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00:01Do you think you're word perfect? Our players do.
00:05And tonight they are engaging in a war of words for their chance to win $10,000.
00:10It's time for Scrabble.
00:23Hi, welcome to Scrabble. I'm Craig Ferguson.
00:26Let's meet tonight's players, starting with our returning champion.
00:30I'm Joe, an integration architect from Warrington, Pennsylvania.
00:34I'm Kelsey, a high school teacher from Gerritson, South Dakota.
00:38I'm Cindy. I'm a content designer from Chicago, Illinois.
00:42Wow, welcome to you guys. Welcome back to Joe, our returning champion.
00:47Your winnings at the moment are $14,850.
00:51Very impressive.
00:54Kelsey and Cindy, I don't know if you're aware of how well Joe has done.
00:57Did you know he had done so well?
00:59Does it intimidate you in any way?
01:02Everyone has their reign, and reigns do come to an end sometimes.
01:05Well, yes, that's true, yes.
01:07You feel confident too, Cindy?
01:09No.
01:10OK.
01:11I think that's also, it's good to be honest.
01:13But let me just say, welcome to the show, you lot.
01:15I can't wait to see you all in action on our supersized Scrabble board.
01:19Look at the size of that thing. Look at it.
01:20To give you a sense of perspective, I'm 10 foot tall.
01:24Look at that.
01:25Isn't that amazing?
01:27All right.
01:28The three of you are about to battle it out in three rounds of word games.
01:32The player with the most points moves on to our final round for a chance to win $10,000.
01:38Now, the key to being a strong Scrabble player, as you all know, is the ability to look at random
01:43letters and turn them into words.
01:45I'm going to present you with racks of scrambled letters and clues.
01:49Your job is to find the words that match those clues.
01:52The first two players to get four correct will move on to the next round for a chance to win
01:57$10,000.
01:59You guys ready to play?
02:01Yes.
02:01Yes.
02:02All right.
02:04Let's play Scrabble.
02:09All right.
02:09Here comes the first word, always through the center square, of course, at the start of a new game.
02:13The clue word is laundry.
02:16Here are your scrambled letters.
02:21Joe.
02:22Hamper.
02:23Put your laundry in the hamper.
02:25Yes, you do.
02:27Champion kicks off with one.
02:29All right, ladies.
02:30Everything okay?
02:31We're okay.
02:31It's only the first point.
02:33We're just getting started.
02:34All right.
02:35Here comes the next word.
02:37Down from the M in hamper, the clue word is ticket.
02:41Here are your scrambled letters.
02:45Kelsey.
02:46Movie.
02:47Movie.
02:48Get a ticket for the movie.
02:51You go to the movies, Kelsey?
02:53Every once in a while.
02:54Yeah, you do.
02:55Where do you live?
02:56South Dakota.
02:57You've got the drive-in movies there in South Dakota.
02:59We actually do have a few drive-in movies.
03:01Definitely the way to see it.
03:02Yeah.
03:02In South Dakota, there's enough room.
03:04There are plenty.
03:05Do you have drive-in movies where you are?
03:07I think so.
03:08Where are you from?
03:09From Chicago.
03:10Chicago.
03:10I don't think there's that many.
03:11Maybe out in the suburbs.
03:13All right.
03:13Next word on the board.
03:15Let's see what we got.
03:16Through the I in movie, the clue word is here to you.
03:20Pearsay.
03:20Here are your scrambled letters.
03:24Kelsey.
03:26Gossip.
03:26It's gossip, girl.
03:28Yeah, it is.
03:30Kelsey's on two, Joe's on one.
03:32Cindy, yet to get started, but it's early days.
03:35Here comes the next word.
03:37Through the R in hamper.
03:40Clue word is direction.
03:42Here are your scrambled letters.
03:45Cindi.
03:46Forward.
03:47Let's keep going forward in one direction.
03:54All right.
03:55Here comes the next word.
03:57From the A in forward, the clue word is sponge.
04:01Here are your scrambled letters.
04:05Joe.
04:07Absorb.
04:08Soak it up, baby.
04:11Soak it up.
04:14Joe on two.
04:15Kelsey on two.
04:16Cindy, come on.
04:17Let's get cracking.
04:18Here comes the next word.
04:20Through the O in absorb.
04:22The clue word is festive.
04:25Here are your scrambled letters.
04:30Cindy.
04:31Holiday.
04:33Holiday.
04:35The three-way tie at the moment.
04:36All right.
04:37Let's go to the next word.
04:39Through the D in holiday, the clue word is optimal.
04:45Here are your scrambled letters.
04:48Kelsey.
04:49Ideal.
04:51Ideal.
04:53Kelsey on three, Cindy on two, Joe on two.
04:57Last word for this board.
