Controversy erupts in the competitive Scrabble world as three world records are destroyed in one game by a pair of club amateurs.

"If they weren't really trying to win," an intermediate-level player named Mike Eldeiry wrote on the Crossword Games-Pro message board, "then can we really consider it our record? Fun, yeah. Neat, sure. Promotable, why not? But record, ummmmmmmm, I don't know." Eldeiry told me the game reminded him of a 600-foot batting-practice home run. If experts always shot for the moon, he said, "I think they'd have cracked 850 by now. But they'd have lost a lot of games in the process."

Maybe, but there definitely seems to be some sour grapes amongst the experts here. See the article for the play-by-play analysis.

Wow! That's incredible. I've played a LOT of scrabble in my lifetime, and I don't think I've ever broken 400.

My high score is 419. No sour grapes here, but I'm highly suspect of this claim.

....no bragging here. That was awhile ago and I am beginning to think it was a one time fluke.

I found words that aren't my scrabble dictionary..