COLOMBO: It was a historic day for Pakistan scrabble contingent taking part in the 6th Sri Lanka International Scrabble Championship when its youngest member, nine-year old Hasham Hadi Khan, created a new world record by scoring an eye-popping 878 points against Matheesha De Silva of Sri Lanka.
According to the Guinness Book of world records the highest score ever recorded in a scrabble match was made by Toh Wei Bin of Singapore who scored 850 against Rick Kennedy of Scotland in 2012. No score of 800 plus has been witnessed in an international tournament.
Hasham’s scores included a triple-triple play for his word “Gruntles” and included three more bingos in “Sheriat, Retsina and Headers.”
Poor Matheesha was reduced to a mere spectator as Hasham threw a flurry of bingos while cleverly challenging off all invalid words that Matheesha tried in a desperate attempt the reduce the deficit.
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