04:58Let's have a look at it.
05:00Through the Y in holiday, the clue word is holiday.
05:04Lunatic.
05:05Here are your scrambled letters.
05:11Cindy.
05:12Psycho.
05:17The pressure's on now, champ.
05:20So we're going to start off with a new board.
05:22Let's look at this new board.
05:23There it is.
05:24All right.
05:24With a new board, the first word always goes through the center square.
05:28Okay.
05:29The clue word is dance.
05:32Here are your scrambled letters.
05:35Kelsey.
05:39Oh.
05:39Didn't get it.
05:40I'm going to throw it open to Joe or Cindy.
05:41Cindy's in there.
05:42What is it, Cindy?
05:43Disco.
05:44Disco.
05:45Disco.
05:46Yeah.
05:49Congratulations, Cindy.
05:50You've made it through to the next round.
05:51You were the first to identify four scrambled words.
05:54You can sit the rest of this one out.
05:55You can relax or do some disco dancing.
05:57Relax.
05:58It's fine.
05:59All right, you two.
06:00It's between Kelsey, our challenger, and Joe, our champion.
06:04Kelsey, you have three.
06:05Joe, you have two.
06:06Kelsey, if you get this, you're moving on.
06:08Joe, you've got to get this to stay in the game.
06:12Through the S in disco, the clue word is farming.
06:19Here are your scrambled letters.
06:22Kelsey.
06:23Harvest.
06:24Harvest.
06:25You reap what you sow, Kelsey.
06:28There you are.
06:29Kelsey, congratulations.
06:31You made it through to the next round.
06:33You're both going to be playing for the chance of winning $10,000.
06:38Joe, our rainy champion, thanks for joining us.
06:41I hope you had fun.
06:42You're going home with $14,850.
06:47Great job.
06:48When we come back, Kelsey and Cindy will continue to compete for the $10,000 right here on Scrabble.
06:55Right here when we come back.
07:10Welcome back to Scrabble.
07:12I am here with Kelsey and Cindy.
07:14And it's time for these two players to continue their word battle to see who will be moving on for
07:18a chance to win $10,000.
07:22First off, congratulations to you both because you ousted our reigning champion.
07:28It's South Dakota versus Chicago.
07:31It's the battle of the Midwest.
07:33This will be politeness and passive-aggressive tension.
07:39It's going to be bad.
07:41But you'll never know because everyone will be smiling.
07:44In this next round, our players will be presented with six racks of letters.
07:50Voila!
07:51Which is French for look at that.
07:53Now, the goal is to place the best words on the board.
07:56You will earn the Scrabble point value for each of the three words that you make.
08:01Remember, this is a game of both vocabulary and strategy.
08:05Do not forget to take advantage of the bonus squares.
08:08You guys ready?
08:08Ready.
08:09OK.
08:10Let's play Scrabble.
08:13All right, Cindy, you were the first to unscramble four words in round one.
08:17Would you like to go first or second?
08:18I'll go first.
08:19To help you decide, I'm going to flip over the highest-valued tile on each rack.
08:24There you are.
08:25They're all up there.
08:27What do you think, Cindy?
08:28Anything help you?
08:29Anything grab you?
08:30Yeah.
08:31I think I'm going to go for one of the quote-unquote easier letters rather than the V.
08:37I think I'm going to go for rack four with the H, please.
08:39Rack four with the H. Here are your letters.
08:43I, D, H, T, A, E, N.
08:47What do you think?
08:48See N in there?
08:49Yep.
08:50Thine.
08:51Okay.
08:52Hat, had, hate, heat, meet, date, lots of options.
09:02All right.
09:03Yeah.
09:03Anything you're going to play?
09:04I'm going to play thine with the E on the center square.
09:09Thine with the E on the center square gives you a double letter on the T.
09:13Double word because it's the first word on the board and you're on the center square.
09:18Gives you a total of 18 points for your first word.
09:20Very good.
09:21Very good, Cindy.
09:22All right, Kelsey.
09:23It's your turn.
09:23Like to choose a rack?
09:24So I think I'll go with rack number two with the P.
09:29Your letters are O-R-P-E-D-E-M.
09:34Yeah.
09:35Okay.
09:35So I'm seeing prom.
09:37You have a version of roam and dome and rope and roped.
09:41Um, let's see, mode, repo.
09:46Hmm.
09:46You settling in on anything yet?
09:48I would like to play the word moped.
09:51Or I guess it could be moped as well.
09:53And it'll stack on top of thine starting with the I.
09:57Moped.
09:58You moped on your moped.
09:59It gives you me, on, and pay.
10:02You get a double letter on the O and a double letter on the E.
10:05Gives you a total of 23 points for that turn.
10:08Nice job.
