{"id":1689,"date":"2012-08-17T09:41:49","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T09:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forcespenpals.net\/p=?1689"},"modified":"2012-08-17T09:41:49","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T09:41:49","slug":"us-youngster-caught-cheating-in-scrabble-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forcespenpals.net\/gb\/news\/us-youngster-caught-cheating-in-scrabble-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"US youngster caught cheating in Scrabble championships"},"content":{"rendered":"
Scrabble is a great game and one that can see people get really competitive.<\/p>\n
But one player took his desire to win too far at the recent national championships in the US.<\/p>\n
He was caught dropping blank tiles – which can be substituted for any letter when forming words – on the floor in an attempt to hide them.<\/p>\n
The youngster, who is under 18 years of age, was ejected from the 350-strong event as a result of his actions.<\/p>\n
National Scrabble Association executive director John Williams said it was not the first time that cheating had occurred during Scrabble.<\/p>\n
"It does happen, no matter what. People will try to do this. It's the first time it's happened in a venue this big though. It's unfortunate," Mr Williams observed.<\/p>\n
He went on to note the Scrabble world is abuzz with excitement because of it, which is something that couldn't have been said too often in the past.<\/p>\n
Posted by Mark Wilkins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The young man was hiding blank tiles to use in later rounds. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n