Fast
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what’s wrong with this kid that cheating at a scrabble tournament is some how a good idea? How can you be sooo focussed on a game-—as GAME fer cryin out loud-—that you want to chet to win...Oh yeah O is the example never mind


20 posted on 08/15/2012 2:40:03 PM PDT by Nifster
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Once upon a time when I was playing Scabble with my uncle, he decided he could add “fox” to my existing “moon” to yield a nice score with “moon fox”.

I objected. There is no such thing as a “moonfox”.

I lost the argument but noticed at once that I was holding a “y” and there was a triple word score square open right next to that “x” in “moonfox”.

Faster than greased lightning I placed that “y” next to that “x” creating a word describing the main characteristic of a “moonfox” : “moonfoxy”.

I won that argument and the game.


21 posted on 08/15/2012 3:19:29 PM PDT by InterceptPoint (.)
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“It gets pretty deep. We’re one step away from drug testing,” Williams joked.

Pretty serious about their craft that Scrabble crowd is.

26 posted on 08/15/2012 4:21:59 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
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I'm surprised this wasn't one of the prime time shows on espn.

The poker game must had ran longer than expected.

27 posted on 08/15/2012 4:26:48 PM PDT by A Cyrenian (Timothy Geithner - proving TurboTax is not idiot proof.)
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