10:10Kelsey has 23.
10:12Cindy has 18.
10:13Still too close to call.
10:14Cindy, your turn.
10:15What rack would you like to play?
10:16I think I will do the first rack with the B, please.
10:21Here are your letters.
10:22E-R-M-O-A-A-B.
10:26I see, uh, lots of words that are going to come to me.
10:31Perm, um, uh, robe, moon, mooner, with the O.
10:42I'm going to play robed, playing off of the D in moped.
10:47Triple letter on the E gives you a total of 10 points.
10:5110 points.
10:52Takes you up to 20 points.
10:54Nice job.
10:54All right.
10:56Uh, Cindy has 28.
10:58Kelsey, 23.
10:59Kelsey, it's your turn.
11:00What would you like, please?
11:02My three-year-old daughter's favorite letter is K.
11:04OK.
11:05So I think I have to pick rack number five with a K for her.
11:10All right.
11:10The letters are N-Y-U-K-D-W-I.
11:16Mm.
11:17OK.
11:18So right off the bat, I see the word wink or winky.
11:23Um.
11:24Can we say winky?
11:25Dunk.
11:26Based on what we have built here.
11:29I would like to spell the word win, and it's going to run alongside the middle letters
11:34of robed, starting at the O going through the E.
11:39Win.
11:39Down the side of a rope gives you the word out, bye, and N.
11:44You get a double word on the I, and a double word on the I, again, gives you 27 points.
11:51Takes you up to 50 points, Kelsey.
11:53Excellent job.
11:57All right, Cindy.
11:58Uh, this is your final rack.
12:00Yes.
12:00You've got 28 points, and Kelsey still has one turn to play.
12:03She has 50.
12:04So you need to score high here.
12:06Which rack are you going to select?
12:07Good luck.
12:08Um, I think I'll select rack six with a V.
12:10I have to go high.
12:11Six with a V. You're right.
12:12Go high.
12:13Six with a V.
12:14So your letters are L-T-V-O-A-F-S.
12:20I see loaf in full right away with the S that could be added on.
12:25And I see vow, um, and avow with the S as well.
12:32Um, so I think I'm going to play, I think I'm going to play avows, um, off of the ow.
12:42Avows across the ow.
12:44Double letter on the A, double word on the S, gives you a total of 24 points.
12:48Takes you up to 52 points for you, Cindy.
12:54Kelsey, you need to score three points in this last round to make it to the final round.
12:59Okay.
13:00Good luck.
13:02All right.
13:02Here are the, uh, last rack of letters.
13:05T-I-L-R-T-I-E.
13:10So title sticks out to me right away.
13:14Um, also I think we can go with some smaller words like light or tie or tire.
13:21You have to score a big three here.
13:22I, I know.
13:23And I have scored two multiple times.
13:25Yeah, yeah.
13:25No, that's my Scrabble technique as well.
13:27I, I can get it low.
13:28Um, I think I will spell the word title running under the P-E spelling pet.
13:36There it is.
13:37Title.
13:38You got a double letter on the I.
13:40You needed three points to go through the next round.
13:43You got 11 points, which takes you up to 61 points, which means you're going through to the next round.
13:49Cindy, thank you for playing.
13:51It was a good game, but, Kelsey, well done.
13:54When we come back, we'll see if Kelsey can find the right words to bring home $10,000 here on
13:59Scrabble.
14:00We'll be right back, everybody.
14:17Welcome back to Scrabble, everybody.
14:19I'm here with Kelsey, the pride of South Dakota, who's our last Scrabbler standing, about to play for $10,000.
14:27Well done, Kelsey.
14:29Is South Dakota the one with the, uh, with Mount Rushmore or is that North Dakota?
14:34No, it's South Dakota.
14:35Definitely ours.
14:35Do you ever go to Mount Rushmore and just, like, look at it?
14:38Um, it was all the way on the other side of the state, so five and a half hour drive
14:42from where I'm at.
14:43Yeah, I wouldn't either.
14:44All right.
14:44Any particular words you're proud of today that you did?
14:47I mean, you did very well.
14:48What's the one that you think nailed it for you?
14:49Well, honestly, I really feel like the stacking that I did with Wynn was, uh, was a good one.
14:56See, stacking is the way to go.
14:57I think it is.
14:58If you're at home and thinking, I'd like to play competitive Scrabble, learn to stack.
15:01That's what I'm saying.
15:02All right.
15:03Well, let's see if stacking will help you now.
15:05Let's see if your strong word play can continue.
15:08In this final round, points equal money.
15:10You will have seven chances to play seven words.
15:13You'll earn the Scrabble point value for each word.
15:16And if your seven words total up to 200 points, you win $10,000.
