[jambutty]

I suppose that every Scrabble player must have wondered at one time or another what is the highest score made with just one word?

I was no different and spent many hours trying all sorts of combinations to determine a result. I have found that it is possible to score 1,022 points with one word.

Before anyone goes wow! I have to confess that it was set up. What I mean is that I worked backwards and placed tiles on the board to make up words to my advantage. For instance I set things up so that during the game I placed my seven tiles to add to the already placed eight letters to form a 15 letter word across the top which just happened to have the three treble word squares and the two double letter squares empty for me to put my tiles into. Thus I got the treble word three times as well as the 50 points bonus for being a smart ass. The word was PSYCHOTHERAPIST.

O.K. just to prove the point this is what happened:-

I arranged to draw the following letters in this order:-
XUSEALT EBLREM HOJAMOR EE ABOVDWN ERIN SPS YC HP T

SEXUAL across the board with the "E" on the centre square.
TEBLREM to meet up with the "S" to make TREMBLES
HO to meet the "T" in TREMBLES to make HOT
JAMOREE across TREMBLES to make JAMBOREE
ABOV to meet the last "E" of JAMBOREE to make ABOVE
DWN across ABOVE to make DOWN
ER to meet the "A" of ABOVE to make ERA
IN to meet the "N" of DOWN to make INN
S to meet the "I" of INN to make IS
PSYCHPT in the 7 empty spaces in the top row to make
PSYCHOTHERAPIST

P=3, S=1, Y=4, C=3x2, H=4, O=1, T=1, H=4, E=1, R=1, A=1,
P=3x2, I=1, S=1, T=1 which all adds up to 36.
Triple word score 3 times is 36 x 3 x 3 x 3 = 972 + 50 = 1022