A new play has been discovered that theoretically scores the most points in a standard board - 1786 points using the NWL23 lexicon. Read on for more!

On Feb 3, OSC held our second hybrid house tournament and potluck at clubmate Gerda’s house. For the first time, I tried out the woogles IRL tournament management software, which worked out great, with player scorecards that included personalized QR codes for seamless and ultra efficient electronic score entry.

Let’s attempt to dispel some common notions about our bots, and about luck in general.

I made improvements to the IRL tournament experience and ran a successful tournament in Montclair, NJ using Woogles tournament mode. Read more to see these new improvements.

Applications to join our board are open until the end of the year!

We have a couple of “how to run a tournament” guides on Woogles that give an in-depth breakdown of how our tournament mode works, but Rameez volunteered to write a post about his own experiences running clubs and tournaments on Woogles. This should be a great addendum to those guides.

We update the Woogles app regularly. We’ll begin to post more about these updates in the blog to keep our readers informed.

Woogles now supports playing in the Catalan language, using the open-source DISC2 lexicon. Read more about it here.

Twelve intrepid Wooglers played the inaugural World OMGWords Day tournament last night. See how it went!

I ran a real-life tournament using Woogles tournament mode. While we’re still making tweaks to make it ready for prime-time, things worked out great! Plus we built some scripts to automatically generate scorecards for our players.