15:23If you don't make it to 200 points, you won't be going home empty handed.
15:27You still earn $25 for each point.
15:31So every word counts.
15:33Every word makes you money.
15:34Ready?
15:35I think so.
15:36Okay.
15:36Let's play Scrabble.
15:42Time to play your first word.
15:44All right.
15:44Here are your letters.
15:46C-H-I-R-A-T-K.
15:51Well, I'm seeing actually quite a few words out of that.
15:55Obviously easy ones like hair, air, chair.
15:58But I also like that C-K pairing.
16:01I'd like to probably optimize that K by putting it on a double letter score.
16:05Mm.
16:06I think I'm going to start with the word track.
16:09I'm going to start the T in the center square and end with the K on the double letter square.
16:15T on the center square across to the K on the double letter square.
16:20It is a double word score, of course, because it is the first word on the board, which gives you
16:24a total of 32 points for your first word.
16:27Very good.
16:28Very good.
16:30It's time for your second word.
16:32Here are your letters.
16:35H-I-A-D-Z-U-N.
16:40There is a place to put it, but I think it might be better if I hold on to that
16:45Z.
16:46Okay.
16:46All right.
16:47I think my best option is to try and stretch out the board.
16:50I think I'm going to go ahead and go with chin.
16:52Down from the C ending on the double word score.
16:55Chin down from the C in track gives you a double word score on the end.
17:00Gives you a total of 18 points.
17:02Very good.
17:02Takes you up to 50 points.
17:05It's only your second word.
17:06You've got 50 points.
17:07You've got five words to go.
17:09You've got 150 points to get to get to that 200 points that will get you to the 10,000.
17:14Yes.
17:14All right.
17:15What letters are you hoping for now?
17:16What do you see?
17:17Well, I would love an S.
17:18I think that would do me a lot of good just because I could hook it on to the other
17:22words that I have going on.
17:24Let's see if you get one.
17:25All right.
17:26A-D-Z-U-O-H-T.
17:30Hmm.
17:31No S.
17:31No S on that one.
17:33I know that I could use that A to make China and hook on to that.
17:39Right.
17:40Not a ton of options that I'm really loving.
17:44I think I will spell the word hat using the triple letter score for the H spelling high and an
17:51moving down from chin.
17:52You got it.
17:53There it is.
17:55H twice on the triple letter.
17:57It also gives you high and an gives you a total of 29 points.
18:02Excellent play.
18:03Takes you up to 79 points.
18:05You're on your fourth word.
18:07All right.
18:07Here are your letters.
18:08D-Z-U-O-U-D-R.
18:14No S.
18:15Wow.
18:15Two U's.
18:16Two U's.
18:17Two U's.
18:18That is quite the conundrum.
18:21Hmm.
18:23Not seeing a great place to use that Z yet.
18:26So I am going to spell the word dower moving down from an.
18:31So I'm going to spell and and then going through the double word score.
18:35So it's and and dower.
18:37Very good.
18:38Gives you a double word on the O of dower.
18:40Gives you 14 points.
18:41It's a great play because it's not a lot of points but it gets you out to the edge of
18:45the board.
18:46Very clever.
18:46Yes.
18:47All right.
18:47So you have 93 points.
18:49You need 107.
18:50All right.
18:52You have three words left.
18:54This could be done.
18:55All right.
18:55Let's see what you get.
18:57Z-U-D.
18:59You wanted that.
19:00I-E-X-L.
19:03Okay.
19:04That's a bit better, isn't it?
19:05Okay.
19:05The X is interesting.
19:07I guess I wasn't necessarily expecting to see that letter out there.
19:13I am going to spell the word lux going down with the L starting at the and making land
19:19going across as well.
19:20There it is.
19:21Lux makes the word land.
19:23U-T.
19:25Lux gives you a double letter on the X.
19:2826 points.
19:29Very good score.
19:30Takes you up to 119 points.
19:32You need 81.
19:34You have two words left, but you're out in the high scoring area.
19:38I think you made the right choices.
19:39All right.
19:39Let's see what you get.
19:40We've got a Z, a D, I, C, U, I, M.
19:47I would love to find an opportunity to take advantage of some of those bigger tiles like
19:54an M or a C or a Z.
19:56Mmm.
19:57I think I'm going to spell the word curd using the R in track.
20:03Very nice.
20:05Curd, double letter on the U, double letter on the D. Gives you 10 points.
20:10Takes you up to 129 points.
20:14Uh, 71 to go.
20:15Don't forget, you're still making $25 for every Scrabble point there is.
20:20So you're doing okay, but let's try and get you to the 10.
20:22That'd be great.
20:23All right.
20:24Here are your last rack of letters.
20:28Z, I, I, M, R, S. There it is.
20:34O.
