The dark art of playing world-class Scrabble

You might enjoy playing Scrabble with your family and friends, but when you get outside your social bubble and run into a serious or even tournament-grade Scrabble player, well, that's a whole different world.

When the top players gathered in Torquay, England, last year for the World Scrabble Tournament (this year's contest should have been this week, but has been cancelled thanks to you-know-what), it was to use 'words' like these in their games: dzo, ch, foyned, ghi…

Yep, that's right; a whole lot of words that, let's be frank about this, are not words.

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