The club meeting for Thursday, December 15th, has been cancelled due to inclement weather.

We’re back! The club has resumed normal operations as of October 2022. Please join us on Thursday evening at South Common Community Centre to participate. 

Masks are encouraged, but not mandatory, as per the City’s protocols. Let’s be mindful and caring toward each other. Club Directors are striving to make improvements to the experience for all participants.

We have returned to play on the following dates:

2021 dates

• November 18 – Pre-register here
• December 2
• December 16
• December 30

Each Thursday session will begin at 7:30PM ET.

Protocols

• Preregistration is required.
• Proof of vaccination is required to enter the building. Make sure you have it with you! Your downloadable certificate with QR code will be scanned by City staff.
• Masks must be worn at all times inside the building. 
• There will be no snacks at this time. 
• Clean your tiles/equipment. 
• If you’re not well, or have been in contact with someone who isn’t well, don’t attend. 

Effective immediately, I am suspending Mississauga Scrabble Club in-person weekly meetups until further notice. The session for Thursday, March 12 will be cancelled, and the situation will be continuously assessed.  

• We will resume when it is safer from a public health perspective, and also when it is more comfortable. Meetups full of doubt and concern would not be as enjoyable. Many doctors are warning the community that it is worse and riskier than we think, both to ourselves and others.
• Instead of weekly meetups, a biweekly teleconference will take place starting March 19. The purpose of the teleconference will be to focus on how to make Scrabble activities better than ever upon its continuation and well into the future. Details on how to connect to the teleconference to follow.
• We will also immediately investigate ways to foster and improve online play such that the elements of human interaction, welcoming new players, fairness and friendliness are encouraged, especially in the case that the present crisis persists. 

Temporarily cancelling Scrabble club might be disappointing to many of you, and probably seem *overboard* to others. But let’s see this as an opportunity to improve the health and wellbeing of our club long into the future. 

The Mississauga SCRABBLE® Club will be CLOSED on Thursday, December 29th and will resume play on Thursday, January 5th, 2017.

The Mississauga SCRABBLE® Club Annual General Meeting was held on Thursday, September 29, 2016. Below are notes from the meeting.

The club meeting for Thursday, March 24th, has been cancelled due to inclement weather.

In July, The Mississauga SCRABBLE® Club will hold its weekly meetings at 7:30pm at South Common Community Centre at 2233 South Millway in the Youth Room.

On Thursday, April 9th, 2015, we’ll be celebrating the Mississauga SCRABBLE® Club’s 22nd Anniversary!

This event will be held at the Erin Mills Church Centre at 3535 South Common Court at 7:30pm.

We intend for it to be an extra special day and want everyone to be there.

There will be:

• Delicious eats. Feel free to bring in something tasty to share (no obligation, of course)
• Additional PRIZE$ to go along with our weekly bonus bingo and theme word
• New faces. We hope to get some new visitors to join us for the occasion.
• Some reflection on the history of the club
• Group photo
• SCRABBLE® Brand Crossword Game

If you can’t make it at 7:30pm, just show up as soon as you can to enjoy the festivities.

Spread the word!

On July 3, 2014, Mark Edelson scored 714 points in a game against Sinna Vijayakumar.

This incredible high score ties Craig Rowland for the all-time club record for high game in the OWL lexicon. Geoff Newman holds the record for high Collins game at 751.

Mark had 4 bingos, AIRLIFTS, LAYERING, triple-triple PItCHIER, STANCHER and a strong opening play of QUAGGa.

Below are photos Mark’s record-tying game and Craig’s high game.

Congratulations, Mark!

Word-Grabber.com is a website featuring tools and articles for philologists and word game players. Recently, they conducted an interview with Club Director Shan Abbasi.

Visit the Mississauga SCRABBLE® Club on Thursday, December 5th at 7pm for Scrabble fun for players of all skill levels! It’s a great opportunity to make new friends and play the world’s greatest word game. This is a FREE event. Snacks and refreshments will be provided. Learn how to play and pick up some tips to increase your word power. We have some special activities and prizes in the works! SPREAD THE WORD!

On Thursday, April 4th, 2013, we’ll be celebrating the Mississauga SCRABBLE® Club’s 20th anniversary!

We intend for it to be an extra special day and want everyone to be there.

There will be:

• FREE entry
• An early start. We’re inviting everyone at 7pm!
• Delicious eats. Feel free to bring in something tasty to share if you wish (no obligation, of course)
• Additional PRIZE$ to go along with our weekly bonus bingo and theme word
• New faces. We hope to get some new visitors to join us for the occasion.
• Some reflection on the history of the club
• Group photo
• SCRABBLE® Brand Crossword Game

If you can’t make it at 7, just show up as soon as you can to enjoy the festivities.

Spread the word!

A recent study done by Joshua Lewis about updating point values of the tiles using his software Valett has been the discussion of Scrabble enthusiasts around the world.

Club Director Shan Abbasi talks to Sandie Rinaldo of CTV News to offer his views about why the tile values should remain as they are.

For more on this topic, read an in-depth analysis by Stefan Fatsis, author of Word Freak.

On December 13, 2012, Geoff Newman and I played a game using the Collins lexicon.