20:35So I was really hoping for an S so I could spell luxes, and then that opens up a few
20:39things
20:40I would hope.
20:41I could also go with dowers.
20:43I am going to take advantage of that S and I'm going to spell rims going through the triple
20:49word score and landing the S under luxe.
20:53Luxes and rims.
20:55Very good.
20:55You get the triple word on the M.
20:58You needed 71 points.
21:00It got you a total of 30 points, which takes you up to 159 points.
21:05It's still a great score.
21:06You didn't quite get there, but not to worry, because at $25 per point, you've still won
21:12$3,975.
21:15Cool.
21:16All right.
21:17Now let's see how much more you can win by getting into another game right now.
21:23Let's bring on your new opponents.
21:24Come on, you guys.
21:29Hello, my friends.
21:31Please go ahead and introduce yourself, would you?
21:34I'm Ilan.
21:35I'm a medical student, and I come from Katona, New York.
21:39I'm Adana.
21:39I'm an artist, and I'm from Atlanta, Georgia.
21:42Welcome to you both.
21:43Now, we just saw Kelsey beat our reigning champion, Jo.
21:46I'm telling you, she's very good.
21:47She's quite the player.
21:48Are you ready?
21:49Are you feeling confident?
21:49Oh, yes.
21:50Definitely, I'm ready.
21:51All right.
21:52So, New York versus Atlanta versus South Dakota.
21:54It's like nothing I've ever seen.
21:58Well, I'm excited to see the three of you play, and we'll kick things off when we return right
22:03here on Scrabble.
22:18Welcome back to Scrabble.
22:20Kelsey just won $3,975.
22:25So, good luck to you all.
22:27She did well, but I feel like you've got a shot.
22:30Do you think you have?
22:31Feeling really good.
22:32Yeah.
22:32All right.
22:33Well, I can't wait to see you in action on our supersized Scrabble board.
22:36Look at that thing.
22:36You know how much that thing cost?
22:39Not much.
22:41But anyway, look at it.
22:42It's great, isn't it?
22:43Now, the three of you are going to battle it out in three rounds of word games.
22:48The player with the most points moves on to our final round for a chance to win
22:53$10,000.
22:54All right?
22:56I know.
22:57Now, the key to being a strong Scrabble player is the ability to look at random letters
23:02and turn them into words.
23:04So, I'm going to present you with racks of scrambled letters and clues.
23:08Your job is to find the words that match the clues.
23:12The first two players to get four correct will move on to the next round.
23:17Are you ready to play?
23:18Yes.
23:18I'm ready.
23:19Then let's play Scrabble.
23:24All right.
23:25Let's get going.
23:26First word always through the center square when it's a new board and there it is.
23:30The clue word is bake.
23:32Here are your scrambled letters.
23:37Kelsey.
23:39Cookie.
23:39Cookie.
23:41Cookie is the right word.
23:42You bake a cookie.
23:44Champion gets started.
23:46One on the board.
23:47Here comes the next word.
23:49Here comes the next word.
23:49From the sea in cookie.
23:51The clue word is vocals.
23:54Here are your scrambled letters.
23:57Madonna.
23:59Choir.
24:00Oh, we're singing your praises.
24:02Well done.
24:04Madonna has one.
24:05Kelsey has one.
24:06All right.
24:06Next word.
24:07The clue word.
24:07Let's have a look.
24:08Through the R at the bottom of choir.
24:12The clue word is mislead.
24:15Here are your scrambled letters.
24:18Kelsey.
24:20Oh, heavens.
24:23Sorry.
24:24I'm going to throw it open for Elon and Adana.
24:26Uh.
24:27Elon.
24:28Betray.
24:29Betray.
24:31Betray.
24:33Betray.
24:34Uh, Kelsey, your anxiousness betrayed you.
24:38It did.
24:39It did.
24:40Well done.
24:40Nice pick up, Elon.
24:41Okay.
24:41One a piece.
24:42The next word.
24:44Through the B in betray down to the bottom of the board.
24:47The clue word is gravel.
24:49Here are your scrambled letters.
24:53Elon.
24:54Pebble.
24:55Pebble.
24:56My favourite Flintstone.
24:57Pebbles.
24:59All right.
25:00The next word.
25:02Down through the E in cookie.
25:05The clue word is support.
25:07Here are your scrambled letters.
25:11Kelsey.
25:12Uh, it is...
25:14Sorry.
25:16I'm going to throw it open to Elon and Adana.
25:17Press if you know the answer.
25:20Oh, nobody got it.
25:21All right.
25:22Well, the word is, of course...
25:25Therapy.
25:27Therapy.
25:27I knew that.
25:28I had no idea, to be honest.
25:30I didn't get it either.
25:31All right.
