Mrs Brown's never lost for words in Scrabble
- Alyssa Kimlin
- 5th August 2008
Jane Brown – competitive Scrabble player.
WHEN most people play Scrabble, the board is dotted with words like cat, dog and bird, but when Jane Brown plays, it's not unusual to see words like cazique across the playing squares.
But for Mrs Brown, the ultimate word to get on her stand is retains, as it can form up to 11 words.
Mrs Brown has been playing Scrabble all her life, but she has only been playing competitively for the past 11 years.
“I always played it when I was young – and I loved it,” she said.
“I saw there was a Scrabble club and thought 'I'll give it a go'.
“I like the words and the competitive nature of it.”
Mrs Brown, who is ranked 8th in the Queensland Masters Division for Scrabble, puts her success down to the tactics she has learnt and a love of words.
“There is both knowledge and tactics involved,” she said.
“I like to think there is more skill than luck involved.”
And for those of you, like me, who don't know what a cazique is, it's a black-and-red or black-and-yellow oriole, a bird of the American tropics.
Highest game: 630 points
Highest word: 158 (scored with generics on a “triple triple”, achieved when a word covers two triple word scores.
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