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A Scrabble lagoon is an area of the Scrabble board devoid of tiles completely surrounded by words that connect snuggly in a loop. Witness the world's largest ever Scrabble lagoon below.

Also of interest is how few turns were played, 21 total, in spite of a greater number of tiles than in the conventional game. By way of comparison, consider that in the 2008 National Scrabble Championship, held in Orlando, Florida, the average for the 28 "Table 1" games was 25.1 turns per game. Those are the best players on earth; they are using only 100 tiles; and they always know in advance exactly what letters will come up in the game.

The board is presented twice. The second grid has all the tiles flipped across the diagonal. This makes words that were vertical on the original board horizontal on the flipped board. The net result is that you can read all the words played just by scanning left to right as you normally read, and simply ignoring anything going on vertically.

+                   +    +       R           +
                                 A   E        
      L                          C   R        
   *I OATmEAl   N*          *    K HURRY  *   
    M O    WOODIE           IMBIBE   A O      
    B S         S               ERRANT U      
    I E         T          LOOSED    AR  V    
    BED         L           A         I  I    
RACKER          EM          T         BOOZY   
     R        C  A          m      p     I    
   H A   pUNIER  N          E      U    BEE   
   U N     E  U HE          AW     NEGATER    
 ERRATA    G  I E           lO     I          
   R  RIB  A  SOILAGE        O     E          
   YOU  O  T  E N            D    CRUISE  E   
        O BE   ZINC          I        O Z N   
      VIZIER    E           NESTLE  HEINIES   
   *    Y E   ENSIGNS       *    MANE L N I   
                                      A C G   
                                      G   N   
+                   +    +            E   S  +


Season: 07
Game: 015
Date: January 28, 2009
Players: LYNN DON 

Total points: 630 
Total turns: 21
Average points per turn: 30.0

Total tiles played: 105 
Unplayed tile: Q 
Power tiles: 11  Q Z Z _ _ _ S S S S S 
Anomalies:  4B  18E  no F  no J  no P  no X
Percent expected vowels: 112%

Words on final board:

ENSIGNS
HEINIES
NEGATER
OATMEAL
SOILAGE

CRUISE
ERRANT
ERRATA
IMBIBE
LOOSED
NESTLE
PUNIER
RACKER
VIZIER
WOODIE

BOOZY
HURRY

MANE
ZINC

BED
BEE
RIB
YOU

AR
AW
BE
EM
HE
LO

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