25:31Here comes the next word.
25:34From the T in therapy, the clue word is pear.
25:38Here are your scrambled letters.
25:42Kelsey.
25:43Twins.
25:46Fairy twins.
25:47There you are.
25:47Kelsey has two.
25:48Elon has two.
25:48Adana has one.
25:49All right.
25:50The next word.
25:52Through the P in therapy.
25:54The clue word is choice.
25:56Here are your scrambled letters.
26:00Elon.
26:01Option.
26:02Take that option.
26:04Elon has three.
26:06Adana has one.
26:07Kelsey has two.
26:08So, first person to get to four.
26:11Who's through to the next round.
26:12Okay.
26:12The last word for this board is...
26:14Down through the S in twins.
26:16The clue word is grapple.
26:19Here are your scrambled letters.
26:22Kelsey.
26:23Russell.
26:26Russell.
26:26Yeah.
26:27Well done, Kelsey.
26:29All right.
26:30Let's clear off that board.
26:32Elon has three.
26:33Kelsey has three.
26:34Either one of you guys gets this.
26:35You're through to the next round.
26:37Adana, you need to pick up your game.
26:39I believe in myself.
26:40I believe in you too, Adana.
26:41Starting with a new word.
26:43And obviously it's from the center square.
26:46The clue word is wrap.
26:48Here are your scrambled letters.
26:52Kelsey.
26:53Scarf.
26:56Kelsey wrapped it up.
26:57You're through to the next round, Jack.
26:59There you are.
27:00So, between Elon and Adana.
27:02Now, Elon, you have three.
27:03Adana, you have one.
27:04In order to stay in the game, Adana,
27:06you need to win this point.
27:08Here comes the next word.
27:11Through the S in scarf.
27:13The clue word is disappear.
27:15Here are your scrambled letters.
27:19Adana.
27:20Vanish.
27:21Vanish.
27:22Your troubles disappear because it's vanished.
27:24Still in the game, Adana.
27:26Elon has three.
27:27Adana has two.
27:29The next word is up to the H in vanish.
27:33The clue word is wellness.
27:36Here are your scrambled letters.
27:41Elon for the game.
27:43Health.
27:45Well done, Elon.
27:47You're through to the next round.
27:49Adana, I thought you were going to make a comeback there,
27:51but it just got ahead of you.
27:52I thought.
27:52It's okay.
27:53Thank you for playing.
27:54It was lovely to meet you.
27:55Thank you very much.
27:56All right.
27:57When we come back, Kelsey and Elon will compete with each other
28:00on their way to the big money.
28:02right here on Scrabble.
28:20Welcome back to Scrabble, everyone.
28:22I'm here with Kelsey and Elon, and it's time for these two
28:25players to continue their word battle to see who will be
28:28moving on for the chance to win $10,000.
28:34Feeling good?
28:35You settling in, Elon?
28:36You enjoying yourself?
28:36Yeah.
28:37You're out.
28:38You're against the pride of South Dakota.
28:40Kelsey's from South.
28:41Have you ever been to South Dakota, Elon?
28:43I have not.
28:43All right.
28:44You're from New York, aren't you?
28:45Through and through, yeah.
28:46Yeah, yeah.
28:47I live there.
28:48I've never seen you.
28:50In this next round, you guys will be presented with six racks
28:54of letters.
28:56There they are.
28:56You see?
28:57So the goal is to place the best words on the board.
29:00You will earn the Scrabble point value for each of the three
29:03words that you make.
29:04Remember, this is a game of both vocabulary and strategy,
29:08so don't forget to take advantage of the bonus squares.
29:11You guys ready?
29:12Ready.
29:13Ready.
29:13All right.
29:14Let's play Scrabble.
29:19All right, Kelsey, you were the first to unscramble
29:21four words in round one.
29:23Would you like to go first or second in this round?
29:25I think I would like to defer, and I will go second this round.
29:29Okay.
29:30Strategy is to go second.
29:31So, Elon, you're going to be going first in this round.
29:33Now, to help you decide which rack to play, I'm going to flip
29:36over the highest value tile on each rack.
29:40Does that help you out?
29:41Does that help you make a decision?
29:42I would like to pick rack number four with the H.
29:47Rack four with the H.
29:49Okay.
29:49Let's see what you got.
29:50R-O-H-S-E-D-C.
29:56Okay.
29:57Okay.
29:57You see anything there?
29:58I see chose.
30:00I see chore.
30:01Chores.
30:02Ochre.
30:04All right.
30:05What are you going to play there, Elon?
30:07I'm going to play chore with the C on the double letter and the E on the star position.
30:15C on the double letter, E on the double word score, because it's the first word on the
30:20board.
30:20Gives you a cracking star.
30:2230 points for that chore.