Geoff triple-tripled twice leading to a final score of 751-425. SOPRANI/REDEFEAT/AVENTRES#/SIGMOID/dISABUSE for him, NOTAIRES#/eRICOID/BEPAINT for me. He even missed a sixth bingo of URGENTLY. With my last rack, I tried LIONETTE* because I knew LIONET#, so that was the only challenge.

Impressive, Geoff!

The Club met for the first meeting of its twenty-first season on Thursday 6 September. We were blest with 24 in attendance and that kept the rounds even all night. Here are some highlights I saw as I passed up and down the tables between games:

Dave Krook had two identical racks in his game against Mark Edelson. Dave’s magic rack was DEILRS?, and he bingo-ed with DERaILS and REDIaLS. Scrabble props to Dave for bingo-ing with anagrams of the same word. There must have been eleven A’s in that game.

The two Jasa [1], Broersma and Ubeika, played the same word three times. No blank was involved: Jason Ubeika, also known as Juju, or by the various Scrabble players of the world as Jasonu, played PIU twice. PIU across then followed by that ghastly IU dump PIU reading down from the same P. Jason Broersma, also known by the various Scrabble players of the world as Jasonb, played PIU in a separate spot elsewhere.

That’s the two P’s and three of the ghastly U’s being used to play PIU PIU and PIU. They could have tried for PHEW too.

Craig Rowland had a bingo-fest with eight rack-clearers. He opened with MISReLY on his first move against Shauna Petrie. His plan was to try to lure Shauna into a challenge by having her mistake his play as MISeRLY. Shauna held him, but was smart not to challenge. This was a risky play as Craig slotted the Y on the DLS. Any -ING extension to the TWS would yield an easy 45 points, but that never happened. He reasoned that it would be rare for a player to have ING sitting on his or her rack at that moment, and it would not be worth the 45 points in the end if either he or Shauna fished for it.

There are only a few bingo anagrams that look like misspellings of more common words. Some that come immediately to mind are STRONGYL/STRONGLY; FORAMEN/FOREMAN; GLOBINS/GOBLINS; SALVIAS/SALIVAS. However, since tabloids posted photos of Miley Cyrus inhaling hits of salvia from a bong, this word has now entered common parlance and all the kids are talking about it. Send in more “apparent anagram misspellings”.

Joseph Bowman celebrated his 44th birthday and gave two-dollar coins to all those players who scored 44 points in a turn. Congratulations to birthday-boy Joseph as well as all of the money winners: Steve, Yvonne, Andy, Sophia, Martyna and Joseph himself times two.

Craig

[1] The only acceptable plural of Jason

Those of you who watch Star Trek may know that April 5, 2063 was (and will be) First Contact Day. That’s the day that the Vulcans (i.e. Spock’s race) visit Earth and introduce themselves to humans for the first time, an event prompted by mankind’s discovery of faster-than-light (FTL) travel.

So, it’s fitting that this day should coincide with our club’s very own first meeting that happened on April 5th, 1993. Yesterday marked the Mississauga Scrabble Club’s 19th anniversary.

In celebration of the occasion, Craig selected a couple interesting themes. First to honour the number 19, we looked to our nation’s 19th Prime Minister. She was our first–and to this day, only–female Prime Minister and appropriately, she served her stint at Sussex Drive in the summer of ’93. With a fixed election looming (fixed in the sense of timing, not scandal), her opposition Liberals’ supporters managed to OUTVOTE the Progressive Conservative crowd and thus her term came to an end. And that is the story of how our honourable, hearty soup Prime Minister, Kim Campbell, allowed me to win this week’s theme word with a meager 12-point play.

The second anniversary theme came from #19 of the Toronto Maple Leafs. That’s Joffrey Lupul, a player who managed to have a fairly good season on a losing team. LUPUL is a palindrome, a word that spells the same backwards and forwards. Therefore, the best palindrome play of the night would win an additional prize. There were a few plays, AA, OHO, ABA, but the winning PALINDROMIST was none other than Vijayajiv. He managed to play three palindromes all in one turn. This is impressive in and of itself, but to make it even better, he played three SYMMETRICAL palindromes! He played AWA and formed AMA and WOW at the same time. A man, a plan, a canal–Vijay!

More impressive feats were accomplished on this night. The bonus bingo letters were KI, and Dave played TALKIES for 68, while Priya, perhaps with a greater Killer Instinct, played its anagram LAKIEST for 78. I feel privileged to live in the LAKIEST country in the world.

Three of the 17 MSCers in attendance managed to win all three games of the night; Mark H, Mark E, and Priya! Congratulations.

In his three victories, Mark Edelson managed to put up a season high 1523 points! Easily taking him over the 12000 threshold, crossing the finish line in our race at warp velocity. For this contest, he wins $20.12 on the MSC’s 2012 celebration. Well done, Captain.

Live long and prosper.

Our next tournament will be held on June 16, 2012! Click here for complete details.

The Mississauga SCRABBLE® Club will hold its weekly meeting in an alternate location for one evening on Thursday, March 15, 2012. The Club will convene at Mississauga Valley Community Centre at 1275 Mississauga Valley Blvd (map below) at 7:30pm in the Hazel McCallion Auditorium. The following week, we will return to our normal location.

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