Eric Harshbarger's SCRABBLE® Website

If you are interested in learning how to play Scrabble competitively, you should vist the website of the North American Scrabble Players Association.

My entry at cross-tables.com.

Images of many of my final board configurations of tournament games since late 2023.

Some Memorable Games/Plays

• High Win: 680 (vs. 248). Played on 10 November 2024 in Auburn, AL.
• High Loss: 495 (opponent: 502). Lexington, KY on 3 May 2025 (My opponent actually documented this game with a YouTube video.)
• High Tie: 444 Fort Myers, FL on 16 February 2025.
• Most Bingos in a Game: Twice I have played six bingoes in a game:
  1. The first time occurred in the High Win game mentioned above. TAURINE, DEAREST, BRANCHES, HAUNTED, SCOTTIE, ELUTION.
  2. The second time occurred on 3 May 2025 in Lexington, KY. I opened the game with four bingoes in a row. I had a total of twelve plays in the game; half of them were bingoes. IMPUTES, NEURONAL, REGALERS, MONOFILS, UNIRONED, TRAILING.
  3. On 31 May 2025 I was on the losing end of a game with Joey Krafchick in which we combined for 9 bingos, a new tournament record in the world of tournament Scrabble.
• Most Bingos in a Row: 4, as mentioned in the "Most Bingoes in a Game" item, above.
• Longest Word Played: I have played many 9-letter words (including this disconnected MULTITONE to win a game at the Nationals in Dayton, OH). At the end of 2024 in Albany, NY I played the bingo STANDING, and on the very next play front-extended it to form the 12-letter word WITHSTANDING.
• Highest Scoring Play: 203 (BACKSIDE, 2024 Scrabble Players Championship Early Bird). This was a 'triple-triple' play. I have played several triple-triples in tournaments, and in one game played two: FILTERED and BARITONE (Asheville, NC, November 2008) (that game was actually against David Gibson, literally one of the best Scrabble players ever... also, in that game GASLIKE* is actually a phony word). My highest scoring play that was not a triple-triple was VIZIRATE for 130 points (also against D. Gibson). My highest scoring non-bingo play was ZETA for 95 points (New Castle, DE, December 2018).
• I also enjoy keeping track of words that I play that require the use of a blank due to the frequency of letters in Scrabble. Examples:
  • INKLIKE was played in this game, and this required the use of a blank since there is only one "natural" K in the set of tiles.

Here is a graph (click for a bigger size) that plots my player rating after each of the tournaments I have played in.

Here's an ultra-geeky webpage that is the nexus of a few of my interests: Scrabble, role-playing games, and computer programming.