30:25All right, Kelsey, which rack would you like to play?
30:27I would like to go with rack one with the W.
30:33Rack one with the W. All right.
30:36Your letters are A-T-O-I-D-P-W.
30:42Okay.
30:42W. You see anything in there?
30:44I'm seeing a lot of little words in there.
30:46I only see little words.
30:48I'm rubbish at Scrabble.
30:49Dip, wit, ta, and pa in there, but I believe I am going to spell the word pa on top
30:59of
30:59chored with the P over the O.
31:05Pa above the top of chored.
31:07Gives you Po, R, and Lee.
31:10Get a double letter on the A. Gives you a total of 21 points.
31:13Not a bad score.
31:15Not a bad score.
31:16Kelsey has 21.
31:18Elon has 30.
31:19Elon, it's your second turn.
31:21Which rack would you like to play?
31:23I want to take rack six with the V.
31:27Okay.
31:27Let's see what your letters are.
31:29They are R-I-G-E-V-E-T.
31:36I'm seeing give, giver, re-give.
31:44I'm going to play vert above paw, spelling var and ew.
31:48That's a lot of stacking.
31:51Vert gives you var and ew.
31:55Triple letter on the T. Gets you a total of 21 points.
31:59Takes you up to 51 points, Elon.
32:01Nice score.
32:05Kelsey, it is your turn.
32:06Which rack would you like to choose?
32:07I'm going to go with rack five with the Q.
32:09The dangerous Q.
32:11Let's see what you got.
32:12E-T-R-I-Q-R-L.
32:16Well, no U.
32:17No.
32:18No U.
32:18That makes it difficult.
32:19And there's also not an A on the board to put with it, unfortunately.
32:27So, obviously, there's right and rile, tile.
32:31Not necessarily the vowels that I was hoping for with that Q.
32:35So, I am going to spell ire using the I on top of the T of vert.
32:41I-R over the T in vert.
32:44Also gives you eight.
32:45Gives you a double word on the R.
32:47Gives you a total of eight points.
32:49Eight points.
32:50Takes you up to 29 points.
32:52So, Kelsey, you have 29.
32:54Elon, this is your final rack.
32:55You've got 51 points, but Kelsey still has one turn to play.
32:58So, which rack are you going to play?
33:00Well, seeing that I-T, I might want to do a word with bit across.
33:06So, I'm going to take rack two with the letter B.
33:09Your letters are E-S-A-I-B-R and E.
33:16That's not too bad.
33:17Not too bad.
33:18I'm seeing things like saber and bias and base, baser, braze.
33:29I'm going to spell saber going over Kelsey's ire.
33:37You played saber.
33:39Also gives you bit, er, and re.
33:42Gives you a double letter on the S.
33:44Double word on the R.
33:46Gives you a total of 27 points.
33:48Takes you up to a score of 78 points for the round.
33:53All right.
33:55So, here's the situation, Kelsey.
33:57This is the last round.
33:58You need to score pretty well.
33:59You need 50 points to pass you along and make it to the final round.
34:02Let's look at your last rack of letters.
34:04A-R-Y-N-E-V-O.
34:08So, I'm seeing words like nary or very, ovary.
34:17Well, unfortunately, I don't think the letters and point values are going to get me to where I would like
34:21to be.
34:22So, I'm just going to go ahead and use that triple word score above the S in Sabre and use
34:26the word yeas.
34:29Yeas down from the triple word onto the S in Sabre.
34:32Gives you a triple word on the Y.
34:34Now, you needed 50 points to take the game or pass Elon.
34:39You got 21 points.
34:40So, that brings you up to 50 points, which means you didn't quite make it.
34:44Elon, congratulations.
34:45You're through to the final round of the chance to win $10,000.
34:49Kelsey, thank you for playing.
34:50And you're not going home empty-handed, you did win $3,975.
34:56When we come back, we'll see if Elon can find the right words to bring home $10,000 right here
35:01on Scrabble.
35:02We'll see you when we come back.
35:18Welcome back to Scrabble, everyone.
35:20I'm here with Elon, who's our last Scrabbler standing, who's about to play for $10,000.
35:25Congratulations, my friend.
35:28You've done very well.
35:29A lot of stacking.
35:30A lot of stacking got you here.
35:32Is there any particular word you're proud of?
35:34I think in that one, Sabre really clenched the deal.
35:37Sabre got you over the line.
35:38And here you are.
35:39All right.
35:39Let's see if your strong wordplay can continue.
35:43In this final round, you will have seven chances to play seven words.
35:48You'll earn the Scrabble point value for each word.
35:51And if your seven words total up to 200 points, you will win $10,000.
35:58But look, if you don't make it to the 200 points, you won't go home empty-handed.
