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In 2006, three Scrabble records were shattered in a playful game between two Massachusetts men, a carpenter named Michael Cresta and a deli worker named Wayne Yorra. The match managed to break the North American Scrabble records for most points earned in a single play (365), highest individual score (830), and most combined points in a game (1,320). 

The word Cresta played to set the single play record was QUIXOTRY (defined as “behavior inspired by romantic beliefs without regard to reality”). According to experts, Cresta wouldn’t have been able to pull off the move in a tournament game of Scrabble because professional players wouldn’t have left an opening for him to do so.

But Cresta’s impressive move still falls short of the feat Karl Khoshnaw managed in 1982. The international Scrabble legend earned 392 points with CAZIQUES (which is the plural of a type of oriole). It remains the world’s top-scoring single Scrabble move ever.

And though no one’s managed to use it yet, the theoretic

Having a knowledge of all of the two-letter words will greatly improve your Scrabble gameplay, either when you need to build off an existing tile to form a new word, or at the end of the game when you have two or three tiles left and need to dump them off as quickly as possible. Two-letter words are also very useful when playing a new word parallel (alongside, above, or beneath) to an existing word.

By knowing words with prefixes and suffixes, you'll be able to piggyback off of your opponents' scores.

Common examples for suffixes include S, -ED, -ER, -ING, -LY, -ENT, -IEST, -FUL, -ITY, -NESS, -CY, -AL, -TION, -ITE in addition to prefixes NON-, EX-, TRI-, PRE-, and MIS-.

For example, if you add the suffix "ER" to "JUMP," you can make the word "JUMPER." Or if your opponent played the word "VERBAL," you can add the prefix "NON" to make "NONVERBAL" and rack up points.

These prefixes and suffixes can also be handy to make Bingo and get the 50 point bonus.

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