36:01You'll be earning $25 for each Scrabble point that you earn.
36:06So every word counts.
36:08All right.
36:08Ready to play?
36:09I'm ready.
36:09Let's get it done.
36:10Okay, Elon, your game starts now.
36:15All right.
36:16Time to play your first word.
36:17Here are your letters.
36:19Good luck, Elon.
36:19Your first rack.
36:21F-O-R-A-N-T-E.
36:25It's looking pretty balanced.
36:27I'm seeing things like front and, I don't know, Thano, Fate, Ante.
36:35I think I'll play front with the F on the double letter and the T on the star position.
36:41Front with a double letter on the F and a double word on the T because it's the first word
36:46on the board
36:47gives you a cracking start of 24 points.
36:49Well done.
36:50Well done.
36:53All right.
36:53You got rid of five letters there.
36:55What letters are you hoping for next?
36:57What are you trying to do?
36:58Maybe a couple more consonants.
36:59I got rid of a lot of them here.
37:01Yeah.
37:02Let's try and stay away from too many vowels.
37:03Let's see what you got.
37:04A-E-G-T-R-T-R.
37:10All right.
37:11So it's not a lot of vowels.
37:14You seeing anything?
37:15I see things like target.
37:17Mmm.
37:19Maybe rage.
37:21Gate.
37:22All right.
37:24So what are you going to play there, Elon?
37:26I'm going to play garrote through the O in front.
37:32Outstanding!
37:33Garrote.
37:34Triple letter on the R.
37:35Triple letter on the T.
37:37And it's a bingo!
37:39It's a bingo!
37:40So you get an extra 50 points.
37:42Gives you a total of 63 points for that word.
37:4687 points in the first two words.
37:48That's fantastic.
37:49Well done.
37:49Okay.
37:50Whole new rack then.
37:52O-O-A-T-D-H-N.
37:58That's a few more O's than I was expecting.
38:02There's only two O's.
38:04Ooh!
38:04I mean, ooh is an option here.
38:06Something like hood.
38:07Mm-hmm.
38:08I can see.
38:09I'm going to play hood going down next to the E with the H on the double word.
38:14H down from the E in garrote.
38:17Gives you double word on the H for he.
38:21Double word on the H for hood.
38:23Gives you a score for that word of 26 points.
38:27Takes you up to 113 points for three words.
38:33So, look.
38:34This is your fourth word.
38:36You need to get 87 points.
38:3887 points to get to the 200 and win 10 grand.
38:41All right.
38:41Let's see what we got.
38:42A-T-N-O-R-I-Z.
38:49I can see things like za.
38:51I can see something like trues.
38:54Towards the bottom there.
38:56I'm going to play the word trues through the second O in hood.
38:59With the Z landing on the double letter score.
39:03Trues with a double word on the T and a double letter on the Z.
39:08Gives you 48 points for trues.
39:11That was outstanding.
39:12Well done.
39:1348 points added to the 113 you already have.
39:17Gets you up to 161 points.
39:23Three words left.
39:25You've got to get 39 points to get over the 200.
39:28Okay?
39:29And get to the $10,000.
39:30Here are your next set of letters.
39:33A-N-I-L-A-D-V.
39:38I do see on my rack something like vandal.
39:41Maybe I could find something a little through the G.
39:45I have an I-N, so maybe an I-N-G word.
39:48I'm going to play laving with the L on the double letter score.
39:51Going across to the G in Garot.
39:54Put it up there.
39:55Laving across to the G in Garot.
39:58Gives you a double letter on the L.
40:00A double word on the I.
40:03Gives you a total of 22 points.
40:06Takes you up to 183 points.
40:08183 points.
40:10Two words to play.
40:13So over the next two words you need to get 17 points.
40:16All right, let's see what we got for the next rack of letters.
40:19A-D-Y-E-E-Y-L.
40:25Well, you wanted a Y.
40:27I did want it.
40:29See a few good options down at the bottom there.
40:32See things like leddy.
40:34I'm going to play leddy down in the bottom left,
40:38hooking the Y for hoodie.
40:42Leddy gives you a triple word on the L.
40:44Double letter on the D.
40:48You needed 17.
40:50You got 45.
40:52Congratulations, Elon.
40:53Woo!
40:54You just won $10,000.
40:57Come here, man.
40:58You won $10,000.
40:59And you're going to be joining us next time for the chance to win more money.
41:03We will see you next time on Scrabble.
41:06Bye-bye, everyone.
41:15Bye-bye.
41:18Bye-bye.
41:21Bye-bye.
41:25Bye-bye.
41:29Bye-bye.
41:31Bye-bye.
41:33Bye-bye.
41:33Bye-bye.
41:33Bye-bye.
41:33You
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